Can Trump Perjure Himself With Written Answers Prepared By Lawyers?.....

[global1]

Trump's lawyers are preparing answers to Mueller questions because a face-to-face will not happen. I was just wondering if the answers are contradictory to what Mueller has learned elsewhere - can Trump be cited for perjury?

[MaryMagdaline]

1. If he signs under oath, yes. If not under oath he can still be

Charged with lying to FBI

Would have to prove falsity of course.

[jberryhill]

2. .

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001

[Sanity Claws]

3. Yes

Depending on the circumstances, the lawyers may be charged with suborning perjury. More likely, their law license may be placed in jeopardy.

[PJMcK]

4. Everything Trump touches dies (n/t)

[NotASurfer]

5. Can he ever!

Though he'll blame it on David Dennison or John Baron or whatever name he makes up this time to sign with

[empedocles]

6. Suspect Mueller's strategy is to provide an under oath foundation document

to 'compare and contrast' various traitortrump 'proclamations'. [There's perjury somewhere, or most everywhere]

[karynnj]

7. Yes he could

I assume that the lawyers will try to use language that obscures any inconvienient thing that Trump did while remaining technically truthful. (consider the famous cases where Clinton had responses that depended on the meaning of "is" and sex. I am not equating what they would be attempting to hide - a consensual inappropriate relationship for Clinton; treason or something close to that for Trump.)

I would assume that his greatest danger is if he lies to his lawyers. This would mean that their responses would also be untruthful and would not have any weasil words rather than a complete untruthful denial. Oh, need to add that he always lies -- to a degree that I wonder if he even has a concept of what truth is.

[jaysunb]

8. He can and he will.

No good lawyer asks questions that he doesn't already know the answer to, and probably has cohborating evidence from others. ....like the ones that have already flipped.