President Trump's attorney Ty Cobb says the president is "very eager" to speak to special counsel Robert Mueller for his Russia investigation. In an interview with CBS News' chief White House correspondent Major Garrett on this week's "The Takeout" podcast, Cobb said Mr. Trump wants to put the matter to rest, and he told Garrett there are "active discussions" about a special counsel interview, but no formal request has yet been made.
It is Cobb's belief that the Mueller investigation will ultimately be immaterial to Mr. Trump and his presidency. Cobb said he expects it to be wrapped up in 4-6 weeks.
"There's a big difference between a shooting star and a planet," Cobb told Garrett, referring to the big headlines for the legal issues of Papadopoulos, Manafort and Flynn. Cobb said he believes these pleas and indictment will not impact the president.
"I think it's more than appropriate for the Mueller people to explore anything they're interested in," Cobb said. Cobb said he is focused on "getting the facts out."
But despite this, he said he considers the investigation to be a drag on the presidency. "It's very difficult for him to do anything other than to fight for his place in history," Cobb said.
Cobb said if Mueller did interview Mr. Trump, it could be a perjury trap -- that is, a situation in which his story does not match the evidence -- something Cobb said "foolish" was not to consider. But Cobb said he has known Mueller for a long time, and doesn't believe that is his aim.
Interesting term "perjury trap."
Is it a "trap" to ask somebody a question to which they then provide a false answer?
Because the simple solution to that is to not fucking lie to the Special Counsel.
But apparently Cobb realizes that his client cannot be expected to do that, so of course he is worried that he will perjure himself.
And do you know what? He is undoubtedly correct.
Since we are all witness to the daily trump lie, it's really not a trap.
ReplyDeleteStupid Ty Cobb is doing what all lawyers do.
Simply stating the obvious.
In other words, trumps lies will catch up to him,if interviewed by Mueller.
The stupid scrum sucking "dicktator"!!!!
dick~tator~tot!!!!
Deletebitch please!~
DeleteWhat a smarmy, little pustule on the ass of the orange shitgibbon. And that mustache is such a laughable, pathetic affectation.
ReplyDelete"Who vants a mustache ride?!"
DeleteTrump lies, and lies, and lies, and lies, and lies .....
ReplyDeleteThis is well known. And he will continue to lie. Talk about an easy trap to set. Simply ask him a question. The goober love it when he lies. They think it has something to do with making American great again, whatever that means. I guess no health insurance, no environmental protects, no workplace protects, diminished Medicare and SS, and wealthier rich folks is a start for these yahoos.
For some reason whenever I see this guy I just want to make myself a piping hot bowl of oatmeal.
ReplyDeleteDon't know why.
He strikes me more of the civil war reenactor type.
DeleteI think I'll go watch the movie, Cocoon, while eating some oatmeal.
Deleteinstead of the renaissance fair type lol?
DeleteHaha, the Quaker oats guy!
DeleteNew names for Trump
ReplyDeleteWhimpy Don
Donny Bag of Burgers
One Term Don
Mitch's Bitch.
Quarter term Don.
DeleteDullard Drumpf
DeletePresident Shithole
Donald Judas Trump
Spankin’ Don.
Doggy Donald; to discipline him, just smack him on the nose with a rolled up magazine, preferably Forbes.
Benedict Donald
DeleteThat filthy Muller and his gotcha questions ain't gonna take down our spandapilous president! I'll bet my polyestastic, spastic Piper on it! Dontcha know?
ReplyDeleteThere is a simple way to avoid being charged with perjury: TELL THE TRUTH.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if you have no idea what the truth is, if you lie as easily and as often as the rest of us breathe, there's not much hope for you.
Trump Rails Against Laws Allowing Babies To Be 'Born In The Ninth Month' Of Pregnancy
ReplyDelete...“Right now, a number of state laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong. It has to change,” he proclaimed.
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS. The law allows a baby to be BORN in the ninth month! Holy crap.
I'm assuming he really meant to use the word "torn" but he never corrected himself because why would he when he is the smartest, best, highest-scoring cognitive test taker on the planet? Really, why would he?
Meanwhile, those self-righteous sanctimonious crones and cronies he was speaking to have no problem with CHIP not being renewed or the government shutting down as long as they have a "president" who would gladly climb up into women's vaginas and put a padlock on them until they've been forced to give birth to a baby who will have no food, heat, housing or health insurance.
Trump wasn't even paying attention to what he was saying because he doesn't give a damn about women, babies or abortion. He's just a mouthpiece for the zealots.
