Robert Mueller and Company are inching closer to questions for Donald Trump….
CNN is reporting that written questions are being worked on for answers by Trump lawyer’s….
One supposes that at some point this Winter or Spring Trump himself WILL finally appear in person to do a Q & A with Mueller’s team….
Lawyers for President Donald Trump are preparing written responses to questions sent by special counsel Robert Mueller, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News Thursday.
The questions, which have been sent back and forth between the two parties and refined for months, will center around Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between Trump’s associates and the Russian government, the source said.
CNN reported the action by Trump’s lawyers earlier Thursday afternoon.
The question-and-answer phase between Trump’s legal team and Mueller follows months of negotiations between the two sides over the format and subject matter of a potential interview with the president, and could signal a major shift in the pace of the ongoing probe.
Mueller may send more questions back to Trump’s lawyers after the first round are answered, CNN reported. Additionally, the possibility of a sit-down interview between Trump and Mueller’s investigators is still being debated.
“There are ongoing discussions with the Office of Special Counsel and we cannot discuss publicly the contents of those discussions,” Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow told NBC News on Thursday….
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