MSNBC reporting Jay Sekulow compiled the list of 49 questions.

[madaboutharry]

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow compiled the list leaked to the NY Times.

Recall this morning, Trump tweeted that the Democrats! leaked the questions.

We live in Crazy Town.

[salin]

1. I saw that on MSNBC as well. Not surprising.

[HopeAgain]

4. That would explain the typos and bad grammar.

Idiots

[RandomAccess]

18. Poorly educated idiots

I've been giggling to myself since I heard it.

[czarjak]

38. Go public...

[salin]

20. and Sekolow is viewed as a Star/Scholar in the talibornigan environment.

a reminder to those outside of that environment. Literacy matters.

[RockRaven]

2. hahahahahahahahahahaha

their bullshit barely lasts a news cycle before falling apart these days...

[Cracklin Charlie]

26. So...

The Scaramucci is now obsolete as a unit of time measurement?

A Sekulow Unit is characterized as any bullshit story that fails in under 24 hours.

[JHB]

65. It doesn't need to. They don't care.

What counts with the Republican base is the initial headline confirming their biases, and then it lives in their heads forever.

Any later contradition or debunking is "fake news" by the "lying liberal media".

[Iliyah]

3. For one, how in the hell could "Democrats" get the questions.

Second, Democrats would have constructed better written questions and would have including questions concerning money laundering.

Thirdly, fuck you shithole.

[Cha]

16. That's the scaredy trump's go to..

Only that should be a red crayon..

[Me.]

30. HeHe

so true

[Cha]

37. Should be

a red crayon.. darn it! lol

Me

[Me.]

45. Interestingly

I googled the color for 'lying, cheating and a general lack of loyalty' is yellow.

Coward anyone?

[Cha]

47. Yellow fits trump for its negative

aspects. Red for his fascist goparty.

I like yellow for its positive hues..

"Yellow, the color of sunshine, hope, and happiness, has conflicting associations. On one hand yellow stands for freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy, but on the other, it represents cowardice and deceit.Feb 5, 2011"

Obviously trump missed out on any of that.

[Me.]

48. Yellow Thanks You

For the save

[Cha]

49. Lol..

For standing up for it.

[lunasun]

51. I agree yellow is too positive to assign as his crayon color. Red like his MAGA caps

[BigmanPigman]

5. Everyone knows by now that the moron's team leaked them....

nobody can figure out why though. One thing for sure, this is heading toward a showdown and pretty soon too. It will probably go to the Supreme Court.

[not fooled]

55. One theory

is that the moron's camp is trying to de-emphasize the financial aspects of his crimes. So, they selected which questions to leak and deliberately omitted other questions pertaining to money laundering, his business dealings, etc. which Mueller is certainly going to ask.

I heard this posited by an analyst on MSNBC. Sorry, can't remember the guy's name for attribution.

[BigmanPigman]

59. That DOES make sense.

[manor321]

6. Yep, from same WashPo article

Yes, this is from the same WashPo article about the mentioning of the subpoena:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-raised-possibility-of-presidential-subpoena-in-meeting-with-trumps-legal-team/2018/05/01/2bdec08e-4d51-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

[avebury]

7. One of Mueller's former assistants has commented publicly on the

volume of grammatical errors in the document which would prove it could have not come out of Mueller's office.

[madaboutharry]

8. One of Mueller's former assistants.

[avebury]

10. You are right. I have fixed my post.

Thanks!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

12. You can't be a dim-wit

and be a federal attorney. As much as dt and sean h wish it were so.
It's going to be a glorious day when "it" ends. Similar reaction in the US to when they got Osama Bin Ladin.

[shenmue]

9. Pat Robertson's best buddy

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. It should have been apparent to all of us..

Jay is a low wattage kinda guy. NEVER impressed when I hear him going off. What a tool box the dt orbit is.

[GeorgeGist]

13. So now we know that ...

the questions didn't originate with Mueller. Just Trump's lawyers trying to read Mueller's mind.

Expect that they're not even close.

