Trump Would Be Stupid To Talk To Mueller By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2018-08-15 at 12:53:15 )

Trump Would Be Stupid to Talk to Mueller by Jacob G. Hornberger

The United States mainstream press is obviously becoming increasingly anxious about Special Counsel (and former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director) Robert Muellers efforts to bring an early end to Donald Trumps presidency.

After all, it has now been 15 months (and millions of taxpayer dollars) since Mueller received his special appointment, and he still has not charged Trump with any wrongdoing whatsoever.

What Mueller has done is secure indictments against a few Russians who, according to Wikipedia, supposedly attempted "to trick Americans into consuming Russian propaganda that targeted Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and later President-elect Donald Trump."

Big deal. I can not help wonder which Americans ended up being tricked by that dangerous, mind-altering Russian propaganda. Maybe they ought to sue their public schools for educational malpractice.

Currently, Mueller is spending his time and United States taxpayer money going after former Donald Trump campaign official Paul Manafort. The charges?? Income-tax violations and bank fraud.

But is it not the job of the Justice Department to go after people who are accused of those types of crimes??

Why is Muellers special team prosecuting Manafort??

Could it be because Mueller is hoping to secure a conviction against Manafort that will enable him to squeeze Manafort into providing some incriminating evidence against Trump, even if it involves matters that do not relate to the anti-Russia brouhaha, such as tax or regulatory violations??

Could it be that Mueller is hoping to turn Manafort into another Rick Gates, the man who Mueller has given special treatment for agreeing to rat out Manafort?

Meanwhile, increasingly desperate over the passage of 15 months and still no charges by Mueller against Trump, the mainstream press is doing its best to pressure and manipulate Trump into agreeing to be interviewed by Mueller. The New York Times, for example, titles its August 13 editorial with "There Is No Need to Fear Mueller, Mr. President - if You Have Nothing to Hide".

Oh, but there is something to fear!!

It is called a "perjury trap." It is a favorite tactic of federal prosecutors, especially ones who want to punish people but have insufficient evidence to convict them of what they want to convict them of.

Recall, for example, Martha Stewart. Federal officials told her that they just wanted to interview her about supposed "insider trading," one of the ludicrous economic crimes on the federal books. Stupidly, she agreed to the interview. It turned out to be a perjury trap. They never charged her with "insider trading" but they did charge her for supposedly lying to federal investigators. She got convicted of lying, not insider trading, and they sent her away to federal jail.

That is why Mueller wants to interview President Trump. He is hoping that Donald Trump slips up and tells a lie, which will then enable him to go after Trump for the lie rather than supposedly "colluding" with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Let us get one thing clear: President Trump has no obligation whatsoever to help Mueller with his investigation. If Mueller can not get enough evidence to charge Trump with unlawfully "colluding” with Russia, that is his problem. He can not expect Trump to sit down and assist him with his investigation of Trump.

Would Mueller hesitate to get Trump on some other charge, like possible income-tax evasion, building-code violations, foreign construction-related bribery, or making some false statement to Mueller during an interview??

Well, duh!!

After 15 months of failing to come up with charges against Donald Trump for "colluding" with Russia, do you think he wants to issue a final report that lets Trump off the hook but trumpets his big "successes" in going after people for income-tax violations, bank fraud, or failing to comply with some 1938 FDR-era law requiring foreigners to register as foreign agents??

After 15 months and millions of dollars, Mueller will take anything he can get that will enable him to charge Donald Trump with something.

President Trump would be stupid to talk to Mueller. All that he would be doing would be the same thing that Martha Stewart did - giving federal prosecutors the opportunity to go after him on some slip-up during the interview.

President Trump should continue telling Mueller to put up or shut up and to stop pleading with Trump to assist him with his ridiculous anti-Russia investigation against Donald Trump.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!