So Rudy Giuliani really did leak Robert Mueller’s Donald Trump interview questions

| 8:17 pm EDT May 1, 2018
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When Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long and damning list of questions for Donald Trump leaked yesterday afternoon, Palmer Report performed a little process of elimination and figured out that the questions probably had to have been leaked by Rudy Giuliani. Now, based on feedback from Mueller’s former assistant, it’s become clear that Rudy really did leak the questions. So why did he do it?

As we explained last night, these interview questions were not the kind of thing that Mueller and his team would have leaked to the media. Yet when the New York Times published the questions, it stated that they were “provided to The Times by a person outside Mr. Trump’s legal team.” No one else would have had access to the questions, which leaves only Rudy Giuliani, who is technically not a member of Trump’s legal team despite informally joining his defense last week.

Now Robert Mueller’s former assistant Michael Zeldin is explaining on CNN that these questions are full of grammar problems and unprofessional phrasing, and that Mueller and his team would not have written the questions in this manner. His belief is that someone on Trump’s side must have written down the questions during a meeting with Mueller, and that’s what got leaked. Guess who spearheaded the meeting with Mueller’s team about a potential interview? Rudy Giuliani.

This of course leaves the question of why Rudy Giuliani would leak such damning questions to the public, as they only serve to make Donald Trump look guilty. That brings us back to the original question of why Rudy informally joined Trump’s legal team to begin with, and why his first move was to try to convince Trump to give Mueller an interview. Considering that such an interview would destroy Trump and speed up the demise of his presidency, we’re back to our original hypothesis: Rudy is trying to hurry up and get Trump ousted before the investigation can circle back to Rudy’s role in the scandal.