Posted on 01/10/2018 7:53:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
Que up the “leave Sessions alone” guy...
Unfortunately, it will be a trivial matter for Mueller to obtain a subpoena for Trump to testify, from Mueller's DC-based Grand Jury who have been described as looking like regular participants in Black Lives Matter rallies. And the President will have to respond to that, or plead the 5th, which infers guilt. That's why there are already reports out that Trump's team is now negotiating the terms, which is exactly what Trump is doing with these statements to the press.
So even the President can't run out the clock on a special prosecutor assigned to investigating the President. If Slick Willie had to testify to Starr, then Trump will likely have to testify to Mueller, if Mueller presses it.
Good. He shouldn’t.
Trump should copy the Hillary defense: "I don't remember. I don't recall. I'm not sure . . . . "
Herr Mueller’s witch hunt is fast losing credibility. I wouldn’t dignify it by granting any interviews.
“Chances are, based on president, Trump will at least have to answer some questions, in some manner.”
You said he’s the target of the investigation. In America you do not have to answer any questions, in any manner. And just for fun, the special counsel literally answers to Trump, not the other way around.
Mueller does not have the legal ability to charge Trump with any crime.
Unfortunately, he likely is, at least least according to the latest reports about where Mueller is taking the investigation.
If you remember, Michael Flynn was fired by Trump, for lying about this discussions with the Russian Ambassador. Unfortunately, it appears Flynn had lied to the FBI at the same exact time, about those discussions, as Flynn has already plead guilty to that (lying to the FBI).
Mueller is looking into 1) whether Flynn's discussions violate the Logan Act and were ordered by Trump (long BS story but Mueller is looking for anything that might stick) or 2) whether Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to investigate Flynn (more BS but the problem is Flynn has now plead guilty).
I'm not saying that I agree in any way with Mueller's attempted cases against the President, I'm just letting you know that Flynn's guilty plea has given Mueller some options to try to entrap the President and possibly force his testimony. Those saying Mueller still isn't dangerous actually know little about what Mueller is actually up to.
Trump was a target of an illicit FISA surveillance campaign last year. He should be throughly unccoperative with any investigation carried out by anyone remotely tied to any of the Federal agencies involved in that surveillance.
Yes, we all know how an interview with Mueller will go. Mueller will ask DJT when he tweeted or spoke to so and so and DJT will say last April and Mueller will go “ah ha - it was May! You are now charged with lying to a federal investigator.”
I wouldn’t be in the same zip code with those people if I were Trump.
“Unfortunately, it will be a trivial matter for Mueller to obtain a subpoena for Trump to testify,”
Tell us more about this ability to use a subpoena to compel a target of an investigation to offer testimony. I hope you at least enjoyed the Cracker Jacks there in the box with your law degree.
Presidential Grand Jury Testimony: President Bill Clinton testified, under oath, before a Federal Grand Jury
https://www.c-span.org/video/?111990-1/presidential-grand-jury-testimony
He should insist upon the same terms Hillary had.
Nobody has ever been prosecuted under the Logan act. And Logan is a dead letter after Obama before his election in 2008 negotiating with Iraq to oppose Bush, and by McCain negotiating all around the world at cross purposes to the USA. Last, every single president elect, BAR NONE has interacted and opened dialogue about the future with numerous nations.
As for firing Comey, Trump has an unquestioned right to direct the FBI, fire it’s director, tell him to end or begin an investigation, etc. It is impossible for his to “obstruct” one of his low level employees like an FBI director.
But in any case, this special counsel cannot file criminal charges against Trump. The most he can do is hope congress will take his report and try to impeach him. But Mueller cannot prosecute him. It can’t be done.
He elected to testify in order to talk his way out of it. He was not compelled. No target of a criminal investigation can be forced.
If he gives in, he is done. The FBI is Expert at leading people into Perjury Traps. If Trump’s Bow-Tie wearing , affected Lawyer doesn’t know that, then Trump is in trouble.
I never claimed that. I simply said as special prosecutor investigating the President, there is precedent to force the President to testify, or plead the 5th. And acting AG Rosenstein has rebuffed any questions as to whether Mueller has the full support of the DOJ. Rosenstein used to work for Mueller, and acts like he still does.
But don't consider me an advocate for Mueller, in the least, I am one of his biggest critics on FR.. If you've seen my posts you would have noticed I have aggressively attacked those here who actually are supporting Mueller by claiming that he is secretly working for Trump. My goal is to bring awareness to the threat, which is real. Just like you have to properly identify the threat as "Islamic Terrorism" before you can actually fight it. You have to be aware of the full context of the "Mueller Threat" before you can defend from it.
“Where is Sessions?”
His wife wanted him to go to the grocery store, but he recused himself.
“He should insist upon the same terms Hillary had.”
Hillary’s ground rules that Trump can -insist- on.
Instead of going to prosecutors and insisting on using grand jury leverage to compel testimony and seize evidence, Comey allowed immunity for several key witnesses, including potential targets.
The immunity agreements came with outrageous side deals, including preventing agents from searching for any documents on a Dell laptop owned by former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills generated after Jan. 31, 2015, when she communicated with the server administrator who destroyed subpoenaed emails.
Comey also agreed to have Mills’ laptop destroyed after the restricted search, denying Congress the chance to look at it and making the FBI an accomplice to the destruction of evidence.
Comey’s immunized witnesses nonetheless suffered chronic lapses in memory, made unsubstantiated claims of attorney-client privilege upon tougher questioning and at least two gave demonstrably false statements. And yet Comey indulged it all.
What’s more, Comey cut a deal to give Clinton a “voluntary” witness interview on a major holiday, and even let her ex-chief of staff sit in on the interview as a lawyer, even though she, too, was under investigation.
Clinton’s interview, the culmination of a yearlong investigation, lasted just 3½ hours. Despite some 40 bouts of amnesia, she wasn’t called back for questioning; and three days later, Comey cleared her of criminal wrongdoing.
Well Sir I was on this site when Clinton’s testimony was going down, and I can tell you he was compelled, by subpoena from Ken Starr. Starr ultimately withdrew the subpoena, as a courtesy, so Clinton could claim he was voluntarily testifying, but Clinton was forced into it. I would like to give you better sources but this is all the search engines are offering on the first few pages, and I am quite confident in the general accuracy regarding the subpoena.
https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/07/29/lewinsky/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr073098.htm
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