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KGxvi5/01/2018 4:46:15 pm PDT

re: #233 freetoken

Is not the dividing line whether the President can be indicted, rather than be served a subpoena?

The latter, as in the case with Stormy, is to require testimony, but that is not an indictment.

My guess is that if Team Trump refuses an interview, then Mueller can/should subpoena Trump. I suspect that if Trump is subpoenaed, his legal team would fight it because he’s the president yada yada yada, this is (not really) a question for during the investigation. Based on Watergate and Clinton era precedent, the Court is going to tell Trump he has to appear pursuant to the subpoena.

The question of whether the president can be indicted is a post investigation question. I really don’t know the answer to that question. I think he could be, but it makes sense (from a political and legal basis) to say that impeachment should come first. It also raises the question as to whether there is some sort of tolling that would apply to the statute of limitations while one is president (pre-Clinton, litigation against the president would be tolled during his term).

I’m going to have to dig back into the Federalist Papers on impeachment, if only because I consider that sort of thing “fun.”