Yes, attorneys for an ordinary person in Trump’s circumstances would strongly advise him not to voluntarily answer questions from Mueller’s team. That advice would be amped up a thousand-fold by the reality-bending nature of Trump’s ordinary discourse, and the attendant additional legal jeopardy that presents. Under ordinary circumstances, although little is ordinary when a president is under criminal investigation, political considerations constrain legal strategy. “Clinton’s political advisers told him that it was like placing a loaded gun to his head,” Ken Gormley wrote in his authoritative account of the investigation. But buying Trump’s narrative would make chumps of us all and a laughingstock of the rule of law.

Source: Washington Post May 04, 2018 21:11 UTC