Last week Donald Trump’s team of crack legal hacks spent a lot of time peddling the notion that Trump was downright anxious to sit down with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but that particular talking point, based on comments by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, may no longer be operable.
On Sunday, when Sekulow sat down with George Stephanopoulos to explain that his previous denials about Trump’s involvement in crafting the lie-filled statement about the now infamous “get dirt” meeting at the Trump Tower between Don, Jr. and Russian government-sent intermediaries wasn’t really his fault because his client lied to him, he also dropped this mostly overlooked comment:
“If you get a subpoena, you file what’s called a motion to quash. That will be argued at the District Court, then it would go to the Court of Appeals, then it would go to the Supreme Court of the United States. From the Supreme Court of the United States, it goes back down to the lower courts again.”
So sure, Trump is anxious to have a chance to talk to Mueller. As long as Bob doesn’t ask him about Russia. Or collusion. Or the color of grass.