Trump keeps playing nice with Mueller, for now
By Darren Samuelsohn
POLITICO
December 2, 2017
President Donald Trump’s lawyers have been counseling him since this past summer to play nice with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Cooperation with the Russia probe, the president’s attorneys have argued, is the best path to the exoneration Trump has craved all year — a way not just to get things over with quickly, but also to signal to prosecutors that the administration has good intentions and nothing to hide.
See also: Mr. President, Tell Your Lawyers: ‘You’re Fired!’ by Larry Klayman