President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would still "like to" testify before special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia's 2016 election meddling as well as potential obstruction of justice charges.
"Yes, I would like to," Trump told CNN's Jeff Zeleny during an event on new tariffs against China.
This is the second time that Trump has said this.
He said the same thing back in January.
After that Trump's lawyers walked the statement back.Trump says he's "looking forward" to meeting Mueller's team in Russia probe https://t.co/kVdcoybW8Y pic.twitter.com/4BWFUR86tC— POLITICO (@politico) January 25, 2018
But one of those lawyers was John Dowd, and he just quit in disgust, so maybe it's time to "Let Trump be Trump" as his campaign staff were fond of saying back in 2016.
And we certainly know that Mueller is prepared for this Q and A.
Hell he even has a list of questions he'd like to ask:
The legal team of the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election has reportedly identified four main topic areas they hope to discuss with President Trump in a proposed sit-down interview.
Investigators working for Robert Mueller want to ask Trump about a highly scrutinized 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russians and several Trump campaign officials, his involvement in a misleading statement about his son's role in the meeting, and his firing of both his national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey, sources familiar with the situation told CNN.
Mueller's investigators also hope to learn the extent of Trump's knowledge of the phone calls Flynn made with Russians before joining the White House. Flynn was fired for lying to the FBI about that communication.
Oh yeah, I would like to hear the answers to those questions as well.
Trump's attorneys will likely each take a leg so that Trump would have to drag them down the hallway to keep him from talking directly to Mueller's team, but I think that if somebody were to call him out on Twitter and suggest that he did not have the guts to face them, that Trump would have to take that bait.
Who do we think would be best to issue that challenge?
Joe Biden?
Hillary Clinton?
Or perhaps Rosie O'Donnell?
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