Dan Abrams on Mueller Questions: ‘No Question’ Leaks Came From Trump’s Team
Mediaite founder and ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams reacted to President Donald Trump’s tweet on Tuesday calling the leak of special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions “disgraceful” — pointing out the questions surely originated from the president’s own team.
So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see…you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 1, 2018
“There is no question that these leaks did not come from Mueller’s team but did come from Trump’s team,” Abrams said on Good Morning America. “How do we know that? Because in the New York Times article, they make it very clear this came from a list of questions that Mueller’s team read to them. And so Trump’s team created this list that was then leaked by someone outside of Trump’s defense team.”
“But no question it came from Trump’s side,” he said.
Abrams added that the questions cover the issue of the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia. “The president is saying there is no collusion, and yet there is a specific question related to Paul Manafort,” Abrams said, referring to this question:
What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?
“It goes to the heart of the issue,” Abrams said, “that Mueller has been investigating from the beginning.
“You read these questions, and you say to yourself, there is simply no way the president can sit down with Robert Mueller and answer all of these questions,” he concluded. “Because he’s going to inevitably contradict himself at the very least.”
Abrams pointed to Trump’s history of conflicting responses to the question of why he fired former FBI director James Comey.
Watch above, via ABC News.
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