Ah, no wonder my Crayola stock is up today.
“There still has not been a deal struck for Trump to sit down for an interview with Mueller’s team…”
Mueller: “Sphinctersezwut?”
Trump: “What…?”
Mueller: (Snickers)
Mueller has prepared a particularly impressive feast …
Soo. … it’s important to set up the table …
Maybe Kanye was there today to help with that. He has some writing skills.
Translation: his attorneys cannot just ask Trump the questions and write down his answers…
So…what is the point of this exercise?
I have 100% faith that if Rudy is involved drafting the Answers, the final work product will boggle both the imagination and credulity.
If Trump’s lawyers are drafting the responses, I assume there will be no Random Capitalization or ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS.
OT, but in many file photos of Mueller, I see this gent in the background. They’re both usually looking pretty badass, though admittedly in this photo, not so much. Out of sheer curiosity, who is he?
Spoiler alert:
All answers will be in capital letters, with multiple explanation points, maximum 280 characters, with the phrase “NO COLLUSION!!!” appearing at least twice.
Has Mueller given up on an in-person interview with trump? He’s flipped everyone he’s indicted and then some - though I’m not sure about Ginger Honeypot. Since he’s already flipped Flynn, Manafort and Cohen, maybe he doesn’t need to interview trump anymore.
I’m anxious to see how this ends. Do they suddenly arrest everyone involved? The Cambridge Analytica group, the NRA group, Erik Prince and the middle eastern crowd, Jarred and Ivanka… Or, does he arrest them one by one? I suspect his report will identify trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. Now that trump’s boy is on the SC there is no way to indict a sitting president.
Does Trump even consider Rudy to be a legit lawyer? Even Trump knows better. He likely envisions Rudy as an actor playing the role of a lawyer on tv. He just wants somebody with a law degree to go on tv, throw out insults, and obfuscate Trump’s bad actions.
the special counsel’s inquiry into any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 election
I think we can safely replace the word “any” with “the extent of.” It happened. We know of at least one meeting where Trump’s son and his campaign manager met with Russians to influence the election.
I’d also replace the word “collusion” with the word “conspiracy.”
This ought to be cited in every appeal of a conviction based upon verbal statements given by defendants to prosecutors.
I predict that Mr Trump will screw this up even with the help of his lawyers.
I am not sure what Mueller expects to get out of this. I suspect every question will be answered with one of two types of answers: 1) presidential privilege 2) an evasive hollow response that sounds like answer if your not paying close attention but says nothing substantive and weaselly enough to avoid perjury claims.
Trump has said enough contradictory things in public about his collusion that it’s going to be hard for even his lawyers to draft something that doesn’t conflict with at least some of his previous statements.
Open book final, cribbing and cheating allowed. That means you, Roo-dee!.
Quit fucking around, Mueller. We need to see some of those traitors frog marched off to jail awaiting trial. Give those fucking Trump shithead kids a few nights in the slammer and they’ll break immediately.