Donald Trump’s lawyers are open to having the president sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller, according to a senior White House official, as part of a wider posture of cooperation with the special counsel’s Russia probe.
If Mueller doesn’t request an interview by Thanksgiving, Trump’s lawyers may even force the issue by volunteering Trump’s time, the official said. The White House believes such an interview could help Mueller wrap up the probe faster and dispel the cloud of suspicion over Trump.
A meeting with Mueller could bring serious risks for Trump—exposing him to questions about everything from potential obstruction of justice over his firing of FBI Director James Comey to what Trump might know about Kremlin support for his presidential campaign.
But the official suggested that the White House has no reason to stonewall Mueller.
“Whatever happens with regard to whether or not, or how, the special counsel might want to interview the president, there’s no reason to expect that would be combative,” the senior White House official explained.
Trump told reporters this spring that he was “100 percent” willing to testify under oath about alleged Russian ties to his campaign. But even if he has nothing to hide, Trump’s unpredictable nature and willingness to bend the facts poses headaches for his legal team as it strategizes for a possible sit-down with Mueller. One angry or untrue statement could have devastating political and legal consequences for the president.
Okay so let me look into my crystal ball and predict what will happen after this sit down takes place.
One, Robert Mueller catches Donald Trump in multiple lies and the investigation immediately moves to the prosecution phase.
Or two, Robert Mueller catches Donald Trump in multiple lies and Trump freaks out and tries to get Mueller fired, at which time the investigation moves to the prosecution stage.
So either way, PLEASE let this meeting take place.
P.S. Do you think it's possible that Trump's legal team is turning on him, and WANTS him to perjure himself?
At this point that would not surprise me at all.
https://mobile.twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/918449526222016512
ReplyDeleteDo you think Mueller will nail his ass and he goes to jail along w/the others?
ReplyDeleteNo. He's over 70 and his ailing health prevents locking up his rotting ass.
DeleteThe most probable explanation to me is that his legal team is as stupid and inept as Trump himself is.
Delete@2:38 PM How old and sick was Dennis Hastert?
DeleteAnd George ryan and didn't his wife die while he was in jail?
Delete2:38 maybe Joe Arpiao can pardon him, ha ha. My first thought was that his legalteam want to be off the hook and if Trump directly talks to Mueller he will get the information directly and get him out of office which is why they would force a meeting in the next few weeks.
DeleteI think Mueller will put him off and that's a good strategy from a prosecutorial point of view. The timing is Mueller's and I suspect he is making sure ALL of his ducks are in a row. This is just DJT trying to get him off his game. I don't think Mueller will blink, and he shouldn't.
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
Agree.
DeleteWhats up Tick Tac?
DeleteYou sure are an all knowing expert on Mueller's every move and play, he should probably hire you as an assistant.
:)
DeleteTick, tock. GeorgiaPeach
@2:39 PM GP sure does cause you to get your panties in a wad.
Delete2:39 & 3:21 currently playing reach around with each other ..
DeleteTake some more tic tacs peachy lol.
DeleteIt will help in your world of self delusion lol.
@7:46
DeleteBet you'll be the one choking on your delusions, bless your heart. But then, ignorance is its own reward. ;) Enjoy.
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GeorgiaPeach
3:45 & 7:46 are self-pleasuring themselves about their trolling prowess.
DeleteMr. Mueller hasn't said 1 word through all of this, instead just getting all of his ducks in a row and tightening the noose. Why would he want to talk 1 on 1 with Trump, who will only lie about what was said in another "he said - he said" conversation, just like with Comey, Corker, etc? The longer Mueller waits the more worried, desperate and unhinged Trump will become. I truly believe this will ultimately have a good result for our country.
DeleteYou all seem to believe that Mueller's 'task' is simply to take Trump out off office. I have news for you. That is not his task.
DeleteWHY DOES TRUMP WANT AN INTERVIEW WITH MUELLER BY THANKSGIVING?
ReplyDelete¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1. Trump will probably gain 100 lbs on Thanksgiving and wants to stay out of sight?
Or
2. Are Trump and his lawyers panicking and want Trump to have only one meeting with Mueller by Thanksgiving?
Why? The more time Mueller has to collect evidence against Trump, the worst it becomes for Trump.
What do you think Trump and the White House want?
I think maybe once Trump has given his only one interaview to Mueller that is it.
We cooperated with Mueller and no there won't be another interview when you discover more incriminating evidence after thanksgiving!!!
Or, they will intentiionally claim tainted evidence.
DeleteDrumpf ejaculates up to five falsehood and outright lies each and everyday. People are becoming innoculated against all his lies. What harm could a dozen more under oath cause?
ReplyDeleteCorrect. It's not the lying that will move him out of office, it's most likely the crazy that will do him in.
DeleteThat takes Congress growing a set of balls, a majority Republican Congress that is seeming to be likely to stay majority Republican through the next 8 years, and I don't see that happening during this first term, perhaps they will step up during his second term when they have nothing to lose.
