The questioners were thorough and incredibly well prepared, asking the same questions several different ways to elicit revelatory answers. As one witness recalled, “They don’t ask any question they don’t know the answer for.” The inquiries often lasted for many hours and sometimes for multiple days. The witnesses were afraid both of oversharing, for fear of eventually facing the president’s wrath, and of slipping into a lie, for fear of becoming the next Michael Flynn. Mueller’s deputies led most of the questioning, but Mueller would come in and out of the room, looming silently over the
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