{"id":30852,"date":"2018-07-09T00:33:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30852"},"modified":"2018-07-09T00:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:33:02","slug":"trumps-legal-team-keeps-moving-the-goal-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30852","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s legal team keeps moving the goal posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ll begin by stipulating the obvious, which is that I am not a lawyer.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I am having difficulty understanding the logic of Donald J. Trump’s legal team, which is now insisting that special counsel Robert Mueller produce evidence of a crime before the president agrees to meet with him.<\/p>\n

Eh? What? Huh?<\/p>\n

Mueller is looking into myriad questions surrounding the president’s conduct. They include possible obstruction of justice, collusion with Russian election meddlers, campaign finance violations and maybe some shady business dealings.<\/p>\n

So now we hear that the president’s legal eagles want Mueller to actually have evidence of a crime? Are they suggesting that Muller indict Trump first and then bring him for some Q&A?<\/p>\n

What kind of goofy strategy is that?<\/p>\n

I’ve always understood that a prosecutor — which is the role Mueller is fulfilling — needs to interview witnesses prior<\/em> to compiling criminal complaints that might result in an indictment.<\/p>\n

Trump’s legal team keeps moving the goal posts. Trump keeps changing his tune: He’ll talk to Mueller, then he won’t; he calls Mueller’s probe a “witch hunt” and a “hoax”; then he’s back to wanting “100 percent” to talk to the special counsel.<\/p>\n

The bizarre drama continues.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the other principal in this saga — Robert Mueller — remains the cool, calm professional. He is saying nothing. He is just doing his job.<\/p>\n\n

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I’ll begin by stipulating the obvious, which is that I am not a lawyer. Therefore, I am having difficulty understanding the logic of Donald J. Trump’s legal team, which is now insisting that special counsel Robert Mueller produce evidence of a crime before the president agrees to meet with him. Eh? What? Huh? Mueller is … Continue reading Trump’s legal team keeps moving the goal posts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[1424,3983,7202,7102],"class_list":["post-30852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-meddling","tag-witch-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30853,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions\/30853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}