According to NBC, both Mueller’s office and the White House are no longer planning for the president to meet with the special counsel.
Special counsel Robert Mueller‘s team is preparing to move forward with its investigation without interviewing President Trump after a potential meeting was derailed following a raid on the office of Trump’s lawyer, NBC News reported on Thursday.
Both Mueller’s team and Trump’s lawyers are reportedly no longer planning for the interview to take place, apparently ending weeks of growing speculation that Trump could be preparing to talk to investigators.
Mueller’s team was reportedly still in talks with the White House as late as this Monday regarding an interview, but those talks ended later in the day when news broke of the FBI’s raid on Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, according to NBC.
Honestly, I’m surprised Trump isn’t more aggressive against the investigation. The Republicans have shown that they are simply not going to stand up against anything Trump does, so why is he waiting to shut all of this down? The country doesn’t seem to care, and the only people who give a damn probably won’t vote for him or Republicans anyway.
I’m not saying he should do it, but I just don’t understand, given how angry he is about all of this, what exactly is preventing him from doing it.