Trump's legal team prepares for showdown with Mueller

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By Evan Perez, Gloria Borger and Pamela Brown, CNN

Updated 7:26 AM ET, Wed May 2, 2018

Washington (CNN) - President Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing for a legal showdown with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources familiar with their thinking.

Trump's legal team is bracing for the dramatic possibility that Mueller would subpoena the President, setting up a collision that could force a lengthy court fight and test the legal limits of the President's power all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Mueller has raised the possibility of a presidential subpoena in at least one meeting, according to two sources. But some of the President's legal advisers are gambling that Mueller would not go that far. The Washington Post first reported on the subpoena threat.

The already slim chances of Trump sitting for a voluntary interview with Mueller's investigators are growing dimmer, sources close to the President say.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/trump-lawyers-showdown-special-counsel/index.html

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1. donnie's best strategy by far is to try to run out the clock.

he was never going to interview voluntarily. he just put that out there to waste time and drag things out.

when mueller finally busts out the subpoena, they'll challenge it. given the nixon precedent, it's really unlikely that even this court will quash the subpoena. they know this, but the real goal is simply to waste more time with the challenge and the appeals.


look for delaying tactics in everything they do. he's only president for another two and a half years or so anyway, they want to keep as much of it as possible.

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2. He thinks he's above the law. Thank the GOP for helping him destroy the country.