
Tag Archives: Testimony
Following the News

The Trump Testimony

There is something inherently humorous and infantile about how Trump’s lawyers are treating the prospect of Trump talking to Mueller. On one level, I kind of understand. No lawyer wants their client talking to law enforcement. On the other hand, the President gets a lot of legal leeway in what he’s allowed to get prosecuted for, and from a purely public point of view, you have to wonder what his legal council is trying to keep Trump from saying. Trump is even bringing on a new lawyer to help (after he condemned the New York Times for reporting that and claiming he wasn’t). And their tactics to limit Mueller’s access to Trump have been weird…This week, they’re presenting “documents” to Mueller’s team, essentially a narrative that they pinky promise is the total and complete truth and is totally, completely as useful as Trump’s own testimony.
White Lies

Hope Hicks, the now ex-director of strategic communications for the White House, said that it was part of her job to tell “white lies” for the President. Given her lack of elaboration on that fact, people are left with a lot of questions about such a response. What does she consider a “white lie”? Who exactly was she lying to? If she saw it as part of her job, then how often was she lying? On what topics did she lie whitely over? If she admitted to lying, was she lying about the lying? She claims that she hasn’t lied over matters relating to the Russian Investigation, but is that a White Lie too? So many questions…