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(11,879 posts)On whether or not 45 returns from Davos.
MLAA
(17,334 posts)2 to 1 he wanders off because he saw a mirror
TexasProgresive
(12,159 posts)Bad boy, Texas Progresive.
MLAA
(17,334 posts)Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)He will request to answer questions in writing. His attorneys could then prescreen any answers for obvious inconsistencies (perjury if under oath) before returning them.
Mueller will not agree to that. If Sessions could withstand a face to face, so can The President. If Trump refuses he will be severely weakened, but the GOP will probably still support him if Mueller keeps what he knows from the public.
mcar
(42,376 posts)Mueller can subpoena him if necessary.
edbermac
(15,947 posts)WASHINGTON Former President Ronald Reagan, in testimony made public Thursday, said he had no recollection of ever being told that profits from Iran weapons sales were diverted to the Nicaraguan contras, and that he never had any inkling White House aide Oliver North was secretly helping the guerrillas.
Reagan, who was subpoenaed by the defense in the upcoming trial of his onetime national security adviser, John Poindexter, neither clearly exonerated Poindexter nor critically undermined his defense. Nor did his videotaped testimony do much to answer questions about who authorized the diversion at a time when such aid to the contras was illegal.
But his deposition did reveal startling gaps in the memory of the 79-year-old former president. In all, Reagan said I dont recall or I cant remember 88 times in the eight hours of testimony taken Feb. 16-17 in Los Angeles.
At one point, Reagan said he could not identify Gen. John Vessey, who served for more than three years as his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At other times, he said he could not identify a picture of contra leader Adolfo Calero, could not recall a shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran in November 1985, had no memory of signing one presidential finding relating to the shipment of weapons to Iran and had only the slightest recollection of signing a second such finding.
He also appeared hazy on the identity of Eugene Hasenfus, an American whose shooting down over Nicaragua helped precipitate the unraveling of the then-secret Iran-contra operation. And Reagan seemed totally unable to recall what the Tower Commission-a panel he appointed in December 1986 to investigate the affair-said in its report three months later.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160156_1_iran-contra-testimony-recall
JDC
(10,135 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)Us, and millions of americans.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)talking to THIS GUY?
MUST SEE TEEVEE!!!
tinrobot
(10,916 posts)...all those Big Macs do not make for a healthy colon.
tanyev
(42,622 posts)bluestarone
(17,058 posts)i'm looking forward to meeting with Mueller
MrPurple
(985 posts)Use the Ken Starr/Clinton standard. I doubt Trump would go 5 minutes without perjuring himself.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)Trump can tell the truth and then he is sunk or he can lie and then Mueller will
have him on perjury.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)dchill
(38,546 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,571 posts)I hope this isn't a Perjury Trap? WTF said that nonsense? I can't imagine him going 20 minutes without perjuring himself.
If there was no "trap" available, and lacking the skills to make one, he'd build a bonfire and jump int0 it.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)I bet he's crapping all over his bed tonight.