Trumps lawyer asks Mueller if Trump can answer investigation questions using teleprompter
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Source: The Washington Post
Citing the Constitution’s Article XII, Trump’s legal team has requested that it be allowed to type and display President Trump’s answers to investigator Robert S. Mueller III’s questions onto a teleprompter for him to read. Article XII of the Constitution is an addition to the document by Trump, stating that “Special consideration is due to President Trump, because if left to his own devices, he is likely to make up things, such as this Article.” Citing this authority and all the rights granted to the president by its implications, his legal advisers are insisting that Trump should not be expected to answer truthfully if unassisted, because he will make up so many things that lying is almost inevitable.
Instead, drawing on the experience that the media has said he sounds almost presidential when reading from a teleprompter things that others wrote, answering in this way could make him appear almost honest. “It’s not enough that we coach him ahead of time,” members of his team asserted in legal briefs they wore to match the briefs Trump wears when watching television and tweeting, “because he won’t pay attention to us, won’t remember what we said, and will make up things contrary to our counsel. This is unfair to him.”
They also asked Mueller whether he could ask his questions of Trump on stage at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, where the crowd could vet the questions through jeering and catcalls. The commotion would both demonstrate which Mueller questions were “out of line” (all of them) and would give the lawyers time to type up some legalese sufficiently cagey as to protect Trump from incriminating himself over and over again.
The lawyers further asked whether the veracity of the exchange could be “scored” by crowd reaction, both to the questions and the answers. Such scoring would be legally binding in courts at all levels, and ratified by means of military parade.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/opinions/wp/2018/02/26/trumps-lawyer-asks-mueller-if-trump-can-answer-investigation-questions-using-teleprompter/
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AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)
Edit: Goddamn, I totally fell for that. Fuck me.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)and Shitler reality these days.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I don't know how The Onion, and the Daily Show are going to survive these tumultuous times.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)
Bayard
(29,687 posts)He can't have someone else answer for him! I can't believe Mueller would go for that.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)
Pachamama
(17,564 posts)
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)Anyone with any experience with Alzheimer's patients will clearly assess Trumpy's cognitive patterns as early stage Alzheimer's. His lawyers are trying to shield him from his own symptoms. Trumpy is doing an admirable job with masking his symptoms, but that's all he has going for him. When faced with Mueller's demand that he use higher level cognitive operations, with no way to mask his symptoms with emotionally-based tactics, his mental problems will be glaringly obvious. It's an impossible task for his attorneys, but they're being paid top dollar to defend the indefensible.
exboyfil
(18,359 posts)The prosecution showed mercy because he was on his way out the door. Also afraid that a "beloved" figure could spin aggressive questioning in Reagan's favor. Trump has neither of these elements going for him.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)Saying the opposite. Lying to cover what he does not know.
Dementia is short term memory loss. Advances to Alzheimer’s. His Dad, Fred had it.often goes down generations.
azureblue
(2,728 posts)Trump has been using prescription uppers which have made him delusional.. He doesn't have Alzheimers - he is just a druggie.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)Let's just put a camera in Shitler's bathroom while he's tweeting on the can at 4:00 am. Mueller can ask his questions via Twitter. Shitler responds by flushing: 1 flush means 'yes', 2 flushes means 'no'.
Tommy_Carcetti
(44,498 posts)Funny, but not intended as news.
Grammy23
(6,122 posts)My first reaction was to check to see if it was The Onion.
While satire, it is totally plausible to me that tRump’s lawyers have, no doubt, considered some variation of this scheme to save tRump from tRump. Spend five minutes with this sorry excuse of a human being and it is clear he ain’t hitting on all cylinders. They know full well that an extensive interrogation of tRump would spell disaster for him AND themselves. They really must be burning the midnight oil trying to figure out a way to not have any face to face interrogation. But short of that maybe a printed set of questions could be given to tRump (and his team of lawyers, family and advisors) to go over and then answer in printed format. Kind of like an Open Book Test. It would be “answer by committee.” I can’t wait to see what kind of fairy tales they’d invent.
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getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)What a flippin joke.
The puppetmaster will now testify!
bucolic_frolic
(55,137 posts)he'll be unable to hear or read, so there went that interview capacity. Too bad, move along, they were only trying to collude against him who sees no evil, sees no evil, speaks no evil. Read my lips.
onecaliberal
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riversedge
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logosoco
(3,211 posts)What? IS this a dream/nightmare? Because this cannot really be happening with the leader of the US in the 21st century.
Where are the grown ups? Or even anyone with a high school education.
Okay, they got me! And it's not even April Fools Day! But just the fact that this does seem possible is kind of scary!
George II
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George II
(67,782 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....that something like this can seem credible with this president!
BumRushDaShow
(169,755 posts)You should post in General Discussion for a laugh!
EarlG
(23,631 posts)Please feel free to repost in General Discussion.