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Team Trump Now Wants Mueller to Testify Before Congress in Hopes of a Grilling
The Daily Beast ^ | 05.30.19 7:20 PM ET | Sam Stein, Asawin Suebsaeng

Posted on 06/02/2019 2:56:21 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

“If they allow [GOP Reps.] Meadows and Jordan and few of the others there, they’ll eviscerate him more than they did Michael Cohen,” said Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney during and after the Mueller probe. Giuliani said it would be “emotionally satisfying to have” Mueller testify and that “in terms of the politics of it, I would love to have him testify. I think he’s afraid to.”

The former New York City mayor and current Trump lawyer said he’d spoken to the president both before and after Mueller’s televised statement to the press. Asked to describe Trump’s views, Giuliani told The Daily Beast that all he could say was, “I can sum up his feelings as: Nothing new, no new facts, it’s all smoke and mirrors, so what?” Of Mueller’s conduct, he added: “I’m angrier about this than [Trump] is.”

Giuliani said he would like Republican lawmakers to grill Mueller about matters such as whether his team ever leaked damaging information to reporters and how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was treated in solitary confinement. Other prominent Trump allies said they agreed with the idea that Mueller needed to be called before lawmakers, if only to provide Republicans with the opportunity to pepper him on topics such as the composition of his team of investigators and the evidentiary foundations of his investigation.

“[The Mueller Report was] one of the most dishonest reports ever rendered, and I think the Republicans could take it apart upon examination,” John Dowd, a lawyer who repped the president for nearly a year of the Mueller probe, told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “[Bob Mueller] doesn’t want to go up there. It’s obvious he’s pulled a fast one.” Dowd, who still informally advises Trump and his legal team

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1 posted on 06/02/2019 2:56:21 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

Somebody will have to show me where anybody on President Trump’s team actually said that. To me this is projection from the left consider the source it is total trash.


2 posted on 06/02/2019 2:59:49 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. Isaiah 32:8)
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To: Zhang Fei

The headline is implying Trump didn’t want him to testify before?


3 posted on 06/02/2019 3:00:00 PM PDT by FLvoter
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Is linda graham in the witness protection program? Because he has sure done bumkus as far as investigations. You know, the ones he said he was going to do to expose the origins of the russian hoax.


4 posted on 06/02/2019 3:00:08 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

“Somebody will have to show me where anybody on President Trump’s team actually said that. To me this is projection from the left consider the source it is total trash.!”


5 posted on 06/02/2019 3:05:31 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Frau Mueller? "What do the Clintons, Obama and their Spygate CIA/FBI/DOJ thugs have on you???????")
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To: Zhang Fei

Mueller certainly has a lot of malfeasence to answer for, but then, so do the democrats... But I repeat myself.


6 posted on 06/02/2019 3:06:16 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Grampa Dave

said Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney


7 posted on 06/02/2019 3:07:53 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: Bullish

Mueller already has his doctor’s excuse written.


8 posted on 06/02/2019 3:08:40 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: JoSixChip

When Rudy says it, we will believe it.


9 posted on 06/02/2019 3:10:12 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Frau Mueller? "What do the Clintons, Obama and their Spygate CIA/FBI/DOJ thugs have on you???????")
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To: CincyRichieRich

The quotes, as is typical for Republicans, are muddled. You need to put it in stark terms for a public that’s only going to be given a tiny slice by the media anyway. The question is the Watergate question:
“What did you know, and when did you know it?” In other words, when did you know there was no collusion? The second question is why did you keep going after that? I think the answer is they were sure by the summer of 2017, a couple months after starting and the still-secret further authorization by Rosenstein is everything else.


10 posted on 06/02/2019 3:12:29 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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Finally, Democrats and Republicans have found something they can agree on — both want Mueller to testify before Congress on the Mueller Report. So why isn’t it happening?

If it doesn’t happen soon, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy can help bring it about by publicly challenging Nancy Pelosi to set up hearings on the Mueller Report and then subpoenaing Mueller to attend and testify.

If Nancy refuses, it will look like Nancy is afraid of the truth about the Democrats’ anti-Trump coup attempt, which Mueller will have to divulge under oath or be convicted of perjury.


11 posted on 06/02/2019 3:25:35 PM PDT by humbleexpert
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To: Grampa Dave

Not to me. When Rudy is the main one saying something that indicates a dramatic shift of tactics, it usually turns out not to be the case. Rudy likes to create news, and always has. Yet he continues ‘working for the president’.


12 posted on 06/02/2019 3:27:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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hell, I want the FPOS to testify!!!

first question, exactly WHEN did you know there was no so called collusion???

13 posted on 06/02/2019 3:56:43 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Zhang Fei

Grill first

Hang second


14 posted on 06/02/2019 3:58:04 PM PDT by Regulator (It's cheaper then Gitmo)
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To: Grampa Dave

Seriously - The Daily Beast? That has got to be one of the most far left, conspiracy, Trump hating websites out there. Why is it considered a source?


15 posted on 06/02/2019 4:04:40 PM PDT by HollyB
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There are fatal questions Mueller cannot afford to take the fifth on, and that is what he will have to do, because if he gave honest answers to such questions, his retirement would not be something to look forward to.


16 posted on 06/02/2019 4:12:08 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (The New Day is here! Prepare yourself for "Democratic Totalitarianism!" Beto said so!)
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PUNCH HERE

17 posted on 06/02/2019 4:21:50 PM PDT by onyx
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If he felt like he could hurt Trump, would have already testified. He is faced with if he testifies helping Trump or perjuring himself. Democrats have given him narratives to use, but he’s not buying.


18 posted on 06/02/2019 4:25:20 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Zhang Fei

First Muleface must be taught how to give 4 minute 59 second non- answer. “The gentleman from Ohios time has expired”.


19 posted on 06/02/2019 4:26:44 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 (The left would rather be the leaders of lies, than servants of the truth.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Team America ALWAYS wants to see BM held accountable.


20 posted on 06/02/2019 4:34:40 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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