President Trump Will Be Casually Prepping For A Potential Interview With Mueller

Thursday May 17th marked one year of Mueller’s investigation into Trump/Russia collusion.

And whaddya know. There’s no evidence of “collusion.” That’s why CNN and MSNBC are putting all their time and energy into the Stormy Daniels scandal. It’s their last hope. Sad!

ANYWHO. According to one of Trump’s attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump may prep for a potential interview with Mueller just in case.

Oy vey.

Donald Trump’s lawyers have begun planning a series of summer prep sessions for the president before a possible sit-down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said Thursday.

The planning meetings — to be held during off-hours at the White House and perhaps over rounds of golf at Trump’s private courses, Giuliani said — will mirror the then-GOP nominee’s 2016 debate preparation, in which aides briefed an impatient Trump in several brief sessions over many weeks. Giuliani said the briefings likely will begin after Trump returns from a June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if a Mueller interview is agreed to.

Oh boy.

“You can’t take a president away to Camp David and just prepare him for two or three weeks,” Giuliani stated.

“I think of it as the way we prepared him for debates,” he continued. “He never liked to be sitting down for long stretches. We’d do an hour here, two hours there. We’d end up doing 15, 16 hours of preparation, particularly for the first debate. But we’d do it here and there. We have to do it over the course of two or three weeks. Maybe at nights, maybe in the morning.”

I guess that’s a good strategy? I just don’t know if it’s a good idea to sit down with Mueller. It’s clear he has nothing anyway. I suspect an interview would only drag out the process out even more.

It remains unclear whether Mueller will actually wind up speaking to Trump. But the comments seem to suggest that Trump’s lawyers have softened their position on the matter and may now view a sit down with the special counsel as inevitable.

Giuliani suggested the prospect has recently grown more likely, for two reasons.

One is that Mueller has sent the Trump team a written clarification of his expectations about the ground rules for a potential interview. Giuliani said Trump’s lawyers had sent a series of five letters to Mueller “seeking to narrow the scope of the questioning and the timing and all of that. And we finally got a brief response that gives us some hope that maybe we can do something.”

Giuliani declined to elaborate on the details of Mueller’s response but added: “I’ve been saying for two weeks we’re not getting a response. I think it finally hit home and we got one. It seems like a reasonable position not that we can agree with but from which we can negotiate.”

I guess we’ll see what happens.

Oh, the Mueller drama. It never ends.

h/t Politico