...because, you know, Trump testifying before Mueller "would cripple a future president."

[Miles Archer]

Donald Trump’s legal team is reportedly brainstorming ways for the president to avoid testifying before special counsel Robert Mueller.

The Wall Street Journal reported that members of Trump’s legal team have been developing plans to shield the president from having to testify or be interviewed by investigators. Lying under oath or to federal agents carries a prison term.

One member of the legal team told the Journal that Mueller’s office “has all of the notes and memos of the thoughts and actions of this president on all subjects he requested in real time without reservation or qualification, including testimony from his most intimate staff and eight lawyers from the White House Counsel’s Office. Any question for the president is answered in these materials and testimony.”

“It would be a travesty to waste his (Mr. Trump’s) time and to set a precedent which would cripple a future president,” the source added.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trump-team-plots-presidents-refusal-testify-russia-probe-travesty-waste-time/

[mainer]

1. Funny. I don't remember GOP saying that about Bill Clinton n/t

[dalton99a]

5. Exactly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Didn't both Clinton and Bush have to do that?

Nobody complained about those conversations. And it is truly hilarious to suggest that talking to Mueller would be a waste of Trump's time, considering that he spends most of it watching TV, golfing and eating.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Bush set a bad precedent.

He testified, but on the conditions that Cheney be with him, no transcript, no oath, behind closed doors, no public.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. That's true, but at least he never claimed he was too busy,

which in Trump's case is absolutely ludicrous. As infuriating as the conditions for the Bush interview were, it was done under different rules - the 9/11 commission wasn't conducting a criminal investigation like Mueller, and the members of the commission agreed to the interview on Bush's terms. Mueller won't be so accommodating.

[EffieBlack]

3. Only if we elect any more lying, corrupt, immoral criminals

Otherwise, I think they should be good to go.

[Leghorn21]

4. It would be a travesty to waste his (Mr. Trumps) time.....ahaharhaaarrhahahaharharwtf!!! nt

[world wide wally]

6. I hope Mueller interviews have m on a Saturday just to fuck up his golf plans

[The Polack MSgt]

7. It would be a travesty to waste his (Mr. Trumps) time

Oh come-on, like you can't you find a lobbyist to spring for a DVR for that fat fuck?

He can watch TV when he gets back

[Vinca]

10. It goes without saying if Hillary had won they wouldn't want her testifying for Mueller.