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Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump
The Hill ^ | May 1, 2018 | BROOKE SEIPEL

Posted on 05/01/2018 8:11:31 AM PDT by BurgessKoch

Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller, said Tuesday he believes President Trump leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.

“I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Mueller’s office where he outlined broad topics and these guys wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise,” Zeldin said on CNN's "New Day."

“Because of the way these questions are written ... lawyers wouldn’t write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper," he continued. "So, I don’t see this as a list of written questions that Mueller’s office gave to the president. I think these are more notes that the White House has taken and then they have expanded upon the conversation to write out these as questions.”

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KEYWORDS: braking; clintonnonnews; cnn; fakenews; margarettalev; media; michaelzeldin; msm; muellerinvestigation; muellerquestions; muellertrump; russianwitchhunt; trump
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To: FrankR

LOL! Well done!


41 posted on 05/01/2018 11:30:16 AM PDT by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the anti-American phony "resistance")
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To: BurgessKoch

Fake News CNN


42 posted on 05/01/2018 2:04:19 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: BurgessKoch

Pure nonsense they are exactly questions that could be asked.


43 posted on 05/01/2018 2:10:20 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: rktman

“The short answer to all of muellers possible questions, ‘no comment’. Through the lawyer.”

I don’t know...part of me hopes that the answer to each question is F-— You.


44 posted on 05/01/2018 2:14:03 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: BurgessKoch
I didn't think that the President would **** on the failing New York Times if it was on fire.

So he gave them an exclusive scoop?

45 posted on 05/01/2018 2:15:30 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Sooth2222

It was pulled out of CNN’s butt. Who would to retype that.


46 posted on 05/01/2018 2:21:18 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: BurgessKoch

Didn’t the NYT confirm the Qs came from a source outside the White House? (aka Mueller’s crew


47 posted on 05/01/2018 2:32:07 PM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: BurgessKoch

Fake News.


48 posted on 05/01/2018 2:39:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: PGR88
Stormy Daniels and Robert Mueller - two prostitutes working towards the same goal.

Yep, and they're both gonna get F**KED.

49 posted on 05/01/2018 2:44:51 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: BurgessKoch

Is Zeldin a typical example of the brain power Mueller has working for him? LOL


50 posted on 05/01/2018 2:50:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Cboldt
I disagree with the logic here, because NYT could have mangled actual questions into it's news report, regardless of where the actual questions came from (if they are actual Mueller team proposed questions).

What bad grammar? Where are the mistakes in the Times report? I don't see any. For Zeldin to be correct the paper would have had to fix up errors when they published the article.

I do see some questionable usage of commas, but it's not something that lawyers or reporters absolutely would never do. And there's some "with whom." If Trump is so illiterate would he really know how to use "whom"?

But of course the idea that Trump himself would personally leak the questions isn't believable. If somebody else in the White House did leak the questions, why would they necessarily be less literate than Mueller's staff or the Times staffers?

This is the age of cut and paste. If you get the list of questions and want to pass it on, you can probably just cut and paste them from one document to another. So where do errors come into the picture?

And it's not just cut and paste for the recipient of the questions. It's cut and paste for the lawyers who drafted them, too. The questions weren't some great and eloquent work of art. It's "What did you think ... ," "Was the purpose of ...," "What was the purpose of ...," "What did you know ...," over and over again. If there are mistakes in grammar, it's probably because they had all those beginnings of questions and cut and pasted them with the second half of the question (the thing they were asking about).

So I don't think there's much credibility to the story.

51 posted on 05/01/2018 2:53:12 PM PDT by x
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To: LS
"More likely Maggot Haberman of the NYT to avoid talking about Iran."

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LOL ....

52 posted on 05/01/2018 2:55:49 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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To: BurgessKoch

During Plamegate prosecutors tried to assure us Scooter Libby was the source of leaks...


53 posted on 05/01/2018 3:01:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: BurgessKoch

Well I was looking over the questions from an earlier report here and the questions looked like a dumb lawyer wrote them..


54 posted on 05/01/2018 3:06:53 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: Jim 0216

or “for my next trick, I’m gonna let this pencil disappear..TADA!!” (The Joker)


55 posted on 05/01/2018 3:14:31 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: BurgessKoch

So grammar is like a signature? I suppose... but anyone can insert grammatical errors to make it look like it came from someone else.


56 posted on 05/01/2018 3:14:51 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: BurgessKoch

Then perhaps they would be interested in the grammatical analysis of 0vomit’s supposed book. Analysis by an EXPERT says that it was NOT written by 0vomit and was most likely written by Ayers.

That is based on FAR MORE evidence and a much greater level of expertise.


57 posted on 05/01/2018 3:27:04 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: BurgessKoch
“Because of the way these questions are written ... lawyers wouldn’t write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper," he continued.

Some of the worst grammar I've seen has been written by lawyers.

58 posted on 05/01/2018 3:47:39 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: BurgessKoch

Figures, they leak the crap then say oh it was written by a dummy so Trump must have written it..such a-holes


59 posted on 05/01/2018 4:00:23 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: All

The first hour of Mark Levin is going to replay at 9pm est and he is saying Mueller leaked this as part of his grounds for impeachment of Trump.


60 posted on 05/01/2018 4:03:23 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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