No, ejaculations are great realeases of stree. Vomit more closely resembles what The RUmp does. or flinging feces, like the shitgibbon he is.
DeleteSo far Trump has paid shit for the terrible things he says and does. I can't see that changing. The Russian Haterbots still go after his critics and he has never been forced to account for himself, he's allowed every day to merely contradict what shit he said the day before.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I can't see that changing, Mueller or no Mueller.
K.O.
ReplyDeletehttps://video.gq.com/watch/the-closer-with-keith-olbermann-is-mueller-trying-to-stop-trump-from-pardoning-people?c=series
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Yep. Olbermann is on the right track. I also think Trump wants to do some fishing on what he has on the mini-Trumps & Jared.
DeleteTrump must want to look co-operative, Like he has nothing to worry about. He is so innocent and all.
ReplyDeleteWho knows? His lawyers?
I doubt this is their idea, but anything is possible. They may be beyond caring if they win or lose in this.
If it doesn't go as Trump plans, he will blame anyone except himself. Lawyers expect some kind of pay day or they owe him. They know he stiffs a lot of people. So they've signed on for that possibility. He isn't getting quality legal representation, they all deserve each other. No one knows how things will go.
Trump may have plans to attack another country and a few more controversial dramas that will keep distractions alive. He will want to look like he is in control of the Muellar drama. I hope he does talk on the record and public. It all seems too crazy.
The Daily Caller
ReplyDeleteWhite House Lawyer Denies Trump Team Is Considering Interview With Mueller
October 12th, 2017
White House attorney Ty Cobb is pushing back on a report Thursday that President Trump’s attorneys are considering preemptively offering Special Counsel Robert Mueller an interview with Trump....
Cobb said that he’s not sure that Mueller will need to interview Trump as part of his investigation....
While any interview with Trump would be granted in hopes of removing the cloud of suspicion hanging over his presidency, meeting with Mueller could carry legal risks for the Republican.
“Nobody in the White House would be this stupid,” Cobb told TheDC....
LOL. I love it when people's $hit shows up to bite them in the ass.
ReplyDeletehttps://apnews.com/dfc7c33ab847439f8403b41dac1df008/Former-Trump-aide-Bannon-had-ties-to-Harvey-Weinstein
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GeorgiaPeach
Donald Trump’s bizarre and suicidal new endgame for dealing with Robert Mueller
ReplyDelete...Trump is now strongly considering the idea of volunteering to testify for Mueller, according to a new Politico report (link). This would be an extraordinarily risky move even if Trump were innocent and mentally sharp – and we all know that he’s neither. If he inadvertently gives away key details, it exponentially increases the odds that Mueller can figure out how to nail him and his underlings. If Trump slips up and tells one demonstrable lie to Mueller, that’s a prosecutable crime in and of itself. And as we’ve all seen lately, Trump has essentially gone incoherently senile to the point of hallucination.
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/endgame-donald-trump-mueller/5469/
Mueller is no dummy.
ReplyDeletedRumpf and his lawyers, however....
Trump unleashes himself from would-be handlers, lashing out mornings, nights and weekends
ReplyDeletehttp://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-kelly-20171010-story.html
Another one soon to bite the dust.
ReplyDeletehttps://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/12/politics/roger-stone-house-intelligence-committee-subpoena/index.html
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GeorgiaPeach
Pretty soon Trump will be demanding that we address him as, “His Yuge, Beautiful, Greatest, Lord of seas, the sun, the moon, and the stars and all that he sees, his excellency, the most brilliant, the most noble, Donald J. Trump, the Leader.”
ReplyDeleteOh sure we certainly will
DeleteFuck Facebook.
ReplyDeletehttps://amp.businessinsider.com/facebook-russia-data-fake-accounts-2017-10
Probably shouldn't have done that.
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GeorgiaPeach
"Facebook scrubbed potentially damning Russia data before researchers could analyze it further"
DeleteFacebook scrubbed thousands of posts shared during the 2016 campaign by accounts linked to Russia.
The removals came as a Columbia University researcher was examining their reach.
Facebook says the posts were removed to fix a glitch."the company had fixed a glitch in the analytics tool - called CrowdTangle - that Albright had used.
"We identified and fixed a bug in CrowdTangle that allowed users to see cached information from inactive Facebook Pages," said Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman."the question becomes more complicated when considering the ethical obligations of a company whose tools were exploited by a foreign adversary to try to influence a US election."he doesn't think "any platform has an independent or ethical obligation to run a research playground for third-party data analysts." vs " that Facebook's "credibility as a global social platform and its responsibility as an internet giant require it to fully embrace an independent, urgent and public review of the facts."
"his mission when he downloaded the last 500 posts shared by six accounts that Facebook has confirmed were operating out of Russia. Those accounts - Blacktivists, Being Patriotic, Secured Borders, Heart of Texas, LGBT United, and Muslims of America - were among the 470 pages Facebook shut down in September as part of its purge of "inauthentic accounts" linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency." content including memes, links, and other miscellaneous postings was shared over 340 million times between the six accounts."
