Perjury Claims At Kavanaugh Show Why Trump Won’t Talk To Mueller thefederalist.com/2018/10/04/the…
Watching the Kavanaugh hearing play out was President Trump. The alacrity with which the Kavanaugh story went from being about attempted rape to alleged perjury was surely not lost on him.
For over a year now, pressure has mounted for him to make himself available to the Robert Mueller probe into Russian interference in the election. His attorneys, most notably Giuliani, have again and again asserted that they will not allow Trump to take part in a perjury trap
While most on the left have laughed this off, and suggested that if the president just tells the truth he has nothing to worry about, what happened to Kavanaugh is incontrovertible evidence that such a position is stuff and nonsense.
It is absolutely clear that Democrats and many in the media latched onto laughable examples of supposed lying under oath and ran with them until they ran out of gas. Can there be any doubt that the exact same thing would happen were Trump to testify w/out limitations to Mueller?
If Mueller asked Trump whether he has ever done drugs and Trump said no, does anyone think it’s unlikely that two people could come forward saying they saw him blowing lines at Studio 54?
If questions about business dealings emerge, can we doubt that Democrats and their media allies would be pulling out shovels digging for anyone, regardless of how credible that could cast doubt on his claims?
In an ideal world, Trump would testify before Mueller with a limited scope of questions to help get to the bottom of very real concerns about Russian interference.
But the bad faith with which Democrats and the news media have approached Kavanaugh’s testimony has to make him and his attorneys extremely wary of doing any such thing. And who can blame them?
What we have seen over the past week gives us no sense at all that those who oppose Trump are acting in anything even approaching good faith.
When and if the time comes that Mueller wants to interview Trump, it seems less likely than ever that his attorneys will allow him to do it without a fight. Before the shambolic treatment of Kavanaugh, that might have seemed cynical. Now it just seems like plain old common sense.
