{"id":458231,"date":"2018-01-25T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/25\/trump-looking-forward-to-interview-by-special-counsel\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:20:15","slug":"trump-looking-forward-to-interview-by-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/25\/trump-looking-forward-to-interview-by-special-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;looking forward&#8217; to interview by special counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-top bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1 bsac-hide-on-phone bsac-hide-on-tablet-portrait bsac-hide-on-tablet-landscape bsac-hide-on-desktop\">\n<div id=\"bsac-277964-900062249\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image  bsac-hide-on-desktop bsac-hide-on-tablet-portrait bsac-hide-on-tablet-landscape bsac-hide-on-phone\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"277964\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-banner-web-renault.jpg\" alt=\"Renault\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">President Donald Trump has said he is \u201clooking forward\u201d to being interviewed in an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.<\/p>\n<p>He said he expected to be questioned by justice department special counsel Robert Mueller within two to three weeks, with approval from his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to do that as soon as possible,\u201d said Mr Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The president had previously said he thought it \u201cunlikely\u201d he would be interviewed by Mr Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>He has called the Russia investigation a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and a \u201choax\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Mr Trump maintained he was \u201cabsolutely\u201d prepared to be questioned under oath by the top investigator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been no collusion whatsoever, there\u2019s no obstruction whatsoever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The US intelligence community has already concluded that Moscow tried to sway the presidential election in favour of Mr Trump, though Russia denies that.<\/p>\n<p>As to when it might happen, Mr Trump said: \u201cYesterday they were talking about two to three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he thought Mr Mueller would be fair, the president replied: \u201cWe are going to find out\u2026 I hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268363-296729090\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268363\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Telesol-new-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Homepage Header Ad\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1136575713042949\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>\n\t\t\t(function () {<\/p>\n<p>    function appendFbScript() {\n        var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk',\n            fjs = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];<\/p>\n<p>        if (document.getElementById(id)) return;\n        js = document.createElement('script');\n        js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=298184353996497&version=v2.0\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);<\/p>\n<p>        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                appId: '298184353996497',\n                xfbml: true,\n                version: 'v2.0'\n            });\n            FB.Event.subscribe('comment.create', function (comment_data) {\n                console.log(comment_data);\n                update_comments_count();\n            });\n            FB.Event.subscribe('comment.remove', function (comment_data) {\n                update_comments_count();\n            });<\/p>\n<p>            function update_comments_count(comment_data, comment_action) {\n                jQuery.ajax({\n                        type: 'GET',\n                        dataType: 'json',\n                        url: 'http:\/\/starrfmonline.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php',\n                        data: {\n                            action: 'clear_better_facebook_comments',\n                            post_id: '282383'\n                        },\n                        success: function (data) {\n                            \/\/ todo sync comments count here! data have the counts\n                        },\n                        error: function (i, b) {\n                            \/\/ todo\n                        }\n                    }\n                )\n            };\n        };<\/p>\n<p>        appendFbScript();\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    appendFbScript();<\/p>\n<p>})();\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has said he is \u201clooking forward\u201d to being interviewed in an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the US election. He said he expected to be questioned by justice department special counsel Robert Mueller within two to three weeks, with approval from his lawyers. \u201cI would love to do that as soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":458232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}