Mueller: OK, he can write some replies

Special counsel Robert Mueller will allow President Trump to submit some written answers about whether his campaign colluded with the Russian government ahead of the 2016 election, according to a report Tuesday.

Two people briefed on the matter told The New York Times that Mueller's office made the concession in a letter to the President's legal team sent on Friday.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's top lawyer in the Russia investigation, declined to confirm or deny the existence of such a letter, but acknowledged that “of course we would prefer written answers.”

“It's harder to flip in sneaky questions that way,” Giuliani told the Daily News.

A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment.

Mueller's investigators and Trump's legal team have engaged in a monthslong backand-forth about whether Trump will sit down for an interview.

The special counsel's letter reportedly doesn't completely preclude a possible interview with Trump. Mueller's investigators still hope to ask him questions about collusion and whether or not he tried to at any point obstruct the investigation into his own campaign, according to the sources.

But sources also said the letter's tone and lack of an explicit demand for written responses on obstruction had some Trump allies giddy because they reasoned the scope of any interview will be far more limited than expected.

Echoing a previous argument, Giuliani said he will allow Trump to submit to an interview only if Mueller (photo) promises not to catch him in a “perjury trap.”

“We want to make sure the questions are appropriate, that they are decent and are not trying to trap him and that they are relevant,” Giuliani said. “The only way we're going to know that is when we see the questions.”