These are supposedly the four main topics initially given to 45*’s lawyers in regards to an interview with the Special Council(sic).
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Circumstances surrounding the #RussianLawyer meeting in Trump Tower (June 2016)
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Trump's role in crafting Don Jr's statement on that meeting
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James Comey's firing
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The "firing" of Mike ‘Misha’ Flynn
The chances are actually stronger that the maneuver will backfire, helping Mueller refine not just any questioning of the president but the investigation as a whole. “Mueller is learning a lot by letting this little passion play over Trump and the interview proceed,” says Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney for Alabama. “Because there’s a lot that’s being said publicly, there’s a lot that’s leaking out from the lawyers. Mueller’s team is learning a lot through this process about how the Trump team views the world. I’m sure Mueller is not drawing out the conversation just for that insight, but nonetheless it’s a highly informative process. You learn what the defense lawyers think is important, how they might react to certain questions, what they’re worried about.”
Negotiations will continue, and will likely grow more complicated with the addition of a new lawyer on the Trump side, Joe diGenova, who has suggested that the F.B.I. set out to frame Trump.
Attorneys familiar with Mueller or his current team increasingly wager that this protracted dance over presidential testimony ends up in court—that Trump will eventually refuse to talk to the special counsel and that Mueller will subpoena him to appear.
“I think Trump will chicken out, and his lawyers will dissuade him from talking because he’s not capable of doing the homework and staying on track,” says Peter Zeidenberg, who was part of the prosecution team in the Scooter Libby leak case and is now a defense attorney in Washington. “And I think his side has all kinds of issues. They don’t know what Michael Flynn has told the government. They don’t know exactly what James Comey and Andrew McCabe have said, what Rick Gates has overheard.
Normally you tell your client, ‘Just tell the truth.’ But the truth could be really bad for Trump.”
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… and then there’s following the money, especially Russian money in 2016.
Officials investigating the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election are scrutinizing newly uncovered financial transactions between the Russian government and people or businesses inside the United States.
Records exclusively reviewed by BuzzFeed News also show years of Russian financial activity within the US that bankers and federal law enforcement officials deemed suspicious, raising concerns about how the Kremlin’s diplomats operated here long before the 2016 election.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, charged with investigating Russian election interference and possible collusion by the Trump campaign, is examining these transactions and others by Russian diplomatic personnel, according to a US official with knowledge of the inquiry. The special counsel has broad authority to investigate “any matters” that “may arise” from his investigation, and the official said Mueller’s probe is following leads on suspicious Russian financial activity that may range far beyond the election.