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BY CHRIS SMITH
MARCH 21, 2018 6:22 PM
... sending the special counsel a written summary of the White House version of key events ... is intended to get Mueller to narrow the range of a possible Trump interview ...
I think its the nuttiest thing Ive ever heard, says Solomon Wisenberg ... Ive never heard of defense attorneys doing that. If youre Mueller, its highly unlikely you accept what somebodys lawyer said, when that somebody is a subject, at the least, of your investigation. Its just so weird. Its one thing to limit the amount of time, or the location. But when people are interviewed in a criminal investigation, they dont get to narrow the topic.
... Mueller is learning a lot by letting this little passion play over Trump and the interview proceed, says Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney for Alabama. Because theres a lot thats being said publicly, theres a lot thats leaking out from the lawyers. Muellers team is learning a lot through this process about how the Trump team views the world. Im sure Mueller is not drawing out the conversation just for that insight, but nonetheless its a highly informative process. You learn what the defense lawyers think is important, how they might react to certain questions, what theyre worried about.
... I think Trump will chicken out, and his lawyers will dissuade him from talking because hes not capable of doing the homework and staying on track, says Peter Zeidenberg, who was part of the prosecution team in the Scooter Libby leak case and is now a defense attorney in Washington. And I think his side has all kinds of issues. They dont know what Michael Flynn has told the government. They dont know exactly what James Comey and Andrew McCabe have said, what Rick Gates has overheard. Normally you tell your client, Just tell the truth. But the truth could be really bad for Trump ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/the-nightmare-legal-scenario-facing-trumps-lawyers
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(23,853 posts)It is freaking him out
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Interesting point on the article that I was not aware of. You can't subpoena a target of the investigation. So if Mueller gives up without a subpoena, it may mean he plans to indict him.
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,210 posts)You get the idea.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)And a whole prison full of other republicans, either they will get some or all of them, or trump, putin and their fellow gangsters will pull something--- blow up the Empire State Building, start assassinating people, bomb DPRK, commit mass suicide,(now there's a thought) , declare martial law, invade France and Finland, ....who knows, but they will do sonething, to avoid going down.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,481 posts)Pundits and newspeople keep talking about Cheetolini as if he's some kind of normal human being with normal human mental processing. His lawyers are never going to dissuade him from anything that involves moving his lips.
Similarly, every time pundits profess lack of understanding of why Dotardbird does things like refuse to implement sanctions that Congress ordered him to, I just think, "There's no mystery at all, you dodobirds. He's consciously, deliberately, actively a Russian agent. That explains every stupid traitorous thing that he does and that you profess to be mystified by."
No doubt whatever subjects or questions the Trumpzi lawyers resist immediately rise to priority level one for Mueller.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)I have memories of Bush sitting on Cheney's lap and doing his talking dummy testimony. But I think Muller's got something better up his sleeve. The more trump's team dickers and submits, the more they reveal.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Kablooie
(18,571 posts)But I don't believe it.
I expect him to take the fifth and Republicans do nothing.
He'll be just fine.
mshasta
(2,108 posts)Mr RICO comes in
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)He goes in, lies of course, and throws EVERYBODY under the bus. Somehow in his tiny brain, he will exonerate himself by making it EVERYBODY else, not realizing at all, that since he actually is "in charge" it still makes it his fault.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts).
Here's a Todd Rundgren version of Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe Nightmare song.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This isn't like twitter or the State of the Union speech where Trump can take one position, get negative feedback, hedge, then completely walk it all back in the span of a news cycle or two. Trump is also not going to remember from one question to the next what lie he settled on just 30 seconds before, and how that doesn't comport with his previous public statements. A loose cannon can fire off just one cannonball. Granted, that can cause a lot of damage, but it's only the one cannonball. Trump is more of a loose Uzi with a high capacity magazine.* He'll squirt lead in every direction for a long time.
*And nobody gives a fuck if it's really a clip, Poindexter.