[Blue_true]

17. I wonder.

Whether the White House cleaning crew wear breathing mask when cleaning the surfaces of tables and desks. Everyone around Trump come off as Coke snorters.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Bad coverage by press. They've been quoting

Them as Mueller questions including our people

[mitch96]

44. When I heard the news it came from Sekulow, all bets were off

We are suppose to believe that the truth will come thru the veil of Jay Sekulow? I bet the special council's team are laughing out loud. Like Avenatti said. The legal team is playing 3D chess and tRump's team is playing a bad game of checkers

m

[mnmoderatedem]

14. trump says it's "disgraceful" that the questions were leaked

his own lawyer did it.

He gets dumber by the minute.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

21. I don't think Sekulow leaked them.

Attorney client privilege would prevent him from doing that. The questions are work product and are privileged. If Trump leaked them, he might have waived privilege by doing so. Wouldn't that be rich?

[More_Cowbell]

24. And the NYT said it was from someone "outside" Trump's legal team nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. I'm thinking Michael Cohen after Trump-endorsed Nat Enq hit piece against him. But I don't see path.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Maybe not...but good point. As more time

passes and he screws more people more and more people will turn on him. Trouble is if they sent a team to get med records..FOR SURE...trump had Cohen cleanse everything he had. Explains why trump pulling away from him...only because he knows there's nothing that will incriminate him.

Jesus can anyone stop this monster?

[lisa58]

15. I didn't see that...

I did see Bill Kristol speculate earlier- was it confirmed?

[wishstar]

19. Washington Post story reports that Sekulow compiled 49 questions and Trump fumed

"Mueller’s warning — the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump’s legal team — spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president’s lead lawyer.
“This isn’t some game,” Dowd said, according to two people with knowledge of his comments. “You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.”

The flare-up set in motion weeks of turmoil among Trump’s attorneys as they debated how to deal with the special counsel’s request for an interview, a dispute that ultimately led to Dowd’s resignation.

In the wake of the testy March 5 meeting, Mueller’s team agreed to provide the president’s lawyers with more specific information about the subjects that prosecutors wished to discuss with the president. With those details in hand, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow compiled a list of 49 questions that the team believed the president would be asked, according to three of the four people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly. The New York Times first reported the existence of the list."

For his part, Trump fumed when he saw the breadth of the questions that emerged out of the talks with Mueller’s team, according to two White House officials.
The president and several advisers now plan to point to the list as evidence that Mueller has strayed beyond his mandate and is overreaching, they said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-raised-possibility-of-presidential-subpoena-in-meeting-with-trumps-legal-team/2018/05/01/2bdec08e-4d51-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.b253d6ec9adf

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. No, he has not strayed beyond his mandate.

His mandate is sufficiently broad as to allow him to investigate almost anything. What he has overreached is Team Shart's comfort level.

[sarcasmo]

22. We're in the upside down.

[kentuck]

23. He would not have released them without Trump's approval.

Bet on it.

But why??

What advantage does Trump hope to get by releasing those questions?

Perhaps he's hoping FOX hosts can come up with some answers for him?

Trump is always conniving and colluding.

[NCDem47]

31. Because Trump wants to sabotage Mueller!

He can say there are leaks coming out, so Mueller’s office is dirty and then have cause to start the process of getting him out of there, therefore shutting things down.

[Sophia4]

25. It is a limited list. I thought that the omission of certain topics was rather strange.

I would have many more questions to ask.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

41. Like what topics? I would like to hear about the

Change in repuke platform. That's not one of the 49 is it?

[Sophia4]

46. I would ask more about business dealings with Russians and more detail about

the issues raised.

I wonder whether these questions were presented as possible questions for written answers. Depositions aren't usually so rigid.

Also, I have a sense that Mueller's team already knows what others have answered to these questions.

Now I learn that these are questions that Dowd, Trump's past lawyer, presented. That makes sense. Somehow they are to narrow in my view.

I wrote my post based on my reaction when I read the questions yesterday.

I'd need to review them in order to state more precisely the directions I would have addressed in addition to those questions.

The Russian funding to the NRA is one area that could be explored.

Money issues could be explored in more depth.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

56. Yes - still a lot of "unknowns" in all of this. And leaked by someone in Trump's

circle is very curious. Some say because he wants sympathy with supporters. Perhaps that's why nothing will be asked like "where did you get the money you needed in 2006?" His people would go crazy with that one. Agree on money issues - but perhaps that is more black and white? They have all the financial records now right?

