President Trump walks to Marine One to leave the White House on Jan. 14, 2019. By Philip Rucker , Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email Bio Follow Carol D. Leonnig , Carol D.
Meanwhile, the Trump lawyers sent a steady stream of documents and witnesses to the special counsel, chipping away at Mueller’s justification for needing an interview with the president. In assessing whether to pursue such a high-stakes move, the special counsel was not operating with complete autonomy. That was a contrast with predecessors such as Kenneth Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton and had broad leeway under the now-expired independent counsel statute.
In the final months of the probe, there was upheaval in the department’s leadership. Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the investigation. He was replaced temporarily by his former chief of staff, Matthew G. Whitaker, who was publicly critical of the special counsel before joining the department.
President Trump listens during a briefing on drug trafficking in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 13. Weighing a legal showdown The president was initially inclined to sit for an interview with Mueller. He thought he could deliver a convincing performance and put a swift end to the probe.
Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said that some of what Trump’s legal advisers were hearing from Mueller “raised our suspicion that this is a trap, rather than a search for more information.” Attorney General William P. Barr leaves his home on March 26. Robert W. Ray, a former independent counsel now in private practice at Thompson & Knight, said Mueller’s team would have had to weigh whether a subpoena could survive the court challenge that was all but certain to come from the Trump White House.
“That’s a major fight, and you have to decide whether, in the country’s best interests, it’s worth it,” Ray said. Still, the Trump’s legal advisers felt after the March meeting that a subpoena threat hung over the president. Giuliani said that roughly 80 percent of the Trump team’s interactions with the special counsel’s office were handled by Jane Raskin, who has known both Mueller and Quarles for years. She knew Mueller from her time as a federal prosecutor in Boston, while her husband had worked with Quarles.
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JonUPS_ You guys need to start looking into the Koch Bros.
If by mystery you mean obstruction of justice, then okay
Because after a $25mm inquiry, Mueller found the obvious, that Trump wasn’t clever or smart enough to even try to pull off a Russian conspiracy, and if he didn’t do it, there wasn’t much to obstruct. And it takes a pretty high bar to depose a sitting President for little reason.
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No it doesn't. Fake news.
Fair and professional journalist would speculate Muller did not have evidence of crime to subpoena Trump. Because there is reason to doubt the special council other reason.
You guys are just making fools of yourselves. More than you have already
Because no collusion, no obstruction!
Here's another question the post is not asking because they only report not investigate as they claimed for over 2 years. Why would Trump be interviewed by a special counsel investigation HE AUTHORIZED. Oh I don't know but I might speculate, CAUSE HE AUTHORIZED IT ?
IN OTHER NEWS: That is one tiny, tiny hand.
I think the aim was to avoid a confrontation that could spiral out of control and leave him stronger if it did not destroy him. Better to ease him out. We should be grateful Mueller was able to complete his fact finding.
More conspiracy theories by the far left FakeNews
For whom
How Hillary Clinton hide 37 pages FBI memo about Rosatom and Hillary Clinton's Crime not mystery. By Big Money. Rosatom UraniumOne HillaryClinton
The only mystery is how you’re still financially solvent. FakeNews
We haven’t seen the entire Mueller report so how do we know Putin’s whore is innocent?
A Mueller myster: How the FakeNewsMedia propagated the RussianCollusionHoax to the American people and profited $$ immensely from it, while Q followers already knew it was a LIE!
Trump's lawyers would be charged with malpractice if they had let Trump answer questions in person. They probability of Trump lying or making stuff up was way too high. Could Mueller subpoenaed Trump. That would have been a long court fight.
'Trump’s legal team conducted a campaign to keep the president from coming face-to-face with federal investigators — fearful he would perjure himself.' Hey MAGA cult, that is not something to be proud of.
Republicans are treated differently. Bill Clinton would have never gotten by with this. Pure & simple.
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