There has been a drumbeat in the White House and on Fox News warning of the big-league risks the president would run.
By Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay
By Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay
Some of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers and allies are
pleading with him not to give sworn testimony to special counsel Robert
Mueller.
It’s an ongoing struggle. One that has intensified in
recent days as everyone from White House officials, to trusted campaign
hands, to friends and confidants on the phone have repeated a variation
of the same refrain: Listen to your lawyers. Listen to your lawyers. Oh,
dear God, please listen to your lawyers.
Trump actually did that last June, The New York Times
reported Thursday evening, when he ordered Mueller fired only to
reverse himself after White House counsel Don McGahn said he would quit
instead of asking the Justice Department to do that.
“It would be
monumentally and historically stupid,” a senior White House official
said, regarding the possibility of Trump quickly submitting himself to a
no-holds-barred sit-down, under oath, with the special counsel.
Those
advising the president say they are confident that he is innocent of
the allegations central to Mueller’s investigation—that Trump or his
campaign colluded with Russian agents to influence the outcome of the
2016 presidential election. But they fret the possibility that by
subjecting himself to questioning, he could open himself up to
additional legal quagmires, made all the more complicated by revelations
on Thursday night that the president attempted to have Mueller fired,
only to back off after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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