Only a fool would voluntarily talk to Robert Mueller

No American should volunteer to talk to investigators. That goes for President Trump too.

Trump in the hot seat?
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to talk to President Trump as part of his probe into Russian election meddling. And Trump indicated last month that he wants to talk, too. "I'm looking forward to it, actually," the president said, taking pains to inform his assembled audience of journalists that this eagerness should be taken as evidence of innocence. "Here's the story, just so you understand," he instructed the press: "There's been no collusion whatsoever."

Trump's attorneys are of a different mind. They've been negotiating the terms of the conversation with Mueller's team for some time, arguing — publicly, at least — that the special counsel has yet to present adequate evidence to justify a presidential interview. In private, I suspect their thinking is closer to that of ever-candid former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.