This is out of the blue and I’m trying to make sense of it on the fly.
Lowell is no dummy but he’s not god’s gift either. I don’t think he would’ve allowed his client to be interviewed except on questions and topics where he was a witness and where he could make statements that were truthful and not inculpatory. That said, there’s no way you go into a Mueller q&a and come out without telling the entire story, even if you have your lawyer beside you. These guys are that good. “He answered every question” could mean ‘he gave an answer to every question’ even if that answer was ‘I exercise my privilege against self-incrimination’, or ‘I won’t answer until you say the magic word’.
The thing about Lowell is if you go through his list of high profile clients, a lot of them were indicted: Menendez, Edwards, Abramoff, Rostenkowski, McDade, Keating and a number pleaded guilty and served time.
They’re looking to see whether there was collusion with Russia in the in the campaign, and whether or not anybody in the campaign was involved, and if that violated any law,” Lowell said. “And they’re looking at this broad topic that they call, or the media calls, obstruction of justice
This quote is basically vapor. It points to two topics that are so broadly construed when we know Mueller asks questions across several specific topic areas with great specificity. Something is amiss here. Lowell isn’t telling the full story and is being intentionally obfuscatory.
It’s quite possible Kushner entered into some type of cooperation agreement. What strikes me as odd is that Kushner was talking with Mueller over the same period that Trump has been fiercely resisting talking to Mueller. That seems like something Trump wouldn’t want to see happen. Lowell is smart enough to know that if Kushner goes in there and lies, his client is done. If Kushner told the truth, then that’s trouble for Trump. Did Trump know that Kushner talked to Mueller? Are there interests necessarily aligned? Did the fall of the Cohen-Broidy-Nader axis give an opening to Kushner to cut deals with Qatar and free himself of debt? Did he just play his father in law like a fiddle?
I’m sort of thinking out loud here, but that’s what my initial thoughts are.