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babylonsister

(171,079 posts) Wed Aug 8, 2018, 03:53 PM Aug 2018

Mueller Likely To Subpoena Trump If He Continues To Dodge Interview

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/08/08/mueller-likely-to-subpoena-trump-if-he-continues-to-dodge-interview.html

Posted on Wed, Aug 8th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Mueller Likely To Subpoena Trump If He Continues To Dodge Interview

Law enforcement sources are saying that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will subpoena Donald Trump if the president continues to dodge an interview with the Special Counsel.

The New York Times reported:

By making another counterproposal after months of promises that they were just weeks away from deciding about an interview, Mr. Trump’s lawyers run the risk that Mr. Mueller could conclude they are negotiating in bad faith to prolong the investigation. In a meeting with Mr. Trump’s lawyers this year, Mr. Mueller threatened to subpoena the president if he did not sit for a voluntary interview.

Law enforcement officials who have worked with Mr. Mueller, a longtime federal prosecutor and the head of the F.B.I. from 2001 to 2013, believe that he will try to use every tool he has to get the president to answer questions and that he will probably subpoena him to testify if he does not agree to be questioned voluntarily.

Mueller is coming for Trump

Trump and his lawyers are betting that Mueller won’t want to have a court fight that he could lose if he tries to subpoena the president, but they are making a big mistake by not calculating the amount of political damage that will be done to Trump and the Republican Party if the president makes Mueller subpoena him. By fighting a subpoena, Trump will distract the entire country and add fuel to the perception that he is guilty.

The easiest way for Donald Trump to make the Mueller investigation go away is for the president to cooperate fully. A subpoena fight with Mueller is likely to take months to resolve and would come as the 2020 presidential campaign was unfolding.

Mueller is coming for Trump either way, but if Trump fights Mueller on the subpoena, he will probably end his presidency and do even more damage to the Republican Party, because innocent people don’t fight subpoenas.

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Mueller Likely To Subpoena Trump If He Continues To Dodge Interview (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2018 OP

What Is He Waiting For? LandOfHopeAndDreams Aug 2018 #1

Gonna be hard to keep saying you want to sit down with Mueller if you're fighting to keep from TeamPooka Aug 2018 #2

What's Mueller got to lose ? C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #3

This line is comedy gold jberryhill Aug 2018 #4

if LEO did search the kitchen, it would make the investigation proceed more efficiently and quicker LanternWaste Aug 2018 #5

It would sure make things easy for them jberryhill Aug 2018 #11

Perfect malaise Aug 2018 #7

trump's ego won't let him take the fifth....he'll talk himself right into an orange jumpsuit spanone Aug 2018 #6

He will outsmart himself malaise Aug 2018 #8

I think it is getting very close to a subpoena. kentuck Aug 2018 #9

Do it malaise Aug 2018 #10

LandOfHopeAndDreams

(872 posts)

1. What Is He Waiting For?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Aug 8, 2018, 03:57 PM

Aug 2018

I somehow have my doubts that this guy is correct. If Mueller does try to subpoena Drumpf, it will go to the courts. Drumpf will fight it for as long as he can.

TeamPooka

(24,242 posts)

2. Gonna be hard to keep saying you want to sit down with Mueller if you're fighting to keep from

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Aug 8, 2018, 03:58 PM

Aug 2018

doing so all the way to the Supreme Court.

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)

3. What's Mueller got to lose ?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Aug 8, 2018, 04:03 PM

Aug 2018

It’s Trump and the Supremes who will look bad, no matter what the outcome.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. This line is comedy gold

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Aug 8, 2018, 04:08 PM

Aug 2018

"The easiest way for Donald Trump to make the Mueller investigation go away is for the president to cooperate fully."

Uh, no.

As an attorney, let me see if I can explain this in relatively simple terms.

Let's say that there just happens to be a dead body in your kitchen. The dead body has a knife in its back, and your fingerprints are on the handle of the bloody knife.

There are some police at your door, who were called by the neighbors when they heard you shouting "I'm going to kill you with this knife!" at someone in your kitchen.

In those circumstances, I would not tell you "The easiest way to make the cops leave you alone is to invite them in and have them search your kitchen."

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

5. if LEO did search the kitchen, it would make the investigation proceed more efficiently and quicker

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 8, 2018, 04:39 PM

Aug 2018

Regardless of what you tell your client, if LEO did in fact search the kitchen, it would (all other things being equal) make the investigation in and of itself proceed more efficiently and quicker, despite the outcome to your client, yes?