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And you, Donald, will interrogate
A special prosecutor to investigate Russia's intervention in the American elections Robert Muller at a meeting with lawyers of the US President announced his intention to personally interrogate Donald Trump. It is reported by The Washington Post with reference to two sources.
The special prosecutor has several issues related to the investigation, a source close to the investigation told. Interrogation may take place over the next weeks.
According to the source, Trump himself is ready to answer Müller's questions to demonstrate that his headquarters was not connected with Russia before the presidential election. At the same time, his lawyers do not want the president to attend a personal interrogation without a preliminary list of issues.
Now the investigation, according to the publication, is aimed at studying the details of the meeting in July last year between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya.
The lawyer of President Tai Cobb refused to comment on reports of the upcoming interrogation of Trump. "The White House does not comment on the ties with the office of the special prosecutor out of respect for him and the investigation process he conducted," the lawyer said.
In mid -December, CNN reported that the special prosecutor Müller will meet with the presidential lawyers . At the same time, the apparatus of the special prosecutor did not send requests to the White House to hold a meeting directly with Trump or Vice President Michael Pence. The US President’s lawyers are headed by John Doud and Jay Sokulov. They considered the meeting with Müller as an opportunity to get a clearer idea of the following steps in the investigation.
The meeting of the team members of Trump and Veselnitskaya took place on June 9, 2016. From the American side, the son of Trump, Manafort, as well as the son -in -law of the future president Jared Kushner participated in it. In July 2017, Trump Jr. stated that he was offered on behalf of the Royal Prosecutor (The Crown Prosecutor, presumably the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika) of Russia compromise on Clinton.
Later, in an interview with Fox News, Trump Jr. called the meeting with Veselnitskaya "empty waste of time." According to the son of the president, the conversation was "nothing", and he did not tell his father about him. "I did not even remember this until you began to delve into this nonsense. It was literally just spent 20 minutes, which was just a shame," said Trump Jr. In a statement for the Senate Law Committee, the son of Trump specified that at the meeting Veselnitskaya first spoke of certain people related to Russia who finances Clinton’s campaign, but soon the “Magnitsky Law” was the topic of the conversation.