You poor weird-moustached goof. Get out before Dump sucks you into his black hole of crazy. Only way to save yourself from the endless degradation in store for you.
“Pay no attention to what the fucking idiot says or does. Listen only to the Trumpsplainers following after to clean up the mess.”
Ah , the translator says …
Nope he needs to stay, because we don’t want Trump not to have “quality” legal representation.
The breathless media coverage of Trump’s “offer” was both sad and hilarious. They know he lies all the time.
Maybe he was finally pivoting!
Well if you didn’t see this coming you haven’t been paying attention. No attorney in his right mind would let Trump talk to Mueller under oath.
But the question of the hour isn’t really whether the attorney is in his right mind.
Perhaps what we have here is Trump’s personal lawyer pointing out another lie.
Supposedly Trump and Alan Dershowitz have been sniffing each other. Dershowitz is telling Trump to stonewall everything Nixon-style.
Dershowitz got rich and famous defending guys like Trump, so I can see him parachuiting in.
Indeed. It was more typical tRumpian bluster - an event that will happen in “a couple of weeks” which in tRump world means never.
“He’s ready to meet with them, but he’ll be guided by the advice of his personal counsel,” Ty Cobb [said]
Apparently not, Ty, but good luck.
What a nightmare of a client. No matter what groundwork you lay, he knocks it over like Lincoln Logs.
When Cobb was asked last year why he took the job, here’s what he said (and I quote):
“If the president asks you, you don’t say no. I have rocks in my head and steel balls.”
Trump has to be handled with kid gloves, lest he lash out and do all manner of mayhem. I suppose he’d fire Mueller if he felt the terms of his testimony were beneath him. For that reason Mueller abstains from going straight to a grand jury subpoena. Me, I’d like Mueller to press his advantage. No man is above the law the saying goes, although Presidents seem to enjoy formal and informal exemptions from some statutes. For instance, there’s an unsettled debate among legal scholars and jurists whether the President can be prosecuted for a crime while in office. But I’ve never read a President can refuse to respond to a grand jury subpoena. He can show up and take the 5th, but I’ve yet to see the case he can just stay at home and tell a court or prosecutor to piss off. It would be grand to see Mueller exercise his grand jury option. All this talk of Trump having a say in the forum he fesses up is dismaying, and leads the public to believe it’s within his legal right to dictate the terms. Actually he’s dictating the terms because the alternative is him engineering Mueller’s dismissal if he doesn’t get his way.
When you’re dealing with Donnie the bottom line consideration is avoiding being sent to the cornfield.
What part of “under oath” does he not understand?
Or is this, perchance, yet another lie from Trump?
And you know , You know just as sure as the sun comes up that they are terrified of him testifying.
It’s a given that he will purger or incriminate himself .
Mueller will be asking him questions he already knows the answer to .
Lying under oath. Perjury .
Game set and match
Bye Bye
Trump was joking… duh
And the advice of his personal counsel will be not to answer any questions. Trump doesn’t have to be under oath for it to be a crime to lie to Mueller.
Despite his attorneys’ careful work to set up an limited interview with Mueller’s investigators behind closed doors, Trump said that he would be willing to talk to Mueller “under oath” in free wheeling comments to reporters.
Not that I’ve read every public utterance by our 45th President, but it’s been the rare statement by him that could not be described as “free-wheeling.”
Also: it seems implicit in Cobb’s mop-and-a-bucket clean-up of a statement that Trump’s been kept out of these negotiations as well. And with good reason, as we can see.