For the record, remember that these lawyers did not talk to the press by accident. If they want you to think that Trump is absolutely incapable of telling the truth, it is because you thinking that will help Trump and hurt you.
Here’s how this is going to shake out.
MUELLER: Thank you for meeting with me, Mr. President. Could you state your full name for the record?
TRUMP: Donald John Trump.
WASHINGTON POST FACTCHECK: Huh? Oh, um, true.
FOX/RUSSIAN BOTS/FRIENDS OF RUSSIAN BOTS: Trump Defies Odds, Tells Beautiful Truths! Liberals Suicidal As Trump Brings the Truth Train.
Doesn’t matter what he admits to, perjures himself over, or takes the fifth on. That’ll be the story. Even his own lawyers underestimated our great truthful president. You know, some people are saying he’s more truthful than Washington.
Now, does this keep him in office/out of jail in the fullness of time? Eh, dunno. But that’s a whole different thing, not one he has much control over. The meeting drama is about conditioning your expectations for the meeting. When and if it happens, and Mueller leaves without Trump in handcuffs, that’ll be the beginning of the pivot. Because remember, until the indictments are made and unsealed, all we’ll ever know about what Trump says is what his lawyers will tell us. “Frankly, I have never witnessed such bold and non-incriminating truth-telling in my life. At one point I thought the special counsel would literally die from it.”
