Mueller has some 50 questions for Trump

WASHINGTON: Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing Russian interference in the 2016 US election, plans to ask President Donald Trump more than four dozen questions focussed on determining if he tried to obstruct justice and if there was collusion by his campaign.

According to The New York Times, the questions are broadly along four lines — those related to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, his interactions with former FBI director James Comey, about attorney general Jeff Sessions, and Trump campaign’s coordination with Russia.

In a tweet, Trump hit out at the “leaked” questions, falsely claiming that there were “no questions on collusion”, when in fact the fourth category was about cooperation between the campaign and Russia.

But the main focus of Mueller’s investigation seems to be on possible obstruction of justice.

The questions indicate that investigators plan to ask Trump, for instance, what efforts were made to reach out to Flynn with offers of immunity around the time he was reported to be considering cooperating with Mueller’s probe. Flynn has since pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI and is cooperating with the probe.HTC