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<blockquote data-quote="newfie" data-source="post: 4077419" data-attributes="member: 58700"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/john-dowd-feared-trump-incapable-of-interview-with-robert-mueller.html" target="_blank">&#039;There&#039;s no way he could&#039;: Trump&#039;s ex-lawyer John Dowd feared the president was incapable of an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller</a>“It’s not whether he lies, or not. Everybody wants to get into this you know, this integrity business. It’s not a matter of integrity, it’s overload.”Dowd noted that Trump and the rest of the president’s legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, ended up following his advice, by having the president answer questions from Mueller in writing, as opposed to in person.“They never disagreed with me,” said Dowd, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/john-dowd-out-as-trump-lawyer-in-special-counsels-russia-probe-nyt.html" target="_blank">who resigned last March as Trump’s lead lawyer for Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference</a> in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel also is investigating possible collusion by Trump’s campaign in that interference, along with possible obstruction of justice by the president himself.Dowd suggested that if Trump spoke to Mueller’s team in person he would be putting himself at risk of the special counsel alleging he made false statements.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newfie, post: 4077419, member: 58700"] [URL="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/john-dowd-feared-trump-incapable-of-interview-with-robert-mueller.html"]'There's no way he could': Trump's ex-lawyer John Dowd feared the president was incapable of an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller[/URL] “It’s not whether he lies, or not. Everybody wants to get into this you know, this integrity business.[B] It’s not a matter of integrity, it’s overload.”[/B] Dowd noted that Trump and the rest of the president’s legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, ended up following his advice, by having the president answer questions from Mueller in writing, as opposed to in person. “They never disagreed with me,” said Dowd, [URL='https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/john-dowd-out-as-trump-lawyer-in-special-counsels-russia-probe-nyt.html'][U]who resigned last March as Trump’s lead lawyer for Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference[/U][/URL] in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel also is investigating possible collusion by Trump’s campaign in that interference, along with possible obstruction of justice by the president himself. Dowd suggested that if Trump spoke to Mueller’s team in person he would be putting himself at risk of the special counsel alleging he made false statements. [/QUOTE]

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