Cont: Mueller Investigation pt3

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TBH, the TimeCube is probably more incoherent than the current POTUS.
 
Stacyhs said:
There was never any doubt in my mind that Trump would never willingly allow himself to be interviewed by Mueller. The reason is obvious even to his lawyers: the man cannot speak without lying. He's incapable of it, especially when he feels he is defending himself in any way. He has little self-control and would just impulsively say something that would incriminate himself. Of course, he and his supporters would cry "Perjury trap!"

By getting the questions in writing, his lawyers will edit whatever he says. We won't be getting his answers; we'll be getting his lawyers' revision of those answers.
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I think they should give him a box of crayons and a roll of butcher's paper, lock him in a room, and let him write his own answers.
 
Stacyhs said:
By getting the questions in writing, his lawyers will edit whatever he says. We won't be getting his answers; we'll be getting his lawyers' revision of those answers.
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Substitute "diplomat" for "lawyer" (a distinction without a difference) and you'll get a taste of what historians have to deal with every working day. It hardly bears thinking about.
"We" won't get the answers until the Mueller archive is released. What we'll get is self-serving pap, amplified by FoxNews, about how unfair and trappy the questions were and how devastating Trump's responses are; dearly though he'd love to reveal them, the Dems won't let him.

Also the Stock Market "readjustment", Trump was expecting that, OK?
 
phiwum said:
I'm leaning to the fact she is a moron, rather than the Ivy League thing.

Trump is a moron too, well worthy of mockery (despite the bizarre fact he became president). So, it's not the Ivy League education that matters.

I should say that Palin is better than Trump in one respect: she's deserves less scorn than he. Maybe less mockery, too.
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pgwenthold said:
Yeah, it wasn't just that she wwnt to Idaho St, it's that she was a C student at Idaho St. Sure, she would have been cut some slack if she were a C student at Yale (see GWBush), but also if she were an A student at Idaho St.

Then again, were she not such a blithering idiot, she wouldn't have been a C student at Idaho St.

Make no mistake, I have no bias against non-prestigeous schools. Absolutely outstanding students come from them. Sarah Palin isn't one of them.
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"What fascinates me is: people watching her on television - can they not see that she's basically learned certain speeches? She does them very well, she's got a very good memory, but it's like a nice-looking parrot,"

"Because the parrot speaks beautifully and kind of says 'aw shucks' every now and again, but doesn't really have any understanding of the meaning of the words it is producing, even though it's producing them very accurately."

"She's been in these training sessions with Cheney's pals, and she's learned these speeches, and the extraordinary thing is that so many people are taken in by it..."

- John Cleese (on Sarah Palin)
 
Stacyhs said:
No,, says the man who wrote much of what he's famous for including Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda, The Frost Report and several others.
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A man who is also very well-spoken in unrehearsed interviews and is a master of funny ad- libs.
 
Roger Ramjets said:
Says the man whose main talent is remembering lines from a script.
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I can't think of anyone more qualified to judge if someone is remembering and speaking rehearsed lines from scripts, than someone who made a living for 30 years of his adult life, remembering and speaking rehearsed lines from scripts, and further to that, who also for the other 30 years of his adult life, made a living creating and producing corporate training videos, which involves writing scripts, and teaching people to, you guessed it, remember and speak rehearsed lines from those scripts.
 
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smartcooky said:
I can't think of anyone more qualified to judge if someone is remembering and speaking rehearsed lines from scripts, than someone who made a living for 30 years of his adult life, remembering and speaking rehearsed lines from scripts, and further to that, who also for the other 30 years of his adult life, made a living creating and producing corporate training videos, which involves writing scripts, and teaching people to, you guessed it, remember and speak rehearsed lines from those scripts.
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Roger Ramjets rather walked into that one, didn't he?
 
Stacyhs said:
By getting the questions in writing, his lawyers will edit whatever he says. We won't be getting his answers; we'll be getting his lawyers' revision of those answers.
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Yes, but given the quality of his lawyers the answers will undoubtedly still contain statements that Mueller can prove are lies.
 
For an Obstruction case, Mueller needs some insight into Trump's state of mind. By refusing an interview, Trump is asking to have his public record speak for him, plus whatever witnesses say.
Lou Dobbs thought that this was less risky than letting Trump speak.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
For an Obstruction case, Mueller needs some insight into Trump's state of mind. By refusing an interview, Trump is asking to have his public record speak for him, plus whatever witnesses say.
Lou Dobbs thought that this was less risky than letting Trump speak.
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It's been reported that Mueller has finished the obstruction portion of his investigation.
 
slyjoe said:
Not only lock him into a position, but answers could be compared with what Mueller knows from other witnesses. Don't you think Mueller has answers to all the questions he is asking Trump?
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I think Mueller has answers to many of them, and Trump (and his lawyers) don't know which ones Mueller already knows.

And that's the perjury trap, IMO. If Trump answers everything truthfully, he'll probably be giving Mueller some incriminating info that Mueller didn't already have. If he lies, he risks lying about stuff that Mueller already knows and exposing himself to perjury charges.
 
dasmiller said:
I think Mueller has answers to many of them, and Trump (and his lawyers) don't know which ones Mueller already knows.

And that's the perjury trap, IMO. If Trump answers everything truthfully, he'll probably be giving Mueller some incriminating info that Mueller didn't already have. If he lies, he risks lying about stuff that Mueller already knows and exposing himself to perjury charges.
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Agree in general, but not sure actual perjury applies.
 
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