Giuliani says Trump won't sit for Mueller interview unless all FBI source documents can be reviewed

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Josh Dawsey and John Wagner

May 29 at 3:12 PM

President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Tuesday that Trump will not agree to an interview with the special counsel until prosecutors allow the president’s legal team to review documents related to the FBI’s use of a source to interact with members of Trump’s 2016 campaign.

“We need all the documents before we can decide whether we are going to do an interview,” Giuliani said in an interview with The Washington Post, using Trump’s term “spygate” to refer to the FBI actions, which former officials have said were well within bounds.

Giuliani’s latest demand further ratcheted up the pressure that Trump and his lawyers are trying to place on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as his investigation into alleged coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia reaches a key juncture.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump lashed out at the “Rigged Russia Witch Hunt” on Twitter, casting Mueller’s probe as partisan and saying it could amount to “MEDDLING” to the detriment of Republicans in this year’s midterm elections.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-says-trump-wont-sit-for-mueller-interview-unless-all-spygate-documents-can-be-reviewed/2018/05/29/38abc456-6372-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Fuck off you traitorous prick.

Giuliani that is

[Maeve]

3. I was going to respond but

you said it so well!

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. I know, right. Like the media from now on MUST call what rump says LIES

nothing else.

Imagine that WAPO has documented in little over one year not 3 lies, not 30 lies, not 300 lies but THREE GOD DAMN THOUSAND lies.

And yet he is still supported by about half the country.

Boy are we fucked.

[Shrike47]

2. OK, you had your chance. Subpoena to grand jury.

[notdarkyet]

16. Yep.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Time for a subpoena then

and, according to Rudy Giuliani himself, a president must testify if hit with a subpoena

[louis-t]

5. Well, you can be interviewed in the WH

or in prison. Your choice.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. If I'm Robert Mueller, I've got three words--strike that, three letters--for Trump and Rudy.

G.

F.

Well, I think you can figure out the third one.

[Hortensis]

8. Lol. What a ridiculous jerk he's become.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Team Trump is MEDDLING in the OSC Investigation, aka

obstruction

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Oh, and so all defendents get to review all source documents etc.?

This is BS on G's part. Only during trial during the discovery phase, I am guessing that perhaps some of these documents would come out.

[Achilleaze]

11. How do we know Rudy the repube isn't lying about this 'demand'?

I mean the republican mouthpiece for Comrade Casino* has lied about everything else. I suspect he's lying about this so-called "demand" as well. It fits the repulican pattern. I think The Rudester is just employing a standard republican propaganda technique of flinging shit against the wall with a pathetic (and grossly unethical) hope that a gob or two will stick somewhere.


* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

[keithbvadu2]

12. And then there would be another excuse for not doing an interview.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. A more accurate headline would be "Giuliani says Trump won't sit for Mueller interview."

Since when the subject (target?) of an investigation get to look at all the evidence before he's questioned? I hope Mueller subpoenas his ass. Let's take it through the courts and see just how much a president can hide behind his office. Even if he wins, the "can he/can't he?" speculation for future presidents will have been established, and if we get another president who thinks the rule of law doesn't apply to him everyone will know the rules of the game.

[CincyDem]

14. That's legal-speak for...

...we want to know what you know so we know where we can lie, cuz we're gonna lie, we just want to make it a well crafted lie.

[Mr. Ected]

15. You know what grinds my gears? That Trump's arrogant disdain for the rule of law is lauded

By so many millions of Americans.

The inmates are indeed running the asylum.

[MFM008]

17. Rosanne found out

Today she was not to big to FIRE.
Asshole is going to find put the same thing
Soon enough
Review ALL the evidence AGAINST him.....

[Marcuse]

18. Demand? Who or what does Trump have to offer Mueller?

[Ccarmona]

19. In Other News: Giuliani Wants All the Answers to the Bar Exam

Then he will re-take it.