Trump Proposes Mueller Interview With No Obstruction Questions
Source: Bloomberg news
President Donald Trump would agree to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigators if its limited to questions on whether his presidential campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Monday night.
Trump is demanding in return that he isnt asked questions about obstruction of justice in the probe into election interference, under a proposal the presidents legal team submitted to Mueller, Giuliani said.
The presidents legal team is concerned that Mueller and his staff might believe witnesses who contradicted Trumps account, such as former FBI Director James Comey, Giuliani said. That could leave the president vulnerable to a perjury charge, he added.
Mueller hasnt yet responded to the proposal, Giuliani, a former mayor of New York, said on Monday.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/trump-s-lawyers-submit-proposal-to-mueller-on-interview-terms
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)Fixed it for them:
The presidents legal team is concerned that Mueller and his staff might believe Trump contradicting Trumps account, such as when he WENT ON TV AND ADMITTED HE OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE!!!!!
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)That's a huge precedent, I don't care if he's POTUS, or not.
Is it just me or have his lawyers become more and more bizarre since Ghouliani popped up?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Trump thinks he dictates what investigators and the courts can and cannot do. It's always worked for him before, but it's not going to work for him this time. Little Donnie is used to ordering around local New York judges and lawyers. His celebrity in New York has always guaranteed that they treat him with kid gloves. With Mueller, the gloves are off. Little Donnie is up against a type of law he's never had to endure before, and he - and his lawyers - are getting a little paranoid over it. That makes a whole bunch of "little people" Trump has screwed over in the past, very happy!
Trump is finally going to be held accountable for his words and actions. And no, it isn't just you, concerning Ghouliani. Many pundits believe Ghouliani should be sent back to New York and be kept from commenting on anything to do with Trump. He serves no purpose on Trump's defense other than appearing on talk show after talk show, and always seemingly making things worse for Trump by flapping his huge jowls much too much.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)U. S Attorney's Manual 9-11.150 - Subpoenaing Targets of the Investigation
"A grand jury may properly subpoena a subject or a target of the investigation and question the target about his or her involvement in the crime under investigation... If a voluntary appearance cannot be obtained, the target should be subpoenaed only after the United States Attorney or the responsible Assistant Attorney General have approved the subpoena."
https://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-11000-grand-jury#9-11.150
Also see 9-11.153 - Notification of Targets
"When a target is not called to testify pursuant to USAM 9-11.150, and does not request to testify on his or her own motion (see USAM 9-11.152), the prosecutor, in appropriate cases, is encouraged to notify such person a reasonable time before seeking an indictment in order to afford him or her an opportunity to testify before the grand jury"
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Who knew Rudy was so funny?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Trump probably doesn't want to talk about treason either.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Sorry. now even PANGAIA is starting to laugh, although I know I shouldn't because,. well we might all be fucked.
"Why of course, officer, I will answer questions about why I hit the guy in the head with a LOWES 2x4 if you promise not to ask me about hitting the guy in the head with a LOWES 2x4."
LudwigPastorius
(9,164 posts)Let's test Mueller's subpoena power, shall we?
Hey, Trump, I want to see you try to explain your stonewalling the Special Counsel with your frothing protestations that you have nothing to hide.
Pluvious
(4,314 posts)Ask him about breakfast will be mostly lies !!
But not the Beautiful Chocolate Cake.
That's prolly the truth.
Voltaire2
(13,109 posts)msongs
(67,432 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Hekate
(90,768 posts)C Moon
(12,219 posts)eggplant
(3,912 posts)During the interview, serve him a subpoena.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)The price of tea tariffs in China?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)that golden shower must seem a bit expensive to Don Juan Trump these days.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,590 posts)The only thing that the interviewer would be able to discuss would be about how great the economy was under Donnie Two Scoops. Everything else would be off limits.
I can't understand why CNN turned down this opportunity of a lifetime.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)Which means he is admitting he obstructed justice.
NanceGreggs
(27,816 posts)Like no brown M&Ms?
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)M&M's are so 1980's.....
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)until then I am not holding my breath....................there team, says one thing and then does another...............a prime example of this when the "classified FISA " application was released................the republicans where full of shit, lying misinformation shit, the spy Carter Page, was a asset to the foreign power called the Kremlin.............Page is nothing more and nothing less than a spy..............and he also lied................and is a traitor who was a campaign adviser to the orange hair traitor...............
Malcolm Nance's new book nails this spy ring..........it is a spy ring........
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)What a fuck shit stack.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Your terms are acceptable, but understand the obstruction of
justice investigation goes on...Nothing you say in the interview
will take away from that.
Wonders if the public will get to see it? Give the traitor another
chance to look like a complete loon. Lie like a rug...