Trump descends into babbling chaos as he tries to explain why he won’t do an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Trump was asked, “Have you changed your mind at all about being willing to stay with Robert Mueller?”
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The president answered with a total meltdown:
Well, the problem with sitting is this. You have a group of investigators and they say that I am not a target. And I’m not a target. But you have a group of investigators that are all Democrats. In some cases, they went to the Hillary Clinton celebration that turned out to be a funeral. So you have all these investigators that are Democrats.
In all fairness, Bob Mueller worked for Obama for eight years. You look at the statements that were made, if you take a look as an example, at the rod Rosenstein letter, to me, prior to the firing of James Comey, just read it. Put it in the air. You’re viewers don’t know about put that letter on the air. It’s very much speaks very loudly and that’s just one thing. So I would say this. If I could be — I would love to speak. I would love to. Nobody wants to speak more than me. In fact, against my lawyers, because most lawyers say never speak on anything. I would love to speak because we’ve done nothing wrong. There was no collusion with the Russians, there was nothing, there was no obstruction. You know, very funny. If you fight back because you see something wrong or they Leake leak like they’ve been doing if you fight back they say, oh, that’s obstruction of justice. Somebody says something wrong, you fight back, they say that’s obstruction of justice. It’s nonsense.
So let me just — wait. Wait. Let me just tell you. So I would love to speak. I would love to go. Nothing I want to do more because we did nothing wrong. We ran a great campaign. We won easily. We won that easily 306 to 223. We won it easily. That was a great victory. That was a great day for this country. We just had new job numbers, so we broke four. I would love to go, I would love to speak, but I have to find that we’re going to be treated fairly. Wait. I have to find that we’re going to be treated fairly. Because everybody sees it now and it’s a pure witch hunt. Right now it’s a pure witch hunt. Why don’t we have Republicans looking also? Why aren’t we having Republican people doing what all these Democrats are doing? It is a very unfair thing. If I thought it was fair, I would override my lawyers.
What we learned from Trump’s rambling wreck of an answer is that Rudy Giuliani’s sole purpose as Trump’s lawyer is to agree with him that the Russia investigation is a witch hunt. Trump thinks that all of the Republicans running the Russia investigation are Democrats. Trump also thinks that making him answer questions truthfully is “unfair.” The president is still mentally trapped in the 2016 election. Donald Trump thinks that breaking the law and obstructing justice is ok, because he is the president, and he is allowed to “fight back.”
This was an epic Trump meltdown. The Russia investigation has consumed Trump. Robert Mueller better get that subpoena ready, because it sounds like Trump won’t be coming in for an interview.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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