James Comey weighs in on questions he would ask Robert Mueller

James Comey weighs in on questions he would ask Robert Mueller – as he says Trump would have been indicted already if he weren’t president

  • The former FBI Director delivered his own bombshell testimony in 2017
  • He advised notoriously long-winded lawmakers to ask short questions
  • Urged them to focus on Mueller’s own conclusions from his report

Former FBI Director James Comey said on the eve of Robert Mueller’s testimony that if Donald Trump weren’t president, he would have been indicted for alleged crimes uncovered in the Russia probe.

‘If this were a case about somebody other than the president, they’d already have been indicted on at least several of these obstruction incidents, maybe all of them, I don’t know,’ Comey told NBC’s ‘Deadline White House’ just before Mueller was to deliver testimony under the glare of the national spotlight.

He said Mueller, if pressed, ‘would reach a decision that there is sufficient basis to charge the president.’

That topic is one of many Comey hopes lawmakers ask Mueller, who preceded him as FBI Director, about. 

Comey has come up with his own list of questions that lawmakers should use to grill special counsel Robert Mueller during his bombshell testimony Wednesday. 

Come delivered his own blockbuster testimony in 2017 after Trump fired him, sharing the contents of his own contemporaneous memos from the campaign and Trump adminsitration. 

Trump’s firing of Comey ultimately became one area of potential obstruction of justice that Mueller investigated in his report. Last week, Comey came up with his own list of questions that might coax his former colleague into revealing more.

Former FBI Director James Comey wants notoriously verbose lawmakers to focus on questioning, in particular on areas of obstruction and Russian meddling in the elections, during Robert Mueller’s testimony 

Comey wants notoriously verbose lawmakers to focus on questioning, in particular on areas of obstruction and Russian meddling in the elections.   

‘Did you reach a judgment as to whether the president had committed obstruction of justice crimes?’ Comey wants a lawmaker to ask Mueller. The report does not include such a judgement, but Mueller could have made one.

‘Did you find substantial evidence that the president had committed obstruction of justice crimes?’ he wants Mueller to be asked – a question that might elicit whether the potential crime met the threshold of evidence.

Mueller cited internal guidelines that a sitting president cannot be charged.  

Former FBI Director James Comey delivered his own blockbuster testimony in the Senate in 2017

Former FBI Director James Comey delivered his own blockbuster testimony in the Senate in 2017

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies in the House Wednesday

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies in the House Wednesday

Mueller is experienced about testifying before Congress

Mueller is experienced about testifying before Congress

‘For example, did you find that the president directed the White House counsel to call the acting attorney general and tell him the special counsel must be removed?’ Comey would ask. The report establishes that Trump called White House counsel Don McGahn with that request.  

On Russia, Comey wants someone to ask the question: ‘Did you find that there were a series of contacts between the Trump campaign and individuals with ties to the Russian government?’

The report establishes there were dozens. Asking the question may get Mueller to say so, or even elaborate on those contacts. 

On Russian email hacking – which his FBI helped investigated – Comey wants Mueller to be asked: ‘Did you find that a Trump foreign policy adviser learned that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails?’

He also advises straight up questions about whether his campaign team met with Russian representatives at Trump Tower during the campaign after being told it was part of Russian support for Trump. They did.   

‘Did the Trump campaign report any of its Russian contacts to the FBI?’ Trump wants Mueller to be asked.  They didn’t. 

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