Why Trump really wants his Mueller interview

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The president, who's pushing his lawyers to let him meet with the special counsel, has a long history of dealing with investigators directly.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/trump-mueller-new-york-766212

It was the summer of 1980, and Donald Trump, a rising star in New York City real estate, trekked to Brooklyn to sit down with the Organized Crime Strike Force. The still-lanky developer arrived alone, with no attorneys by his side, and willingly submitted himself to all of the investigators’ questions.

The FBI investigation involved a person Trump needed to ensure the speedy construction of Trump Tower: John Cody, a union boss who was being investigated for suspected mob ties. The FBI subpoenaed Trump after getting a tip that the developer had promised Cody’s supposed girlfriend a luxury apartment spread in his signature tower.

In going it alone with the investigators, according to Trump biographer Wayne Barrett, the future president tried to recast himself not as an adjunct to Cody’s scams but as a victim himself of a shakedown.

Now, as Trump continues to push to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller — against the advice of his attorneys — the president is putting to use his same old box of tools developed during a lifetime of legal squabbles in New York City: trying to talk or cooperate his way out of things. But while he’s using the old tactics he once employed over a real estate fight, he’s also on unfamiliar turf, where the stakes of the investigation stretch far beyond any barrier he ever encountered in his business life.

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[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

1. BS

He does not want to sit down. This is all a bunch of BS.

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2. more from the article:

In 1979, for example, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn were pursuing a criminal investigation into how Trump had obtained his option to develop Penn Central rail yards. In that case, he also agreed to meet them alone, in his father’s real estate office on Avenue Z. Trump, the target of a grand jury, spoke to a prosecutor alone for 90 minutes, denying any payoff.

According to Barrett’s “Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth,” Trump, throughout the session, was “at ease and talkative.” The investigation never got to the point of an indictment, and it remained a secret until Trump wrote about it himself in his autobiography “Surviving at the Top.”

In the 1980s, when Trump expanded his real estate holdings into Atlantic City, he played the same game. His first partners along the boardwalk had ties to the Mafia, relationships that were complicating his licensing deals. On his own, Trump decided to approach the FBI and tell it he was willing to be an informant — once again, trying to assume the role of victim.

And in what has been described as the “battle of the '80s,” Trump took on the tenants association at 100 Central Park South, a building he bought in order to demolish, save for the pesky problem of rent-regulated tenants he inherited in the deal. In that dispute, Trump also approached the head of the tenants association, shocking him by explaining he wanted to meet without his lawyer to try and iron out their differences.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. Reminds me of a kid getting held back from a fight by his friends, who

really doesn't want to fight. And realizes his friends will NOT let him go. So they dial up the theatrics.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Prediction.....Trump is NOT going to talk to Mueller about anything. ..

Trump will try to set the conditions, but he will fail..

No way will Robert Mueller have this wrapped up by September 1st. Any interview with subjects of an investigation do not go unrecorded.

If Trump wants to play hardball with Mueller, Mueller indicts Don Jr. for lying to Congress and conspiracy.

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5. Trump can't cooperate his way out of this.

They would just force him to resign.

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6. trump thinks he's gonna bullshit Mueller...therefore, I think don should talk to Mueller