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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position
This is an excellent explanation of what Trump's legal team is attempting, albeit poorly. In their defense they're trying to mitigate an unprecedented web of criminal acts, lies and shoddy coverups.
The most plausible explanation for the concession actually indicates the weakness of Trumps position. Remember the backstory here: The Times also reported that Mark Corallo, the former spokesman for Trumps legal team, resigned over Trumps role in this statement. Corallo was preparing to tell Mueller that in a private conference call with Trump himself, his communications director Hope Hicks had said Donald Trump Jr.s emails will never get out, leaving him concerned that Donald Trumps team was engaged in a coverup. Corallo has certainly talked to Mueller about this episode, as have others involved in it.
Jed Shugerman, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, told me that this concession by Trumps lawyers likely meant they had no choice Mueller has established exactly what happened. They are conceding this point as part of an effort to justify not sitting for an interview theyre claiming Trump already admits he dictated this statement, so Mueller doesnt need to ask about it.
The admission is so surprising that it suggests they may be trying to avoid a subpoena by basically conceding a key factual point, Shugerman said. They see a live interview with Muellers team as more dangerous than the damage from admitting that Trump dictated this statement.
But as former White House counsel Bob Bauer added to me, their concession of Trumps role in dictating the statement actually strengthens the rationale for insisting on further questioning. This raises all sorts of questions as to why he did it, Bauer told me. What did you know at the time you wrote it? Who did you know it from? And why did you write something we now know wasnt true? The moment that they concede that they lied about [Trumps role], the argument for the interview is strengthened, not weakened.
Jed Shugerman, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, told me that this concession by Trumps lawyers likely meant they had no choice Mueller has established exactly what happened. They are conceding this point as part of an effort to justify not sitting for an interview theyre claiming Trump already admits he dictated this statement, so Mueller doesnt need to ask about it.
The admission is so surprising that it suggests they may be trying to avoid a subpoena by basically conceding a key factual point, Shugerman said. They see a live interview with Muellers team as more dangerous than the damage from admitting that Trump dictated this statement.
But as former White House counsel Bob Bauer added to me, their concession of Trumps role in dictating the statement actually strengthens the rationale for insisting on further questioning. This raises all sorts of questions as to why he did it, Bauer told me. What did you know at the time you wrote it? Who did you know it from? And why did you write something we now know wasnt true? The moment that they concede that they lied about [Trumps role], the argument for the interview is strengthened, not weakened.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/04/secret-memo-to-mueller-actually-reveals-weakness-of-trumps-position/?utm_term=.303c1dbe4ce3
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Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position (Original Post)
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Takket
(21,715 posts)1. I think it is quite telling....
That all they can bring to the table is here is why you cant charge me not here is why I am not guilty.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)2. More possible idiocy by drumph. Keep going this way fool.
matt819
(10,749 posts)3. The funny thing is
that even though his lawyers are conceding the point - which supports the allegation of obstruction - we all know that if trump is subpoenaed and testifies, he will contradict his lawyers and continue to claim he had nothing to do with any of it (and who's this guy who calls himself donald jr.).