Trump: "I would love to speak. I would love to. Nobody wants to speak more than me ... But..."

[Miles Archer]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday shifted his position over possible talks with U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying his lawyers have advised him against any talks but that he would submit to questioning if it was “fair.”

Trump has repeatedly said he wanted to talk to Mueller, a fellow Republican investigating alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign.

“I would love to speak. I would love to. Nobody wants to speak more than me … because we’ve done nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “But I have to find a way to be treated fairly.”

“If I thought it was fair, I would override my lawyer,” he added.
Trump also defended Rudy Giuliani, who he recently hired to represent him in the matter. The former federal prosecutor, however, raised a number of questions about Trump’s actions and motivations in a series of media interviews this week.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/trump-says-cant-talk-mueller-unless-fair/

[Doodley]

1. He always has to find somebody else to hide behind or somebody else to blame.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. He is lying of course in that he doesnt want to talk to a living soul and tell the truth

about anything, but I truly believe he would love to talk to Mueller especially if on camera.

Dumbshit thinks that since he has managed to trick the media over and over by simply lying and being so dumb the media thought he cant be that dumb, that he could then easily also trick Mueller and the rest of us.

He is dying to do that.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. He said the same thing about releasing his taxes.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. Yes, he wants to "speak" (babble). but never to testify. eom

[Yonnie3]

5. "The Spider and the Fly" seems appropriate.

and it might just work.

<snip>
The Spider turned him round about, and went into his den,
For well he knew the silly Fly would soon come back again:
So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner sly,
And set his table ready, to dine upon the Fly.

Then he came out to his door again, and merrily did sing,
“Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, with the pearl and silver wing;
Your robes are green and purple — there's a crest upon your head;
Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead!”

Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly,
Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by;
With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew,
Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue —
Thinking only of her crested head — poor foolish thing!
At last,
Up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast.
He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,
Within his little parlour — but she ne'er came out again!
<snip>

I copied this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spider_and_the_Fly_(poem)

[duforsure]

6. Which really means...

Trump's a liar because he's scared shixtless, and knows he can't, and if forced he'll do the same as others , I don't recall, the 5th, and more to not talk to him any if he can. That's why Mueller is now having to force the issue with a judges help. trumps just a serial liar.

[gratuitous]

7. Trump's ever-shifting standard of fairness

Translation from his weaselspeak: Trump will never be interviewed by Mueller or his team.

Nobody ever asks Needy Amin what he means when he talks about fairness. This is a man who's entire life has been a free ride, from his inherited money to his consequence-free fecklessness. Someone else always pays the price for his sins. What would such a man regard as "fair"? Continuing to get away with his crimes. Nothing less. If a price must be paid, others should pay it. It's only fair.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. The only way I'll even remotely trust this baboon is ...

testifying under oath, plain and simple. Should be easy to do, eh?

W/ RUMP, he's been caught in lies before under oath from what I hear in his numerous lawsuits in NY/perhaps other places too.

Preferably, I prefer to ignore even talking to RUMP or listening to him any longer. I would consider RUMP a hostile witness, and thus should be treated as such.

Too many lies.

[Cartoonist]

9. What does he mean by "fair"?

My guess is that he only wants to be questioned by Ivanka.