WSJ: In Mock Mueller Interview, Trump Took 4 Hours To Get Through 2 Questions

[exGOPer]

Trump’s preparations for a potential interview with Special Counsel have not exactly been going smoothly, according to a Monday Wall Street report,which detailed the difficulty the President had making it through a mock interview:

In an informal, four-hour practice session, Mr. Trump’s lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions, given the frequent interruptions on national-security matters along with Mr. Trump’s loquaciousness, one person familiar with the matter said.

Trump’s lawyers have set a May 17 deadline — the one-year anniversary of Mueller’s appointment — to decide whether the President should sit down for questioning by the special counsel, the Journal reported. If Trump decides not to grant Mueller a voluntary interview, it could prompt the special counsel to subpoena him, escalating a legal battle.


Trump last week shook up his legal team by adding on Emmet Flood to replace Ty Cobb, the White House counsel responsible for responding to the Russia probe. Trump also recently brought on former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to represent him personally. Giuliani has taken a more aggressive tone to dealing with Mueller in various interviews with the press.

 

[TRS]

Trump's loquaciousness

 

[Tony Stark]

I wish Muller didnt give Trump the questions beforehand

 

[Cuddles]

I wish Muller didnt give Trump the questions beforehand

From what I remember, that list of questions were potentially from the defense in preparation and they somehow made it sound like it came from Mueller?

Maybe mixing up statements honestly

Also, I like how Trump rambles on and is unable to stay composed on a fake mock interview. Mueller is going to eat him alive if he takes the bench.

 

[TRS]

Also, I like how Trump rambles on and is unable to stay composed on a fake mock interview. Mueller is going to eat him alive if he takes the bench.

Trump should be encouraged by all those around him as he's a self-proclaimed "stable genius"....

 

[jem]

I doubt Mueller directly leaked those questions.
They seemed like notes of a prosecutor's questions.
Why? There were objectionable compound questions.

Which unless Mueller's team purposely desired vague and confusing responses... a prosecutor would not ask questions in that form.

Objection compound. Objection as to form. Objection vague.

Now... sometimes defendants and defense attorneys don't make those objections because they desire a jumbled record... but most of the time experienced lawyers on both sides just avoid compound questions.


However, it makes sense that a note taker would shrink similar questions into compound questions.

Of course the other possibility is Mueller had nothing to do with them.

(or, I suppose there is a small chance they are real and someone on Mueller's team did not care about traditional legal form.)

 

[Cuddles]

From what I remember, that list of questions were potentially from the defense in preparation and they somehow made it sound like it came from Mueller?

Maybe mixing up statements honestly

Also, I like how Trump rambles on and is unable to stay composed on a fake mock interview. Mueller is going to eat him alive if he takes the bench.

Mueller and his team seldom issue public statements and speak mainly through indictments and court filings. In pressing for an interview with Trump, investigators would not provide a written list of questions, which could increase the chances of a leak and constrain prosecutors in their inquiries. Instead, investigators verballyprovided the president’s lawyers with only the subject areas that prosecutors wished to discuss. A Trump attorney then formulated a list of 49 potential questions the legal team believed Trump might be asked — a list that soon leaked to the New York Times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...dab596e8252_story.html?utm_term=.41c09f9ea511

 

[gwb-trading]

I wish Muller didnt give Trump the questions beforehand

You mean that you wish Mueller's office didn't leak the questions to the New York Times beforehand.

 

[Cuddles]

You mean that you wish Mueller's office didn't leak the questions to the New York Times beforehand.

fake news

Mueller and his team seldom issue public statements and speak mainly through indictments and court filings. In pressing for an interview with Trump, investigators would not provide a written list of questions, which could increase the chances of a leak and constrain prosecutors in their inquiries. Instead, investigators verballyprovided the president’s lawyers with only the subject areas that prosecutors wished to discuss. A Trump attorney then formulated a list of 49 potential questions the legal team believed Trump might be asked — a list that soon leaked to the New York Times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...dab596e8252_story.html?utm_term=.41c09f9ea511