From the stuff I have read of Trump's previous efforts when answering questions from hostile lawyers, and from what I have seen of Trump over the last year, I can tell you that were I representing him I would move heaven and earth to avoid and prospect of a one-to-one verbal interaction.

Even with advance notice of the questions and scripted answers, I wouldn't trust Trump to stay on script. He's too easily goaded and too willing to talk. He is genuinely the client from hell, from that point of view.

i'm a bit of a broken record on this, but it's really instructive to look up rob ford's testimony when he was in court for breaking municipal conflict of interest laws. i think the parallel there is strong.

basically i'd expect that trump's lawyers would want to keep him off the stand, at all cost. but if he did testify, i think the same mix of "i use my own definitions for that word" and "i never bothered to read that" and a touch of "i don't recall" tinged with "rules are for little people" thrown in.

trump's already got form on this - the testimony in which he talks about how he calculates his own net worth is. . . interesting.

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I sort of resent the use of the term "trapping people" when it comes to our interviews. A good investigative interviewer knows the answers to the vast majority of the questions being asked. If the subject fails to tell the truth that's THEIR problem. I ask you X, and I know the answer is Y, and you answer Z. Well, you're potentially on the hook for a 1001 charge. I will then use that against you in an effort to get you to tell the truth, and you deal with the consequences... or you can stick to your guns and deal with a whole other set of consequences.

My guess is that I've definitively known the answers to 75-90% of questions that I asked during subject interviews. We do our homework. The person being interviewed most often thinks they are there to tell us the who, what, where, why, and hows but they're really there to either confess or lie to us. Either hammer eventually works.

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On cue:

"The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!"


Hey Don, news flash... the Republicans ARE in control. Mueller is a registered Republican and he was appointed by your own Deputy Attorney General, who continues to support his efforts.


Methinks Trump is beginning to feel the heat.


So what happens if he appoints a new AG, who then fires Mueller and closes the investigation? I assume the FBI can pick up any financial crime probes and continue them, no?

Wouldn't the actual Salem witch hunt be the greatest in American history? Just wondering.

If Trump gets Mueller fired, the Congress will (believe it or not) appoint its own Special Counsel to pick up the investigation. To not do so would be politically toxic for them.

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