Mueller’s List of Questions

Out of a total of  53 questions, only 10 were about Mueller’s investigative assignment, Russian interference in the election and any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.. 

First, are 43 questions that are about matters after the election and thus, outside the scope of Mueller’s assignment.

1. What did you know about phone calls that Mr. Flynn made with the Russian
   ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, in late December 2016?
2. What was your reaction to news reports on Jan. 12, 2017, and Feb. 8-9, 2017? (Media reports of Mike Flynn’s phone conversations with the Russian Ambassador.)
3. What did you know about Sally Yates’ meetings about Mr. Flynn? (Acting Attorney General Yates warned the White House that Flynn was lying.)
4. How was the decision made to fire Mr. Flynn on February 13, 2017?
5. What was your opinion of Mr. Comey during the transition?
6. What did you think about Mr. Comey’s intelligence briefing on January 6, 2017 about Russian election interference?
7. What was your reaction to Mr. Comey’s briefing that day about other intelligence mattes?
8. What was the purpose of your January 27, 2017 dinner with Mr. Comey, and what was said?
9. What was the purpose of your February 14, 2017 meeting with Mr. Comey?
10. what was said at your February 14, 2017 meeting with Mr. Comey?
11. What did you know about the FBI’s investigation into Mr. Flynn and Russia in the days leading up to Mr. Comey’s testimony on March 20, 2017?
12. What did you do in reaction to Comey’s March 20 testimony?
13. Describe your contacts with intelligence officials.
14. What did you think and do in reaction to the news that special counsel was speaking to Mr. Rogers, Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Coats?
15. What was the purpose of your calls to Mr. Comey on March 30 and April 11, 2017?
16. What was the purpose of your April 11, 2017 statement to Maria Bartiromo?
17. What did you think about Mr. Comey’s May 3, 2017 testimony?
18. What did you do about Mr. Comey’s May 3, 2017 testimony?
19. When was the decision made to fire Mr. Comey?
20. Why was the decision made to fire Mr. Comey?
21. Who played a role in the decision to fire Mr. Comey?
22. What did you mean when you told Russian diplomats on may 10m 2017 that firing Mr. Comey had taken pressure off?
23. What did you mean in your interview with Lester Holt about Mr. Comey and Russia?
24. What was the purpose of your May 12, 2017 tweet? (Tweet: “James Comey better hope there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”)
25. What did you think about Mr. Comey’s June 8, 2017 testimony regarding Mr. Flynn?
26. What did you do about Mr. Comey’s June 8, 2017 testimony regarding Mr. Flynn?
27. What was the purpose of the September and October 2017 statements, including tweets regarding an investigation of Mr. Comey?
28. What is the reason for your continued criticism of Mr. Comey and his former deputy, Andrew G. McCabe?
29. What did you think about the recusal of Mr. Sessions?
30. What did you do about the recusal of Mr. Sessions?
31. What efforts did you make to try to get Mr. Sessions to change his mind about recusal?
32. Did you discuss whether Mr. Sessions would protect you, and reference past attorneys general?
33. What did you think in reaction to the news of the appointment of the special counsel?
34. What did you do in reaction to the news of the appointment of the special counsel?
35. Why did you hold Mr. Sessions’s resignation until May 31, 2017?
36. With whom did you discuss Mr. Sessions’s resignation?
37. What discussions did you have with Reince Priebus in July 2017 about obtaining the Sessions resignation?
38. What discussions did you have regarding terminating the special counsel?
39. What did you do when it was reported in January 2018 that you considered terminating the special counsel?
40. What was the purpose of your July 2017 criticism of Mr. Sessions?
41. What did you know during the transition about an attempt to establish backchannel
    communication to Russia, and Jared Kushner’s efforts?
42. What do you know about a 2017 meeting in Seychelles involving Erik
    Prince?
43. What do you know about a Ukrainian peace proposal provided to Mr. Cohen
    in 2017?

One question about Trump’s 2013 Trip to Russia

1. During a 2013 trip to Russia, what communication and relationships did you have with the Agalarovs and Russian government officials?

Only Nine questions about Mueller’s actual investigative assignment: Russian interference during the election campaign and any coordination between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

Four of those questions are mens rea, intended to probe for a guilty mind, not about anything Candidate Trump actually DID.

1. What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?
2. What did you know about communication between Roger Stone, his associates, Julian Assange or WikiLeaks?
3. During the campaign, what did you know about Russian hacking, use of social media or other acts aimed at the campaign
4. When did you become aware of the Trump Tower meeting? (In June 2016 Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. He reported that she didn’t have any dirt and actually wanted to discuss repealing a US law that certain Russians don’t like. He ended the meeting after only a few minutes.)

Finally, five of the 53 questions concern Trump’s actions during the campaign

1. What involvement did you have in the communication strategy, [about the Trump Tower meeting #4 above] including the release of Donald Trump Jr.’s emails?
2. What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding any meeting with Mr. Putin? Did you discuss it with others?
3. What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding Russian sanctions?
4. What involvement did you have concerning platform changes regarding arming Ukraine?
5. What communication did you have with Michael D. Cohen, Felix Sater and others, including foreign nationals, about Russian real estate developments during the campaign? (Apparently Cohen held preliminary discussions about the idea of a Trump Tower in Russia. But the Russians had no interest and the idea died. No actual plans were ever made.)