Trump Threatens To Flex Presidential Powers Over “Witch Hunt” Russia Probe, Schumer Flips Out
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Wed, 05/02/2018
President Trump in a series of Wednesday morning tweets, lashed out against the Mueller probe and the Department of Justice – threatening to “use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved.”
The complaints follow the leak of approximately four-dozen questions the Special Counsel would like to ask the President, ranging from what Trump knew about alleged Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 US election, to whether he tried to obstruct justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey.
Trump and his legal team are engaged in ongoing negotiations with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team over whether the president will agree to be interviewed as part of the Russia (and now Stormy Daniels) investigation. Mueller warned Trump’s lawyers in a March meeting that he could issue a subpoena for the President to testify before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the situation.
Trump had said previously that he would be willing to have a face-to-face meeting with Mueller or his team, but more recently he has wavered on the prospect. Some of Trump’s advisers have counseled that he could risk being accused of perjury if he submits to open-ended questioning from Mueller and provides meandering answers. -Washington Post
Last year Trump said he would be “100%” willing to testify undre oath, while telling ABC News’s Jonathan Karl in January “I would love to do that…I’d like to do it as soon as possible,” adding “You know I think things are still in a lane, working toward a resolution of the interview issue.”
In an earlier Thursday tweet, Trump quoted former US Attorney Joe diGenova, who recently appeared on SiriusXM’s The Michael Smerconish Program where he described Mueller’s probe as “an outrageous, sophomoric, juvenile intrusion into the president’s unfettered power to fire anyone in the executive branch.”
“The questions are an intrusion into the President’s Article 2 powers under the Constitution to fire any Executive Branch Employee,” tweeted Trump, citing deGenova.
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