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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe real reason Mueller hasn't called Ivanka Trump
But former prosecutors and Justice Department lawyers said the fact that she has yet to be tapped and that Muellers team, according to people familiar with the case, has not yet requested any documents related to her says more about Muellers risk-averse process than it does about her lack of involvement in the events underpinning the Russia inquiry.
That someone so close to the major events under scrutiny would not be interviewed is unusual, former prosecutors and Justice Department lawyers said. But Muellers decision to steer clear of the first daughter at least for now is a signal of his dont poke the bear until you have to strategy.
Mueller would know that trying to interview Ivanka Trump would be like lighting a match to the highly combustible Donald Trump, said Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor who reported directly to Mueller when he served in the U.S. attorneys office in the Northern District of California. The team would want to wait to the last possible moment, if at all, before taking that step.
Calling in Ivanka Trump for an interview, former Justice Department officials and legal experts said, would be risky primarily for two reasons: It would give the public the perception that the prolonged investigation has reached the point of harassing the presidents family members, giving Trump more ammunition to decry how unfairly he and his family are being treated in an investigation he has already deemed a witch hunt.
And it would carry with it the very real possibility that the reactive president would go nuclear, according to a former federal prosecutor, once again raising the possibility of pardons or toying with the idea of firing the special counsel altogether.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/ivanka-trump-mueller-russia-probe-563169?cid=apn
poli3
(174 posts)how Trump might react. The real reason he's saving Ivanka is because he wants to take down Jared, and is trying to figure out how Ivanka can be used as bait to get Jared to admit guilt.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... to ask her questions.
Get it in their minds they already know the answers to the questions and make em sweat bullets
RockRaven
(14,959 posts)Junior, Ivanka, et al. that day, while Trump is doing the interview. It will make his blow-up at Ivanka getting subpoenaed look indistinguishable from post-interview-consciousness-of-guilt.
global1
(25,241 posts)I hadn't heard Pence being grilled. Is Mueller saving him as well?
John Fante
(3,479 posts). ..for an interview... would give the public the perception that the prolonged investigation has reached the point of harassing the presidents family members... "
Only if by "public" you mean Trump's basket of deplorables. Fuck 'em.