re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Apparently Trump is planning on ‘ordering’ McGahn to defy the House subpoena and not testify. There’s supposedly a DOJ OLC opinion being drafted to defend this move.

There can’t be any claim of attorney/client privilege, because the WH Counsel is not the President’s attorney.

There can’t really be any claim of executive privilege, since McGahn already testified to the SCO.

It’s all about stopping McGahn from making him look bad on national television, and there’s no claim of privilege for that.

I believe the argument is that the SCO is under the purview of the DOJ which is part of the executive branch so the president can still assert executive privilege since McGahn has never testified outside the executive branch. Don’t think it is a good argument, but what they are going with. It will tie things up in the courts and that’s really what they want.