But all that said, heard they were not actual questions from Mueller right - that they were given topics and Trump lawyers came up with possible questions. Wow, just saying that - it makes zero sense doesn't it. Lots of them in my view are very pointed and incriminating. Maybe that is what they are doing...practicing? Like why did you tweet this about Comey? Lets them come up with bogus reply. But that doesn't even make sense if they aren't even Mueller's questions - when would they even get asked.

mystery

[Sophia4]

58. Yes. I think they are practicing and maybe even corroborating Trump's story with

prior witnesses.

What really happened with Hope Hicks?

I've been wondering a great deal about what really happened.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

60. Great obervation ! Shit - unless you have 24/7 time to piece all this

together - it is way too big. In my job, we white board complex issues - for this you would need some 10 dimensional model of some sort. What are you thinking about Hicks? I just figured she was a lightweight - and have figured she caved to her more liberal family and friends to "get out" now.

[Sophia4]

61. I just think it very odd that Hicks spoke to -- was it Mueller's investigation --

then abruptly quit the White House and has disappeared. I just think it is very odd. We have heard virtually nothing from her since as far as I can tell.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

62. Yes. Totally more to the story. And, one of those things that means something

but we forget about because he's throwing so many balls up in the air. In my mind...she was an easy mark - dumb - fell for the glamour of it all and fell for Trump who used her and threw he away. Others picked her up - and then her family/friends are now trying to straighten her out. Do you really think she could be involved in anything more nefarious?

[Sophia4]

64. To answer your question, I don't know. I'm just wondering what happened to her.

[SamKnause]

27. All of this is a game to Trump.

All of his vicious attacks and hate speech is INTENTIONAL !!!

He is trying to start a race war.

Jeff Sessions in on board and doing his part.

Ben Carson is enjoying his participation in the game.

The Freedom Caucus is simply orgasmic.

The White Supremacy groups are enjoying their comebacks.

The police are leading the charge.

This is all INTENTIONAL !!!

[dalton99a]

36. We are gladiators fighting for his amusement

[RainCaster]

28. Were not in Crazy Town, 45 is

We believe in Truth.

[madaboutharry]

33. Trump turned America into Crazy Town.

And we are being held hostage.

[Oneironaut]

34. Doesn't matter. Tomorrow, most Americans will still believe that the Democrats leaked the

questions. Trump knows that half of the country believes what he says unquestioningly. It doesn't matter if what he says is true or not - he gets to create his own truth.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

42. Repetition works. We have no platform to get

To the people who hear his brainwash. Fox and rush don't take alternative viewpoints. And my FIL is one of them...he's blocked CNN and MSNBC from his channel scan. So how do we reach these people?

[7962]

35. Many folks here said that when trump blasted the "leak", that meant he was involved. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

43. Blame your sin in enemy. Rovian? Makes sense

Because many of them will never hear the opposing explanation...so you've automatically gained support

[lindysalsagal]

50. 45's critique of the "leak" prooves they don't tell him what's going on: They leaked it.

Actually feels better knowing they don't tell him everything...

[Hugin]

52. Tag this as item #1653456789234-a/PUH4 evidence of Obstruction of Justice.

:sigh:

We live in a land where some are above consequences. If it were not so, a bald Trump would today be having trouble scraping together enough references to apply to be a junior assistant curb cleaner in a rural area where horses are still the major means of locomotive force. Instead of a twit President who is destroying the American Dream and democracy.

And, people wonder why I no longer believe in Karma.

[mr_lebowski]

53. Not to say 'I told ya so', but pretty sure I was the first to mention where Trump was going w/this

Last night ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210561650#post11

It was extremely predictable ...

[orangecrush]

54. K&R

[Honeycombe8]

57. Yep. Everyone with a brain thought so. nt

[CakeGrrl]

63. Each and every time Trump tweets an accusation

it should be assumed that he's projecting his or his associates' wrongdoing onto the subject.

I'll bet that if he wanted to do so, Mueller could link every accusatory Trump tweet to evidence of Trump or his team doing that very thing.