Analysis: Trump’s most frequent contribution to the Mueller probe? ‘I don’t recall.’
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's redacted report on the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 18 at 3:47 PM One sentence in the report written by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators summarizes President Trump’s responses to their inquiries succinctly.
Trump offered 22 distinct answers. In 19 of those answers, he claims not to remember or recall some particular issue. Often, those failures to remember what happened constitute the entirety of his response. In the past, Trump has touted his memory. In June, speaking at a news conference in Singapore, he assured reporters that he didn’t need notes about his conversation with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because he has “one of the great memories of all time.” Unfortunately, that memory appears not to extend back to 2015, as indicated in Trump’s responses.That’s most of what he didn’t remember, but not everything.
What did he remember? Among other things, he did remember the genesis of his comments on June 7, 2016, that he would soon be giving a speech targeting Clinton, a comment that came shortly after his son had set up a meeting with someone who Trump Jr. thought would offer new dirt on Clinton. He did remember some of the genesis of the Trump Tower Moscow deal. And he did remember that he did not know that Manafort offered to give campaign briefings to a Russian oligarch named Oleg Deripaska.
Had Mueller’s team been able to engage in an extended interview of Trump, it might have been better able to determine what the president had actually forgotten. As it stands, though, Trump’s various failures of recollection are the best Mueller’s team got.
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