Trump Really Wants to Talk to Mueller, but for Some Reason His Lawyers Think That's a Bad Idea
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The Washington Post reported today that President Donald Trump’s lawyers have shared documents with Special Counsel Robert Mueller “in hopes of curtailing the scope of a presidential interview.” It would be bad legal strategy, apparently, to let a proud pathological liar give testimony under oath:
Trump’s legal team recently shared the documents in an effort to limit any session between the president and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to a few select topics, the people said. The lawyers are worried that Trump, who has a penchant for making erroneous claims, would be vulnerable in an hours-long interview.
The decision to share materials with Mueller’s team is part of an effort by Trump’s lawyers to minimize his exposure to the special counsel, whom the president recently attacked in a series of tweets.
If you’re someone who cares about this kind of thing — clearly many people don’t — Politifact has fact-checked 531 of Trump’s claims and statements going back to the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, when Trump told the crowd that “the people that went to school with [Barack Obama], they never saw him, they don’t know who he is. It’s crazy.”