Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro warned President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE not to sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE, saying the president's lawyers should "take him down to the basement of the White House and physically chain him up" to prevent him from talking with the special counsel.

“I mean, if the lawyers have to take him down to the basement of the White House and physically chain him up to prevent him from talking to Mueller, I would recommend that be on the table so long as they don’t violate his consent in any way because that would be illegal,” the "Daily Wire" founder and editor-in-chief joked with host Shannon Bream on "Fox News at Night."

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“It would be such a mistake to put somebody like President Trump, who likes to bloviate, who likes to exaggerate, who likes to say everything is the biggest, the strongest, the best, the hugest, the most incredible," Shapiro, 34, continued late Wednesday.

"Put that in front of a trained lawyer like Robert Mueller, a trained investigator like Robert Mueller, who’s going to sit there and try to pick apart statements.”

Shapiro's recommendation comes on the heels of news reports that some members of the president's legal team were advising Trump against doing an interview with the special counsel.

Trump has indicated he would talk to Mueller if asked, but added that decision would ultimately be up to his legal counsel.

Shapiro noted that former President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBarr says Ginsburg 'leaves a towering legacy' Trump reacts to Ginsburg's death: 'An amazing woman who led an amazing life' Jimmy Carter remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg as 'a beacon of justice' MORE was a “very good lawyer and a very smart guy when it came to manipulating language and he got caught in a perjury trap" in 1998 while under questioning.

Shapiro added that it wouldn't be hard to envision Trump getting caught in the same trap.