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Trump’s Lawyers Argue Mueller Has Not Met Threshold For Presidential Interview
Hot Air ^ | January 31, 2018 | CNN

Posted on 01/31/2018 10:10:30 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike

https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/01/trumps-lawyers-argue-mueller-not-met-threshold-presidential-interview/

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewmccabe; christopherwray; crookedbob; fbi; jamescomey; mueller; muellerinvestigation; muellertrump; perjury; peterstrzok; robertmueller; steeledossier; trump; trumpmueller
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1 posted on 01/31/2018 10:10:30 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Given all the doubts about the integrity of this investigation, POTUS should refuse on that basis alone.


2 posted on 01/31/2018 10:11:38 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
There's nothing to be gained and everything to be lost when you agree to be interviewed by a Federal prosecutor in a matter where you already know you've been the target of illicit government surveillance.

I can pretty much guarantee you that the guy who posted this Twitter message never had any interest in sitting down for an interview of any kind with any law enforcement official:


3 posted on 01/31/2018 10:15:08 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

To say it the way the lawyers have, it is insulting. But may be correct that no real crime has been uncovered except among democrats who have a sick hatred of President Trump.


4 posted on 01/31/2018 10:15:13 AM PST by Rapscallion (The tragedy of politics is that it can make people hate each other.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

It is time for this investigation to be shut down and a new counsel to be appointed to investigate the management and these investigators.


5 posted on 01/31/2018 10:17:20 AM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Trump’s attorneys would like Mueller’s prosecutors to show that only the President can give them the information they require.

Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy at National Review says the same thing. Oh, and also the small matter of the courtesy of naming the specific crime they're investigating.

6 posted on 01/31/2018 10:22:03 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

His lawyers are correct. In fact the threshold for a Special Council has not been met.


7 posted on 01/31/2018 10:22:07 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: jiggyboy

“”” Oh, and also the small matter of the courtesy of naming the specific crime they’re investigating. “”””””””””

It is illegal for Republicans to talk to Russians. I thought you knew that.


8 posted on 01/31/2018 10:25:21 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Rapscallion
I think the statement by the lawyers is much more powerful than it seems at first glance.

Trump's attorneys would like Mueller’s prosecutors to show that only the President can give them the information they require.

I believe this is a direct reference to illicit FISA surveillance against members of the Trump campaign. Trump's lawyers are giving a big hint here that they know exactly what Mueller got from that FISA surveillance.

They're effectively boxing Mueller in here.

9 posted on 01/31/2018 10:26:36 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455841/trump-mueller-interview-president-refuse-request


10 posted on 01/31/2018 10:28:04 AM PST by TheConservator ("The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Why do lawyers make better lab animals than rats ??????


11 posted on 01/31/2018 10:31:51 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: Hotlanta Mike
This was never about an indictment, it is - and always has been - about impeachment.

The Mueller team is an open-ended, bottomless-pit-funded, Democrat-operative-packed, extension-and-expansion of the the Pee-Pee-Dossier Oppo Research efforts for the Democrats in 2020 if impeachment does not occur in 2019 (with the false narrative of a Democrat tidal wave to take over the House in 2018).

12 posted on 01/31/2018 10:35:09 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Never help your enemies hurt you.


13 posted on 01/31/2018 10:38:59 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Mueller = "Insurance Policy"

DO NOT TALK TO HIM

14 posted on 01/31/2018 10:40:36 AM PST by demsux (The "Mockingbirds" have come home to roost.)
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To: JesusIsLord
I don't know...why?

Do you know why lawyers always wear a tie?

15 posted on 01/31/2018 10:41:32 AM PST by demsux (The "Mockingbirds" have come home to roost.)
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To: SERKIT

And Devin Nunes has effectively castrated the entire witch hunt...#releasethememo


16 posted on 01/31/2018 10:42:05 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

This is absolutely correct.

Just because the opposing candidate and her unidicted co-conspirators concoct a false meme to try to overthrow the winner of an election doesn’t mean they get to go on a fishing expedition with the President of the United States.

Letting Mueller try to diminish the President by treating him the way he treats his usual hapless victims in some cheap entrapment play is not something anyone should let happen.


17 posted on 01/31/2018 10:46:52 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Hotlanta Mike

#ReleaseTheMemo, #IamNotaRussianBot, #MeMoToo, #SchiffOrGetOffThePot, #AntiTrumpersAreFullOfSchiff


18 posted on 01/31/2018 10:47:24 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Alberta's Child

Since this entire investigation is a political witch hunt thought up by the DNC, and since his initial purpose of trying to find evidence of Trump’s espionage is now dead for lack of evidence, I would tell Mueller...”Go scratch your ass...


19 posted on 01/31/2018 11:00:56 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

What about this idea:

Mueller was charged with investigating Russian interference, obstruction, money laundering, etc.

Why not ask Mueller for a proffer, that is, a confidential doc that indicates the strength of any underlying charge?

If there is no serious underlying complaint, why subject Trump to prosecution from a mis-statement?

Otherwise Mueller is just fishing, hoping to get Trump to slip up.

In any case, I would have a pre-interview of submitted written questions first that cover the scope of any possible in-person questioning.


20 posted on 01/31/2018 11:23:43 AM PST by gandalftb
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