A forthcoming book from one of Mueller's former prosecutors shows a man who was constantly worried about provoking Trump during the investigation into his alleged links to Russia. The book alleges Ivanka Trump was not even questioned by investigators
In Weissmann’s telling, the play-it-safe approach was even more deferential than we knew. In his book and in conversation with the, the former FBI counsel described constant concerns among Mueller and his team about provoking Trump. Fear of triggering him to shut down their probe regularly seemed to influence their decision-making, with entire investigatory threads going unexamined out of worry about how the president would react.
and risk enraging Trump, provoking him to shut down the Special Counsel’s Office once and for all,” according to Weissmann.over the probe, and Mueller’s status appeared to be hanging in the balance at several points. The idea that crossing one of Trump’s red lines—interviewing Ivanka; looking into his finances—could spell doom for the special counsel, whatever the immediate political costs, is not unreasonable. But in trying to preempt Trump tantrums, they made their probe ineffective anyway.
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