Giuliani says Trump won't sit for Mueller interview unless all FBI source documents can be reviewed
Source: The Washington Post
By Josh Dawsey and John Wagner
May 29 at 3:12 PM
President Trumps lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Tuesday that Trump will not agree to an interview with the special counsel until prosecutors allow the presidents legal team to review documents related to the FBIs use of a source to interact with members of Trumps 2016 campaign.
We need all the documents before we can decide whether we are going to do an interview, Giuliani said in an interview with The Washington Post, using Trumps term spygate to refer to the FBI actions, which former officials have said were well within bounds.
Giulianis latest demand further ratcheted up the pressure that Trump and his lawyers are trying to place on special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs team as his investigation into alleged coordination between Trumps campaign and Russia reaches a key juncture.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump lashed out at the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt on Twitter, casting Muellers probe as partisan and saying it could amount to MEDDLING to the detriment of Republicans in this years midterm elections.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-says-trump-wont-sit-for-mueller-interview-unless-all-spygate-documents-can-be-reviewed/2018/05/29/38abc456-6372-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Giuliani that is
Maeve
(42,282 posts)you said it so well!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)nothing else.
Imagine that WAPO has documented in little over one year not 3 lies, not 30 lies, not 300 lies but THREE GOD DAMN THOUSAND lies.
And yet he is still supported by about half the country.
Boy are we fucked.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and, according to Rudy Giuliani himself, a president must testify if hit with a subpoena
louis-t
(23,292 posts)or in prison. Your choice.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)G.
F.
Well, I think you can figure out the third one.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,148 posts)obstruction
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)This is BS on G's part. Only during trial during the discovery phase, I am guessing that perhaps some of these documents would come out.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)I mean the republican mouthpiece for Comrade Casino* has lied about everything else. I suspect he's lying about this so-called "demand" as well. It fits the repulican pattern. I think The Rudester is just employing a standard republican propaganda technique of flinging shit against the wall with a pathetic (and grossly unethical) hope that a gob or two will stick somewhere.
* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,585 posts)Since when the subject (target?) of an investigation get to look at all the evidence before he's questioned? I hope Mueller subpoenas his ass. Let's take it through the courts and see just how much a president can hide behind his office. Even if he wins, the "can he/can't he?" speculation for future presidents will have been established, and if we get another president who thinks the rule of law doesn't apply to him everyone will know the rules of the game.
CincyDem
(6,355 posts)...we want to know what you know so we know where we can lie, cuz we're gonna lie, we just want to make it a well crafted lie.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)By so many millions of Americans.
The inmates are indeed running the asylum.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)Today she was not to big to FIRE.
Asshole is going to find put the same thing
Soon enough
Review ALL the evidence AGAINST him.....
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)Then he will re-take it.