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Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller, said Tuesday he believes President Trump leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.
"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," Zeldin said on CNN's "New Day."
"Because of the way these questions are written ... lawyers wouldn't write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper," he continued. "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."
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/news/385602-muellers-former-assistant-says-grammatical-errors-prove-leaked-questions-came%3famp
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)If they say these came from Mueller, they didnt.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)Mueller is saying nothing.
And the clown car just keeps spinning it's wheels and sinking deeper.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)is how it is being investigated.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)The moron's legal team probably wrote down the questions when discussing them with Mueller and that they leaked them . The reason for doing it is anyone's guess.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)Trying to make repubs in congress shut Mueller down, most likely.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I don't think that's what happened.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)as far as I know.
Let them squirm, it is a beautiful thing.
procon
(15,805 posts)Trump's WH is so incompetent they can't even write a correct sentence or put a english major on staff to do the work for them. It reminds me of the school kid who tried to write his own absentee excuse and then signed it with, "Mom".
randr
(12,408 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)I figured it came from tRump.
RockRaven
(14,783 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)Ok I can believe it.
kst
(69 posts)The Hill article says that Michael Zeldin believes President Trump leaked the list, but that's not supported by the quotes.
I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Muellers office where he outlined broad topics and these guys wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise, Zeldin said on CNN's "New Day."
Because of the way these questions are written ... lawyers wouldnt write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper," he continued. "So, I dont see this as a list of written questions that Muellers 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.
It doesn't seem likely that Trump personally leaked the questions, but apparently somebody in the White House did so, probably without Trump's knowledge. (In a normal administration, "The White House" is nearly synonymous with "The President". This is not a normal administration.)
Also, Trump's tweet says it's "disgraceful" that the questions were leaked, but he doesn't say anything about who leaked them. His disgust could be directed to the leaker within his own White House.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)think it was Charlie Pierce on the Stephanie Miller show.
Damn near had an accident I was laughing so hard.
Pierce also said that most likely it was Ghoulie who released the questions.
AdamGG
(1,275 posts)Imagine how incoherent the questions would be if Trump was the one who transcribed them.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)or telling the truth. OR of anything except cheating. OR of decent behavior, morals or ethics.
orangecrush
(19,236 posts)Thanks!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Use it every single time a Repuke opens its mouth!