Donald Trump said that he’d be willing to talk under oath to Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating whether anyone close to the president colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Trump told reporters in a surprise appearance at a briefing Wednesday at the White House. “I would do it” under oath even though his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton didn’t when her use of private emails was under investigation in 2016, he said.
Trump’s lawyers have been talking with Mueller and his aides about an interview with the president. The lawyers met last month with the special prosecutor’s team and have been speaking by phone as part of a continuing exchange over logistics that could take several weeks.
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