Trump Doesn't Want Mueller To Testify Because It'll Get Media Coverage

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Source: Talking Points Memo

By Nicole Lafond
May 7, 2019 8:14 am

President Trump’s tweet advising special counsel Robert Mueller not to testify was reportedly posted after days of stewing over the amount of media coverage a Mueller hearing would receive, The Associated Press reported.

Trump reportedly believes that Mueller has become an unfairly favored figured in the mainstream media and Trump has growing concerns that a Mueller testimony would get even more coverage than what his former lawyer Michael Cohen received, according to three White House officials and one Republican who spoke to the AP.

While the Justice Department and the House Judiciary Committee tentatively agreed over the weekend that Mueller would testify before the committee on May 15, Trump is clearly not a fan of the proposition. In a tweet on Sunday, Trump said that Mueller “should not testify” and argued that there should be “no redos for the Dems!”


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Hey head deplorable this isn't some rating game.............................you really are fucking insane......................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.......................

[HopeAgain]

1. That's a narrative helpful to Trump

Trump is afraid that Mueller will say his actions were criminal. Saying he's worried about being outshined negates the man's constant guilty behaviors.

[Bayard]

2. Awwww......

Bless his heart!

[riversedge]

3. chicky chichy

[dawnie51]

4. It's all about the show.....

Mr. PT Barnum here only cares about being the star of the show. He has no understanding of what he's done, the kind of trouble he's in, consequences. It's about ratings and the show. He truly is insane. Very scary stuff.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Mueller is already getting more press coverage.....

Donnie keeps pissing and moaning. Poor thing.

[Kali]

6. Good.

Worry yourself into a heart attack, asshole.

[cstanleytech]

7. Trump wants the media to be talking about Trump and only Trump and if he senses anyone

might pull the media away from him then he takes steps to get the media back onto him.
Take Scaramucci for example and how fast he fired him because Trump did not like the media focusing on him and then there are the multiple absurd twitters the twit keeps posting, those are all meant by Trump to keep the media and the public focused solely on Trump.

[DownriverDem]

8. After Mueller leaves his job

he'll be free to say whatever he wants. So no matter what, we will hear from Mueller.

[duforsure]

9. it also threatens exposing him

as illegitimate, and he and Barr as propagandist.

[patphil]

10. I think what the republicans really want is

to get Mueller in front of a Senate committee first where they control the show and can frame the narrative.
Character assassination would be their goal; claim the whole thing was a plot to destroy Trump and paint Mueller as "out to get" the president who is, of course, absolutely innocent.
Then their position will be that the House shouldn't hear Mueller because the Senate has already shown Mueller to be dishonest in his motives and methods.

It would be best for the Democrats to talk to Mueller first.

Patrick Phillips

[MFM008]

11. Not even a little

Wag the dog war will stop the coverage.