Seeing speculation on Twitter that Team Trump, maybe Giuliani, leaked the Mueller questions

[highplainsdem]

It's been generally agreed that Mueller's team DOESN'T leak.

Team Trump would like to change that image, paint Mueller and his people as responsible for a major leak.

I've also seen speculation that the questions were leaked by Team Trump to try to gauge public reaction to what Mueller is trying to find out.

And some speculation that the leaked questions might be in some way witness tampering, letting other people still being questioned know what questions Mueller wants to ask the president.

[rzemanfl]

1. Maybe Dowd leaked them. n/t

[highplainsdem]

2. John Dean's comments on this (separate DU thread):

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210561672

[highplainsdem]

3. David Cay Johnston tweet:

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[highplainsdem]

4. Satah Posner tweet:

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[highplainsdem]

5. Norm Eisen tweet, with yet another theory as to why Team Trump would leak this:

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This almost certainly comes from team Trump--current or past members. Why would they leak? Pure speculation but I think they need help in persuading Trump NOT to talk to Mueller, and are counting on the outcry. They may be afraid to oppose on own since Trump wants 2talk.

[FakeNoose]

6. Assuming that Cheeto will lie when he answers these questions

... what do his lies tell Mueller?

We know Mueller already has the answers, so Cheeto's lying answers will be a big tip-off. Am I right?

[highplainsdem]

7. Benjamin Wittes tweet:

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[triron]

8. Bet Guliani is in on it.

That guy is a twerp.

[highplainsdem]

9. Another David Cay Johnston tweet:

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10. This is just another attempt at obstruction.

[mr_lebowski]

11. Watch, by tomorrow AM Dump will be furiously tweeting "Mueller Leaked Classified Infoz!!!"

And even though nothing there is in any way 'classified' I'd be totally unsurprised if our conspiracy-loving media, rather than dealing with the COMPLEX story ... i.e. what do these questions MEAN, etc ... they'll jump onto the "WHO REALLY LEAKED THE QUESTIONS!!!" storyline ... which is exactly why Dumps people released them in the first place.

It to Distract, and to give him a possible excuse to fire Mueller.

Unless the Times has SIGNED paperwork re: attribution to someone assc'd with Trump, the mystery may rage on anyways because some will question whether the NYT is 'protecting Mueller'. Which is stupid because if it were him, he could've protected himself by not releasing them ... but logic is out the window in Dump's USA, so ...

Although, I'd guess it's somewhat possible they were leaked by a Trump-lover ... who's working for Mueller. A 'spy', if you will. It's possible ... little 'last ditch attempt', little 'hail-mary' if you will.

Again, it'll be stupid because nothing in those questions is any way 'secret' info but Dump doesn't even know the difference to begin with and even if did, he'd lie about it, so ...

I don't have the best feeling about what's going to happen with this particular 'story' at this moment in time. Hope I'm wrong, but ... I don't think it 'helps us' in the end.

[GusBob]

12. Only the answers matter. And Trump is never going to answer under oath

The questions were leaked so he could lie about them on Twitter

He is not going to answer under oath

[highplainsdem]

13. Lawrence O'Donnell just said he thinks Trump's people leaked the questions.

[snort]

14. If Mueller is as sharp as we think he is

then they gave the trump team a list of questions with a few extra ones on it. That way you know they leaked it.

[triron]

15. knr