Special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a source close to President Donald Trump, might interview the president within the next several weeks amid growing questions regarding whether he colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election.
That source told The Washington Post that Trump was open to being interviewed, despite his lawyers’ apparent concerns, and thought sitting down with Mueller might settle concerns about potential collusion.
In a statement, White House lawyer Ty Cobb said he wouldn’t comment on communications with the special counsel’s office. “The White House is continuing its full cooperation with the [Office of Special Counsel] in order to facilitate the earliest possible resolution,” he added.
Mueller’s investigation, which is reportedly “moving faster than anyone really realizes,” resulted in two indictments against former Trump officials but has yet to formally accuse the administration and campaign of collusion. – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian.
Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, reportedly based on more than 200 interviews with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration, is one of the most eagerly awaited political books of the year. In it, Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from crisis to crisis amid internecine warfare, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.
Bannon, who was chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final three months, then White House chief strategist for seven months before returning to the rightwing Breitbart News, is a central figure in the nasty, cutthroat drama, quoted extensively, often in salty language.
He is particularly scathing about a June 2016 meeting involving Trump’s son Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner, then campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York. A trusted intermediary had promised documents that would “incriminate” rival Hillary Clinton but instead of alerting the FBI to a potential assault on American democracy by a foreign power, Trump Jr replied in an email: “I love it.” – READ MORE
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