"an analysis of their combined posts would likely reveal that their content was shared an estimated billions of times during the election."
3. Robert Mueller catches Donald Trump in multiple lies after which Trump tweets that he is no longer under investigation and anything to the contrary is fake news.
ReplyDeleteOh, and during the interview Trump pulls every trick in the book to intimidate and threaten Mueller into closing down the investigation. Not to forget, the minute Mueller starts to ask sensitive, nerve hitting questions, Trump shuts down, calls off the interview and storms out like a two year old.
Oh BS. NO contact with that liar unless he is on the stand under oath in a court of law. NObody can trust the yuge liar of the century.
ReplyDeleteFunny!! America hopes Mueller removes the toxic blight in the white house before Thanksgiving. No meeting will be needed.
ReplyDeleteWhy would Mueller want to talk to him? Except for his confession and plea of guilty of treason, espionage, obstruction of justice and a lifetime of being a liar.
ReplyDeleteBackground check chief has 'never seen' mistakes and omissions at level of Jared Kushner forms
ReplyDeleteThe head of a government bureau responsible for clearing background checks told lawmakers Wednesday he has "never seen that level of mistakes" when asked about numerous omissions in Jared Kushner's security clearance application.
Charles Phalen, the director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, a newly created division within the Office of Personnel Management, made the comment in response to a question during a House subcommittee oversight hearing.
Democrats have called on the White House to revoke security clearances granted to Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, and Ivanka Trump over reports of their use of personal email accounts and Kushner's multiple updates to his security clearance questionnaire, known as SF-86, for failing initially to include meeting with foreign officials.
Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois asked Phalen, "can you recall if there has ever been an applicant having to submit four addenda detailing over 100 errors and omissions being able to maintain their security clearance once those errors and omission have been identified?"
Phalen said he has not seen "the breadth" of all applications "but I have never seen that level of mistakes."
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/jared-kushner-background-check-form/index.html
And if your daddy-in-law isn't DJT?
Deletehttps://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/isaac-lanier-avant-staffer-security-clearance-form
Too bad.
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GeorgiaPeach
OT?"“as we have previously stated, Mr. Kushner’s SF-86 was prematurely submitted and, among other errors, did not list any contacts with foreign government officials. The next day, Mr. Kushner submitted supplemental information stating that he had had ‘numerous contacts with foreign officials’ about which he would be happy to provide additional information. He submitted that supplemental information to the FBI and is cooperating fully with its background investigation.”"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/investigators-have-never-seen-anything-like-the-number-of-omissions-on-jared-kushners-background-check/
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/the-kushner-familys-money-pit-manhattan-tower-is-on-track-to-lose-24-million-this-year-alone/
DeleteSurely Trump Wii just lie about what they both said in a private meeting. Drama for Trump, which he lives for.
ReplyDeleteMueller is smarter than that.
Politico published the story at 5:00am. Trump's main attorney sent an email after the story was published.
ReplyDeleteJohn Dowd, who initially declined to comment for this story wrote an email after this article published, Dowd said: “Totally false!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Guess who’s getting subpoenaed tomorrow in Donald Trump’s Russia scandal
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/politics/guess-subpoena-donald-trump/5474/
FEMA makes a big promise to Puerto Rico and undermines president: ‘Don’t listen to Trump’
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/fema-makes-a-big-promise-to-puerto-rico-and-undermines-president-dont-listen-to-trump/
Pence and the generals have paid the legal team off. THis is a quiet miltary coup against The RUmp.
ReplyDeleteNo, but I think it's possible that Trump believes by using his own persuasive personality (like he did on Americans who believed him) that he can convince Mueller to go easy on him. I think Donald is insisting to his lawyers for that and they probably think "well, we have nothing to lose!".
ReplyDeleteEveryone has to give in to the loser, bullying, mentally sick narcissist-in-power sooner or later or they're fired!
He thinks hes going to get away with lying. Orange is in for a rude awakening. So far in his life theres been no rill and serious consequence for his lies.
ReplyDeleteAlso, pretty obvious that NBC must be about to publish a devastating 'real' news story on DJT after his tweet calling them 'fake' and worse than CNN. Must be a doozy. Can't wait.
ReplyDeletePutin calls him daily and advises him. Putin is still involved. Don't forget. The Republicans are so damned desperate for a win, they sanctioned all of this.
ReplyDeletePutin is a old tool and will be used. Putin and Donald can hide together while evading the masses.
DeletePutin is a user. He lies. Steals. Cheats sheet $$$.
DeleteHe needs to go. Bring back tradition that was sold to the highest bidder a century ago. Bring them all home to Russia. Money stays in USA.
9:12 Prince Harry is rumored to move to USA? Hmm...
Deletemr Kelly came out to reassure us that he is not going anywhere and does not directly handle trump and his defective personality disorder.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way Mueller would even consider a private meeting with ANY party potentially connected to anything Mueller is investigating. I laughed when I read that "offer" from Humpty Trumpty's lawyers.
ReplyDeleteHe is NOT James Comey!