Hoping to Have Trump Cleared, Legal Team Eases Resistance to Inquiry

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WASHINGTON — White House officials once debated a scorched-earth strategy of publicly criticizing and undercutting Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian efforts to disrupt last year’s election. Now, President Trump’s lawyers are pursuing a different course: cooperating with the special counsel in the hope that Mr. Mueller will declare in the coming months that Mr. Trump is not a target of the Russia inquiry.

Mr. Trump has long sought such a public declaration. He fired his F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, in May after Mr. Comey refused to say openly that Mr. Trump was not under investigation.

The president’s legal team is working swiftly to respond to requests from Mr. Mueller for emails, documents and memos, and will make White House officials available for interviews. Once Mr. Mueller has combed through the evidence, Mr. Trump’s lawyers plan to ask him to affirm that Mr. Trump is not under investigation, either for colluding with Russian operatives or for trying to obstruct justice.

More than a half dozen White House officials, witnesses and outside lawyers connected to the Russia inquiry have described the approach, which is as much a public relations strategy as a legal one. The president’s legal team aims to argue that the White House has nothing to hide, hoping to shift the burden to Mr. Mueller to move quickly to wrap up an investigation that has consumed the Trump administration’s first year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/us/politics/trump-russia-legal.html

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1. Does Trump Have All His Minions Lying For Him.....

is that how his lawyers think he'll get out of this?

[SonofDonald]

2. A fishing expedition from dumpfs lawyers

When you consider the dumpfs continous lies and the scorched earth policy they kept thinking about and the news that dumpf is having rage fests in private and the fact that he's destroyed evidence before and that he wanted the investigation into Flynn dropped and his public statements that when he fired Comey he felt that the pressure was off and every other little fact that has come out in the last year it's obvious that where there's smoke......

It's just a ploy to convince his base and every other low information voter that he's innocent, then when something ironclad comes out they'll still believe him, it's all about appearance to these gonads, the truth is only what they tell you it is.

They think that all the evidence they've destroyed helps them, it's absolutely disgusting as they are hoping anything left can't be revealed to the public due to the sources or how it was collected can't be used against them and they've covered their tracks.

The hints at pardons for everyone is another strategy to hide evidence, but I'm sure Mueller has everything he needs to bring them down, he's just figuring how to put it all together that ends up nailing them to the wall while not revealing some of the sensitive sources of his information.

Dumps crowd thinks they'll get off scot free, I can't wait until I see the look on dumpfs face when he realizes it's all over for him.

[ProudLib72]

3. One possibility they didn't consider

Dotard is completely guilty and they need to prepare for the worst.

I hope they never realize this and are caught off guard.