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Donald Trump Surprised Robert Mueller With An Announcement No One Saw Coming

Special counsel Robert Mueller is in a standoff with President Trump's lawyers over an interview.

Some experts believe Mueller is trying to lure the President into a perjury trap.

But Donald Trump's lawyers shocked everyone when they made an announcement about Mueller

before a meeting about spygate.

Trump turned the political world upside down when he went on the offensive after revelations

that the FBI dispatched a spy to snoop around his campaign.

This development cast the Russia investigation in a completely new light.

Now Trump and his supporters are convinced the FBI was carrying out a political vendetta

on behalf of the Obama administration during the 2016 election.

After the White House announced there would be a meeting between Congressional leaders

and FBI and Department of Justice officials to discuss spygate, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani

revealed the meeting could lead to Trump sitting for an interview with Mueller.

Politico reports:

Two highly classified briefings Thursday about an FBI informant who contacted the Trump campaign

could help grease the wheels for a highly anticipated interview between President Donald

Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told POLITICO.

"We want to see how the briefing went to today and how much we learned from it,"

Giuliani said in a Thursday phone call.

"If we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably."

After the meeting ended, it did not appear that anything would derail those plans.

Politico also reports:

Attendees were briefed at both meetings by FBI Director Chris Wray, Director of National

Intelligence Dan Coats and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the Mueller

probe, as well as various FBI and DOJ staffers.

At both meetings, Kelly and Flood also gave opening remarks "to relay the President's

desire for as much openness as possible under the law," the White House said in a statement.

"They also conveyed the President's understanding of the need to protect human intelligence

services and the importance of communication between the branches of government."

Wednesday night, Giuliani gave Trump a rundown on what to expect at the gathering as part

of a 30-minute session meant to "get him up to date on what's going on" in the

Russia investigation.

The two met in New York at the Palace Hotel on the sidelines of a GOP campaign event.

"His mood was excellent.

He feels we're on offense now," Giuliani said."

Trump knows he didn't obstruct justice or collude with the Russians.

He believes that sitting for a Mueller interview will end the witch hunt against him.

Some of his supporters contend that Mueller is actively leading a coup and that the interview

is designed to catch Trump in a mistake so Mueller can recommend Congress impeach him

on perjury charges.

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Robert Mueller Just Gave A Big Clue About His Plans For Trump - Duration: 11:40.

Robert Mueller Just Gave A Big Clue About His Plans For Trump

The status of Robert Mueller's witch hunt into President Trump has consumed Washington.

Now the end may be in sight.

Mueller just filed one piece of paper that gives a clue about his future plans for Trump.

Congress has been hot after documents surrounding the Michael Flynn case.

Senator Chuck Grassley has requested the transcript of the conversation between Flynn and the

Russian Ambassador, as well as the FBI's 302 forms from the agents who interviewed

Flynn.

Mueller induced Flynn to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about this call, but former Director

Comey testified that the agents who conducted the interview believed Flynn was truthful.

The DOJ withheld these documents because of the ongoing Mueller investigation.

But Mueller has requested a shorter than usual delay in sentencing for Flynn, which will

end on June 29th.

This leads some observers to believe Mueller is pushing to wrap up his probe by the summer.

Byron York of The Washington Examiner wrote:

NOW, WITH FLYNN AWAITING SENTENCING, GRASSLEY WANTS THE INFORMATION HE ASKED FOR MORE THAN

A YEAR AGO.

PLUS, HE WANTS THE FBI AGENTS' CONTEMPORANEOUS REPORT ON THE INTERVIEW, KNOWN AS A 302, AND

ANY OTHER NOTES OR DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE INTERVIEW (THE INTERVIEW WAS NOT RECORDED.)

IT SEEMS CERTAIN THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH MUELLER'S OFFICE, WILL

REFUSE, CITING AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION.

THAT WILL BE TRUE UNTIL FLYNN IS SENTENCED, OR UNTIL HIS CASE CONCLUDES IN SOME OTHER

WAY.

THERE IS NO WAY TO PREDICT WHEN THAT WILL HAPPEN.

BUT TEA-LEAF-READERS WATCHING THE FLYNN CASE HAVE NOTICED ONE SMALL DEVELOPMENT THAT MIGHT

BE A HINT THINGS ARE WRAPPING UP.

ON JAN. 31, 2018, FLYNN AND MUELLER JOINTLY ASKED THE COURT TO PUT OFF SENTENCING.

"DUE TO THE STATUS OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S INVESTIGATION, THE PARTIES DO NOT BELIEVE

THAT THIS MATTER IS READY FOR A SENTENCING HEARING AT THIS TIME," THEY WROTE.

THEY ASKED FOR AND RECEIVED A 90-DAY EXTENSION, UNTIL MAY 1.

THEN, ON MAY 1, THE PARTIES AGAIN DECLARED THEMSELVES UNREADY FOR SENTENCING.

BUT THIS TIME THEY ASKED FOR A 60-DAY DELAY, UNTIL NO LATER THAN JUNE 29.

IT ALSO WAS GRANTED.

DOES THE REQUEST FOR A 60-DAY EXTENSION, RATHER THAN ANOTHER 90-DAY EXTENSION, MEAN THE FLYNN

CASE IS NEARING CONCLUSION?

THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW ARE REFUSING TO TALK.

BUT IT COULD BE A CLUE.

This has major implications for the President.

When Flynn pleaded guilty, there was no mention of collusion with Russia in the agreement.

The same held true for George Papadopoulos, the Trump aide who pleaded guilty to one count

of lying to the FBI about when he was approached by a supposed Russian agent about the Russians

having Hillary Clinton's emails.

Mueller indicating he is willing to sentence both men means their cooperation is at an

end.

It's also likely that neither produced any evidence of collusion with Russia.

While the media is holding out hope that Mueller has a secret smoking gun that proves collusion

tucked away, the evidence indicates Mueller will begin to finish his investigation and

he has come up empty handed.

We will keep you up to date on any new developments

in this case.