Late last month, President Trump declared that he’s not only willing to answer questions from Robert Muller, he’s eager to sit down with the special counsel. “I would love to do it, and I would like to do it as soon as possible,” Trump said, adding, “I would do it under oath, absolutely.”
White House attorney Ty Cobb quickly intervened, saying Trump meant that he was ready to meet with Mueller’s investigators, but would be “guided by the advice of his personal counsel.”
Now the New York Times reports that Trump’s legal team has reached an unsurprising decision: they don’t want him talking to Mueller, especially not under oath. The worst case scenario is that Trump’s attorneys think he’s guilty of some Russia-related crime. But the Times suggests there’s a somewhat less damning explanation: they think the president of the United States is innocent, but incapable of telling the truth. “His lawyers are concerned that the president, who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself, could be charged with lying to investigators,” the paper reports.
