Yeahhhhh...
I believe the pile of horse crap....
He's scared ****less.... It's beyond any doubt in my mind that he has been threatened by PUTIN AND TRUMP THUG OPERATIVES....BIG-TIME...
(I'VE had a different experience by people in the same powerful position trump used to occupy...it is beyond scarey, it is incapacitating at times...I get his new
Stance totally... )
My very best ( and the same was done to me but I lived) guess?? He's been slowly but surely poisoned with just enough ARSENIC that it really screwed him up....but fell short of actually killing him...I know the feeling in spades)
Hence,
He's sitting out the live trial appearance at the behest of Putin and TRUMP...