The leaker-in-chief is at it again

[deminks]

Robert Mueller’s former assistant explains how grammar errors prove ‘leaked questions’ came from Trump

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/robert-muellers-former-assistant-explains-grammar-errors-prove-leaked-questions-came-trump/#.WuhFnA5D678.twitter

A former special assistant to Robert Mueller doesn’t believe for a second that the “leaked questions” came from the special counsel or that those are the questions he’ll ask.

It was revealed Monday that there are 40 questions that Mueller will ask President Donald Trump about the ongoing investigations. The New York Times reported that someone outside of Trump’s legal team leaked the questions. However, Michael Zeldin, who now works as a legal analyst for CNN, told “New Day” that he doesn’t believe these questions came from Mueller.

“We have, this morning, been calling these questions that Mueller propounded, but I don’t believe that that’s actually what these are,” he began. “I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Mueller’s office where he outlined broad topics and these guys wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise.”

He explained that the way the questions are written make it pretty obvious.

“Because of the way these questions are written,” Zeldin explained his methodology. “Lawyers wouldn’t write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper. So, I don’t see this as a list of written questions that Mueller’s office gave to the president. I think these are more notes that the White House has taken and then they have expanded upon the conversation to write out these as questions.”

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[manor321]

1. Story

The NYT story itself says it came from a source outside the White House legal team, which insinuates it came from the White House. So this interpretation is expected given the story.

[uponit7771]

2. Sounds like something Benedict Donald would do so he can wrongly say "nothing about collusion"

... like he did in his tweet recently.

[BSdetect]

3. My impression was that those "questions" were loosely worded. Not legalistic in many cases.

[B2G]

4. So why isn't Mueller denying the questions came from his office?

Seems like a simple enough statement to make.

[PJMcK]

6. Even "No comment" is a comment (n/t)

[MrModerate]

5. In other words, the White House is lying about the questions . . .

Now that's a surprise.