Rudy Giuliani now says President Trump still is undecided as to whether or not he will hand over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller written answers his lawyers have prepared for him.
A meeting with Trump to make a final decision on the first round of questions is expected soon after the president returns Sunday night from his trip to Paris for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Guiliani said.
“We’re close,” Giuliani said. “I think the only thing that throws us off a little, which we explained to [Mueller], is that the president’s going to be away for about three, four days.”
“So, before we make a final decision — which I’m not sure I could tell you what that is, although I think we have an idea right now — but before we can make it, we really want the president to have a day home where he can just think about it, make sure he’s comfortable with it, and then we’ll tell [Mueller] what the decision is,” the president’s lawyer added.
(...)
Giuliani declined to discuss the number of questions Mueller posed, or their specific content. He did confirm that the questions deal with Trump’s time before he was sworn in as president in January 2017. There was also no firm commitment from Trump’s side to answer any or all of the questions — but they did agree to respond shortly after the midterm elections.
“As you might imagine, some questions are, from our view, more relevant than others,” Giuliani said.
(...)
Based on the questions Mueller delivered to the president’s lawyers, Giuliani said he would be surprised if the special counsel wasn’t already writing at least a final report dealing with topics related to the Trump campaign and the Russian hackers.
“The questions they gave us, if they don’t know the answer to 90 percent of them now, I’d be shocked,” Giuliani said. “I guess the only thing I can do is, if they get his answers — if that’s what happens — is they’re going to check it against what they thought his answers were going to be, and I think it’s going to come out almost 100 percent.”
Trump mulling whether to give written answers to Mueller, Giuliani says (Politico)