Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump's written testimonyto special attorney Robert Mueller depicted Trump repeatedly responded to inquiries with brief denials or lack of recollection on wide-ranging topics, saying more than 30 times he did not recollect, recollect or recollect.
Trump never sat for an in-person interview with the Mueller team, and Mueller opted to avoid a drawn-out legal fight with the President by not subpoenaing him for evidence outside of the written answers attributed to Trump.
In its written questions, the Mueller team focused on five topics for Trump: an infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 between Donald Trump Jr ., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and a Russian attorney; the dissemination of hacked emails from the Democratic Party; a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow; Manafort and Russia-related campaign issues; and a small section about the World Chess Championship.
