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keepleft101's JournalTrumps lawyer asks Mueller if Trump can answer investigation questions using teleprompter
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/
U.S. Officials Tell World Leaders To Ignore Trump's Tweets
Source: HuffPost
President Donald Trump’s tweets not only trigger worries at home. They rattle leaders around the world.
But U.S. officials reportedly tried to reassure global policy representatives at an international conference in Germany over the weekend, urging them to pay no attention to the president’s Twitter rants.
The U.S. actually is angry with the Kremlin over interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite Trump’s Twitter denials, American politicians and officials told foreign policy leaders in Munich, The Washington Post reported. America also remains firmly committed to Europe. And, to be clear, the U.S. doesn’t plan on dropping a nuclear bomb on North Korea, the U.S. leaders said.
“The values are the same, the relationships are the same,” insisted Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio), the Post reported.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Saturday he no idea how to judge U.S. intentions. “Is it deeds? Is it words? Is it tweets?” he asked.
The disconnect between Trump’s tweets and U.S. government leaders often has been apparent.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-officials-tell-world-leaders-123104774.html
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