Trump reportedly wants to ignore the advice of his lawyers and talk to Robert Mueller

Donald Trump.
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President Trump may be walking himself down the plank.

CNN reported Wednesday that the president wants to go against the advice of his own lawyers and submit to an interview as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and obstruction of justice against said investigation. An unnamed source close to the president told CNN that Trump thinks an interview with Mueller won't be all that bad because he genuinely believes in his own innocence, and because he's done plenty of interviews under oath in his life. "[Trump] doesn't realize how high the stakes are," this person told CNN.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.