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/trump-rails-against-laws-allowing-babies
Either he is an idiot and has no idea what the true purpose of a Caesarian section is....or he’s talking about anchor babies. Of which he is guilty, renting to Russian mothers to give birth in his condos.
DeleteMaybe he was checking out a woman.
DeleteDang just talk with no intelligence.
Of course it is!
ReplyDeleteNo shit, Sherlock!
ReplyDeletePoll: Trump losing Republicans one year in office
ReplyDeleteOne day before the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, his approval rating sits at 32 percent, with 55 percent disapproving of his work in office and 12 percent neutral, according to the joint University of Southern California-Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times national poll. The same poll found Trump had a 40 percent approval to 47 percent disapproval rating back in April, representing a huge drop for the head of the Republican Party.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/poll-trump-losing-republicans-one-year-in-office/
Worst approval ratings EVER.
DeleteHe is going to lose the MidTerms for the Death Party. And they will place the blame at his feet.
The question is, what will they do about it? Will they really impeach him? Maybe they’re just waiting for Mueller to give them an excuse.
Simply asking Trump to testify is a perjury trap, since the man can’t talk for five minutes without lying. He can’t remember shit and will contradict himself constantly. Either that or it will be a constant string of “I don’t recall” from Mr. best memory of anyone believe me stable genius.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. If Mueller questions Trump it will only be a matter of how many times and about how many different things he committed perjury.
Although the argument can be made that you can’t be accused of perjury unless you willfully lie. I don’t think Trump willfully or intentionally lies. I think he lies but I think he has no clue he is actually lying because he can’t remember anything he’s said. I think that’s why he repeats stuff, to help him remember. I think he *truly* believes he is telling the truth, no matter what he says. Bet he’d pass a lie detector with flying colors.
I disagree. People who are highly manipulative who say anything to get what they want do not understand they lie. In their mind it is right and just to get what they want. They are entitled. They are convinced the only thing that matters is that they win. They are void of truth, morals, principals aka unscrupulous people.
DeleteI disagree too. Trump knows exactly what he is doing. He is a liar and now a scared liar to face reality. He has his tits in a ringer.
DeleteAnon at 7:48 pm. Trump likes the sound of his own voice too much. Once he gets started, he can't stop and keeps saying wilder and stupider things. After the first five seconds, the exaggerations and then the lies just keep flooding out. That's how he got caught claiming to have a "relationship" with N. Korea's leader.
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I had a student once that could never shut up. Really. He was constantly talking, first to the person on his left, then the right. After a while they just stopped listening and he never noticed. Once I stood in front of him while this was going on and he never noticed until the class just started laughing. He was clueless they were laughing AT him, but eventually noticed and thought it might have been something I said and stopped and looked at me and saw I was standing right in front of him. I said “You were talking again.” And he denied it. It was “ I just said.” “That’s talking.” “No I was just telling.” “That’s talking.” To him saying, telling, explaining wasn’t talking.
DeleteHe was clueless he was constantly talking and in denial of it. I have no doubt if I had a video showing him constantly talking he would deny that too. To acknowledge it would destroy him.
That’s Trump with lies. They’re not lies to him because he absolutely believes everything that comes out of his mouth and since he can’t remember everything he says he can’t acknowledge anything as a lie. He believes his crowds were bigger, he got more votes, etc. It is tied to his malignant narcissistic ego but he is also oblivious to it. It’s the toddler/tantrum side.
If you gave him a lie detector test, he’d pass.
His mind can never acknowlege that he told a lie. It would be like the computer in Star Trek. His mind would self-destruct.
8+ comments on one fairly small thread... lengthy ones too that no-one is going to bother reading... maybe you and your student have more in common than you know.
DeleteI find it interesting that Cobb claims that Trump “has to fight for his place in history.”
ReplyDeleteI’d say Trump’s history is already assured. It just won’t be kind to him.
"It's very difficult for him to do anything other than to fight for his place in history," Cobb said.
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Oh, you already have your place in history, dotard, after a mere year. Pssst: It's not the "greatest" without a derogatory adjective attached.
Bill Maher returns tonight!
ReplyDeleteThere was one thing he wanted to put in, Wolff said, but told Maher, “I didn’t have the blue dress.”
Delete“It’s about somebody’s he’s f*cking right now?” asked Maher asked.
“Yes,” Wolff said. “You just have to read between the lines.”
“Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph, you’ll say, ‘Bingo,’” he added.
