Knowing that the questions will be answered by Trump’s lawyers, and being pretty smart lawyers themselves, I imagine that these questions were along the lines of, “Who’s the smartest person ever to be President?” “Did you hire only the best people?” “Why is it that people are out to get you?”
knowing this kind of thing would set off the dotard, would that have been the true purpose for sending the questions over? Not like they had to or were obligated to do in any legal context (note: IANAL). My sense is Mueller is baiting the tRump team into a disastrous move to trigger the legal shitstorm to follow.
I wonder if some questions will be about tweets Trump has written.
I am curious whether this line of questioning could solidify their standing as Presidential statements.
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I am curious whether this line of questioning could solidify their standing as Presidential statements.
[/quote] Didn’t Spicer already do that last year? /s
Duplicate copies of the questions were sent to Davd Dennison, John Barron and John Miller.
But, seriously, whether these were specific questions or areas of inquiry I’m sure it is all of great concern to Trump’s lawyers and great irritation, anger and fury to Trump. Maintaining the right to ask follow up questions is what Trump’s lawyers will want to negotiate away, but Mueller’s team will not give this up.
I’m still chuckling in horror at the discussion some days ago about whether his lawyers would argue that an in-person interview would amount to being a so-called perjury trap from which their client should in all decency and justice be excused since he’s a total constant fucking liar who lies like he breathes. That’s the essence of our situation right there, isn’t it?
I’m sure the questions are a perjury trap and that Mueller’s team already knows the answers. Of course, even if the Dotard’s lawyers craft the answers and try to get him to memorize them, that will be beyond his capacity to do.
Flagged.
The only way to stop Trump from lying is to tape his mouth shut with duct tape.
It’s like the ruby slippers; the way home was there all the time.
And put oven mitts on his hands. Taping his mouth doesn’t stop his widdle pinkies from spewing Twitter lies…
And his thumbs. My God, I hate that thumb thing he does. It’s like the gates of hell swing open and you can see the roaring fires of his idiotic self-regard in one inane gesture that he CONSTANTLY DOES.
Maybe Mueller will concede that the words in the answers don’t have to be more than six letters long.
One of the worst parts of the nightmare is the fact that, up until now, people who had never given this POS more than two seconds of brain time in their entires lives (having not watched the inane television shows or paid attention to his “career”), now have to spend countless hours having to see, hear, and speculate upon his vileness. It’s time we will never get back and it’s another aspect that makes me insane. Okay, it’s only 9:15 …
There is undoubtedly many levels at work here; both in the timing of this as well as in the questions themselves.
But they won’t be. They are negotiating the terms for Trump to sit down and be interviewed directly by Mueller. Which means Trump will be the one giving the answers.
The larger idea here is to show that they aren’t going to be setting up any sort of “gotcha” perjury trap. The reality is, they don’t need to…there are tons of questions they can and should ask him that result in either perjury or admittance of guilt. And Trump is pathologically unable to stop himself from lying anyway.
Look for Trump and/or his lawyers to refuse the sit down, either this week or next. On grounds of…something. Whatever the reason given…the real answer is the on above. Trump WILL perjury himself, and probably repeatedly.
This is also why I believe the decision to get rid of Mueller has now been made.
He did, but Trump’s lawyer has now opened up another Pandora’s box on that issue, by saying he was the one who tweeted out about Trump knowing that Flynn was lying to the FBI…on the official Presidential twitter.
That of course, immediately brings into question any standing of his tweets as Presidential statements, and raises the question as to why, given what Spicer clearly stated, a private attorney was using the President’s twitter account.
EDIT TO ADD: Neither of these questions were raised by the MSM, btw. They simply accepted that story and moved on like good little stenographers. And the second question, in light of Spicer’s statement…is kinda huge.
I predict the Mueller firing within the next month with the strategy that his base will not remember/care by November. Not that they care now, but …
It’s been said before, Mueller only asks questions to which he already knows the answers. He wants to get the Current Occupant to lie on the record. Buckle your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy week.
which is why it wouldn’t surprise me if some mondo indictment drops in near future to blunt the attack.