As everyone knows, Donald Trump recently submitted written responses to Questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  Trump and his lawyers thought they had outsmarted Mueller by agreeing only to submit written responses and, moreover, they apparently coordinated their responses with Paul Manafort, who supposedly was “cooperating” with Mueller, but in fact was cooperating with Trump. Team Trump’s “3-dimensional chess” move may have been thwarted by Mueller, who realized Manafort was merely pretending to cooperate, and Mueller can prove what Manafort was lying about, and now has Trump locked in, in writing, on answers based on Manafort’s lies.  Fun times, indeed!  And now, it turns out that Mueller’s team had inserted 5 additional questions into those provided to Trump, never expecting Trump to answer them, but simply to give Trump more to stew about during his lonely White House evenings and World Summits. Here are Mueller’s Top 5 “Bonus Questions” for Trump:

1. Why do you think Roger Stone keeps insisting he’s not going to testify against you?  Do you think he protests too much? You don’t think that, along with Michael Cohen and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and your buddy David Pecker from the American Media Inc (National Enquirer, etc.), he’s already given us everything we need, do you?  Isn’t it interesting that Cohen, Weisselberg and Pecker have already plea deals in place and/or have been granted immunity?

 

2. Why do you think your Campaign Chair Paul Manafort insisted that Mike Pence be your running mate? What is it about Pence that Manafort found so essential as your Vice Presidential candidate and now your Vice President??

 

3. Why do you think Putin turned down your offer of a $50 million penthouse apartment in Trump Tower Moscow? Does he find your work to be tacky or of poor quality, or do you think he has some other reason?  What does he really want/get from you?

 

4. If you slap tariffs on foreign goods coming into the U.S., who pays them – the foreign companies, the foreign government, or U.S. consumers?

 

5. Have you ever found that people you’ve never shown loyalty to are just itching to be disloyal to you? I’ve always found that to be the case, haven’t you?  Do you think there’s merit to the old saying, “Hell hath no fury like a felon scorned!”?