Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

Trump's Advisers Should Tell Him to Talk to Mueller

The view that he should steer clear of the special counsel is based on three faulty premises.

May 2, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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President Donald Trump should sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller and answer Mueller’s questions to the best of his ability.

That’s not the advice Trump is getting from all quarters. Some Republicans are saying in public that the president should not cooperate with Mueller’s investigation, and doubtless he has political aides and lawyers speaking similarly. (Reporters following this story have speculated that Trump’s legal advisers leaked a list of questions Mueller may want to ask him as a way of discouraging his participation.)