I’m inclined to believe the recent leak of the alleged questions Robert "Ahab" Mueller wants to ask President Trump originated from the Trump side of the equation. It doesn’t make sense for Mueller’s team to leak a document that screams Bad Faith Trap.
Mueller is supposed to be investigating collusion with Russia during the presidential campaign, yet the questions include events that happened long after the campaign concluded. Others are — to keep our nautical theme — thinly disguised fishing lures.
For example: “What was your opinion of Mr. Comey during the transition?” “What was the purpose of your April 11, 2017, statement to Maria Bartiromo?” “What did you mean in your interview with Lester Holt about Mr. Comey and Russia?” “What is the reason for your continued criticism of Mr. Comey and his former deputy, Andrew G. McCabe?”
Then there are the questions about Jeff Sessions as Attorney General: “What was the purpose of your July 2017 criticism of Mr. Sessions?”
These fuzzy, open-ended questions appear designed as a perjury trap where Trump’s — how shall we say this — expansive answers are compared to answers from others and any discrepancies attributed to perjury on the president’s part.
This is the same underhanded technique that sent Scooter Libby to jail and got Gen. Mike Flynn indicted.
As RedState pointed out, “The questions give a clear roadmap to what Mueller’s game is. He really has nothing and he’s trying to get Trump’s recollections to compare them to what other recalled. This is not a harmless exercise. One of the charges on which Scooter Libby was convicted was that he said he remembered hearing Valerie Plame’s name from Tim Russert and Tim Russert said he didn’t mention her name. That’s it. A felony perjury conviction.”
If I were advising Trump on the matter, and I’m not, I would second the advice of other observers: Only agree to meet with Mueller in person under the same ground rules that governed Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview: No one is under oath, no notes are taken, questions are submitted in advance, all campaign aides are given immunity before they are interviewed and the decision not to charge is made prior to the interview.
If those rules are good enough for Hillary, they should be good enough for the man who beat her.
Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Reagan, is a Newsmax TV analyst. A syndicated columnist and author, he chairs The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael is an in-demand speaker with Premiere speaker’s bureau. Read more reports from Michael Reagan — Go Here Now.
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