HOPE HICKS!
DeleteDeutsche Bank reported questionable transactions involving President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, or people or businesses near him, to German securities regulators and will forward the info to special prosecutor Robert Mueller. @manager_magazin #DeutscheBank #JaredKushner
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/HandelsblattGE/status/954388587939852288
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/german-robert-mueller-kushner/7469/
WTF? "It's very difficult for him to do anything other than to fight for his place in history," Cobb said.
ReplyDeleteTrump already has assured his place in history: At the very bottom of the pile; lower than whale shit; at the top of the late night comics' list; a laughingstock; the most incompetent president ever.
No it's not. A real leader rises above and last time we had a real leader who did not play golf every weekend, did not use twitter to demean people and call them childish nicknames, did not screw porn stars while they were married, did not demean the press because they were butt hurt, did not give out "Fake news awards" because they were butt hurt, did not turn the office of the Precidency into a shit show to appeace their fragile ego.
DeleteTrump will have a place in history but so doe's Nero who fiddled while Rome burned.
I see Trump as more of a Caligula.
DeleteWhile true Nero was a racist and real estate developer, Caligula was just plain nuts. Just look at all of the “horses” that Trump is making “senators.”
Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier of the House Intelligence Committee appeared on CNN today and stated “I think there is plenty of evidence to suggest that there has been money laundering going on in many of the real estate deals that were done by the Trump Organization.” She added that “If you start tracking these various projects, you can see a connection, you can see a relationship.” (link). She’s clearly firing another warning shot at Trump and his allies. But why now?
ReplyDeleteThis comes just hours after the Republican Chairman of that same committee, Devin Nunes, who is himself a co-conspirator in the Trump-Russia scandal, began talking about a supposed “secret memo” that will somehow exonerate Trump in the Russia scandal and incriminate President Obama instead. Rather obviously, the memo doesn’t exist. This is a bluff of the strangest and most desperate variety, a last ditch effort slapped together by Trump and his allies to try to muddy the waters of an investigation that’s likely to send everyone from Trump to Nunes to prison.
It appears that Congresswoman Speier is firing off another warning shot in Donald Trump’s direction, just in case he and his allies get any funny ideas about releasing some kind of fake “memo” they’ve whipped up to try to cause trouble.
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/democrats-money-laundering-donald-trump/7470/
California Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, is making the accusation that past Trump Organization real estate deals show evidence of money laundering.
..."If you start tracking these various projects, you can see a connection, you can see a relationship," she said later in the interview.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/politics/jackie-speier-money-laundering-accusations/index.html
From what I read, rumors say the memo to which Nunes refers is a piece of shit put together by Republicans on the House Intell Committee that claims there was a huge conspiracy within the FBI to sink Trump. Their "evidence" is emails from/between FBI agents that were critical of Trump along with cherry-picked material from classified material.
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/gop-staffers-wrote-the-secret-memo-trump-backing-republicans-are-trying-to-release/
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ReplyDeleteMy daughter will be at the Women’s March tomorrow . . . and I’m not happy about it.
You see, my daughter is marching for the same thing that
her mother marched for 25 years ago
that
her grandmother marched for 50 years ago
that
her great-grandmother marched for 75 years ago
that
her great-great-grandmother marched for 100 years ago.
25 years from now, will my granddaughter be marching for what her mother will march for tomorrow -- which is the same thing her grandmother marched for . . . . . . .
WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE WE STILL PROTESTING THIS SHIT?????
This is the Rebublican party for you.
DeleteLess government! Get out of my business! unless your a woman or gay and then they want to dictate what you should do.
You know how to end this abortion debate? Here's how every father takes full responsibility for their kids. If you outlaw abortion than from now on the woman has the right to require the father of the child to take full responsibilty for that child.
Sorry, but can you please explain in detail exactly what the march is about, and how it compares to any other women's marches as in goals or accomplishments, break each 'march' down independently.
DeleteWomen are allowed to vote, run for office, and hold any job as any man in this country are they not?
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/donald-trump-resembles-a-mad-roman-emperor-but-is-he-more-like-nero-or-caligula/
ReplyDeleteCaligula from day 1
Rep. Adam Schiff: White House canceled Hope Hicks interview
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/rep-adam-schiff-white-house-canceled-hope-hicks-interview/
But he's a genius! How could he possibly end up ensnared in a perjury trap?!
ReplyDelete"Ty Cobb" the attorney looks like he belongs in a third-rate circus side show. He could appear with his sidekick, Orange Man.
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