'Everything is on the table' for Trump's testimony before Mueller: report
Source: The Hill
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 02/25/18 01:24 PM EST
President Trumps lawyers are weighing options for his testimony before special counsel Robert Mueller.
Everything is on the table, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing a source close to the president's legal team.
Trump has expressed a willingness to testify before Mueller in the special counsels investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president, who has railed against the Russia investigation and called it a "witch hunt," said hed be willing to speak under oath, but his lawyers have clarified that the details of any potential interview are still being worked out. Trumps legal team is reportedly considering the possibility of providing written answers, having the president give limited verbal testimony or other options.
Mueller reportedly wants to question Trump on his decisions to fire former FBI Director James Comey and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375521-everything-is-on-the-table-for-trumps-testimony-before-mueller-report
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)presidents legal team."
Does this dumb MF realize the first question he answers will be in the form of a lie...................to a federal agent working for the citizens of the country and its is against the law to lie......................this authoritarian wanna be is fucked........................Everything is on the table, .................................
All this sick fucker is doing is trying to forestall the inevitable and playing some game...................I will believe it when he does.
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
FSogol
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paleotn
(17,918 posts)other than to plead the 5th, which is a public admission of guilt.
BumRushDaShow
(129,039 posts)FSogol
(45,487 posts)paleotn
(17,918 posts)SCOTUS spoke to this with Nixon's tapes and the Paula Jones lawsuit.
The President's generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial and the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice,
With the current make up of the court, I doubt they'll change that precedent. So, in the end, his only option is the 5th Amendment, which is really just a public admission of guilt. At least, that's my understanding.
BumRushDaShow
(129,039 posts)but just like what you saw happen with Bannon, he would do the same to stall and force them to take each legal step to get some kind of testimony.
And the issue with Bannon was also regarding claiming "Executive Privilege" for stuff that happened during the "transition" timeframe.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He'll say nothing claiming the 5th or executive privilege.Crooks do that a lot, and jared and vanki will use it to. It really won't matter. They're finished.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and running the Clock. This is his M O, nothing new,and when push comes to shove,he will bail. It is all about his Image and His money.
He is smart stupid,he will never sit with Mueller unless ordered by a Grand Jury.
BTW,did Trump pay the 25 million yet for his fake School? Notice how he is running that clock.
Skittles
(153,162 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)That way he's that much more arrogant enough to hang his own ass.
paleotn
(17,918 posts)No take home test. In person. Under oath. So as to more easily perjure himself. Mueller team will agree to nothing short of that.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)"We are not going to put you under oath because we know you'd break it. We just have two simple questions for you...
Question 1: Are you now, or have you ever been, a communist?
Question 2: At long last, sir, have you no shame?
red dog 1
(27,804 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)My first question is a modified form of the question lots of people were asked by the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy scandal. What they were really asked was if they'd ever been a member of the Communist Party.
My second is the question that finally brought McCarthy down.
We are up against a huge problem: Trump has a large and extremely vicious fan base. The only way we are ever going to be allowed to completely lay out what an atrocious person Trump really is, is to destroy him in the eyes of his supporters. His sexual predation won't work; they probably think he's a superstud and to them a guy who gets lots of sex is a hero. His total ineptitude in business hasn't worked so far. The guy is a crappy landlord with a great PR team. That's all he is. All his fans HATE their landlords, so FSM only knows why they love Trump. There is one thing I think WILL work to cut him down, and that's to prove his "patriotism" is a lie.
Once we turn the guy into a shell of his former self - and Mr. Mueller is doing that even as we speak - the whole sordid truth of his hideousness will emerge.
red dog 1
(27,804 posts)I knew that you were referring to the McCarthy Hearings with your questions.
I agree with all you stated, and it's not only his ignorant, racist "fan base"..but also,
(and probably more important) it's Eddie Munster, The Turtle, and the GOP-controlled Congress who don't give a rat's ass about him being despicable, because he got their big tax scam passed, and he got an ultra-right-wing asshole to tip the SCOTUS to a 5-4 GOP majority, too.
The thing that bothers me most about Shitler's alleged rape of that young girl back in the early 1990s, at one of Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita' parties, is that HE GOT AWAY WITH IT.
It just doesn't seem to matter what the hell he does, he always gets away with it.
[I hope that Mueller eventually "nails the bastard"]
ffr
(22,670 posts)Come on Mr. tRump. Screw your lawyers, you're the Washington outsider remember? Go in there and speak truth to Mueller.
red dog 1
(27,804 posts)"or other options"??
What a bunch of pure bullshit!
kentuck
(111,098 posts)I wonder if a date has already been set??