Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Trump Says It’s ‘Unlikely’ He’d Sit For Mueller Interview – Talking Points Memo

It's essay to move past the VSG's statements as confused, ignorant, contradictory, etc.  But the situation is much worse than that.  He does state his actual position - there should be no interview because there is no collusion - at any level.  Not only is that patently untrue (did you get an email message inviting you to a meeting to discuss the Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton and the Russian government's support for your campaign?) 

More importantly this is a refusal to allow the government's investigatory and prosecutorial arms to do their work.    - gwc
In Rambling Response, Trump Says It’s ‘Unlikely’ He’d Sit For Mueller Interview – Talking Points Memo
by Matt Shulam

Trump repeated eight times in his response that no collusion had yet been found between him or his associates and Russia. (Congressional and federal investigators’ probes are ongoing.)

He also highlighted the conditions under which Hillary Clinton was interviewed in July 2016 by the FBI during the bureau’s investigation of her use of a private email server. Trump incorrectly asserted that the FBI agents interviewing Clinton didn’t take notes — they did — and asserted “a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was.”

After he bobbed and weaved, the President gave his real answer: “We’ll see what happens. Certainly I’ll see what happens. But when they have no collusion and nobody has found any collusion, at any level, it seems unlikely that you would even have an interview.”

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