Schiff: Trump will need to comply with a subpoena

to subpoena and it's the law. These pathological liars who now are in our current government and is part of the effed up party called Republicans are not above the law.

could not be held accountable for all these violations, crimes committed while running for the POTUS and then being mistakenly placed in that position.

He'll argue that the fake US government establishment (and especially Hillary/Obama) put him in power so they could humiliate him and his PATRIOTIC followers.

(Now, where are my quaaludes...)

Two words, Rudy: Bill Clinton.

and lost

He should know this one

Dems: Of course he doesn't have to comply with a subpoena. He shouldn't! It's the worst idea ever and would hurt the Democrats so much, if he were to go testify and just clear up this mess once and for all with his candid testimony. We'd hate it! Obama would hate it! Obama would never comply with a subpoena.

Then wait for it in 3...2...1...

I think you're onto something actually.

If someone put "out there" that Obama doesn't like X or Y then Trump would do X or Y. Or if Obama would never have done it that way... Trump would.

could take attention away from Avenatti.

His job was just to get out on television and fight Daniels in the court of public opinion. Meanwhile he is digging the legal hole Trump finds himself in deeper and deeper.

And they aren't going to get it.

Suppose Trump doesn't accept the subpoena.

Suppose the courts rule against him.

What are you going to do???? Who will arrest him? Who will bring him to the supreme court? or any court?

It won't happen.

Nobody will protest, we're all too lazy.

Republicans won't drop him, they will cling to him like rats on a lifeboat even when he's the one sinking.

Our Constitution was written to prevent any one person from obtaining too much power.

In this case, the checks and balances provisions will require Trump to submit to the subpoena power of a court.

Remember. Mueller may propose to issue a subpoena. But Mueller has to get a court, a representative of the judicial branch of government to sign off on it.

Thus, the judicial branch (a judge) checks and balances the executive branch (Trump) by issuing a subpoena that the executive branch (Trump) has to obey.

So if a judge is persuaded by the documents and arguments that the Mueller investigation presents in support of a subpoena, then Trump will have to obey the subpoena.

Has Giuliani forgotten the very bases of our system.

Each branch of government checks and balances the other branches.

On the other hand, while Congress can oversee the work of the prosecutors in some respects, it is not entitled to oversee the documents and evidence they have in a case under investigation such as the Mueller investigation's sundry documents. Many of them are probably not relevant to anything but are rather leads that the investigation investigates and then ignores or puts in the dead file.

he has to testify.. .he will take the 5th. Then what? By this time it is 2019 and he is running for reelection?

The President of the United States.

Is he to be treated like a normal citizen, or is he insulated from justice for crimes he committed before and after his presidency?

If any court deems the latter, we may need to revolt.

If, however, a court mandates his testimony, and he refuses, then we have a crisis on our hands that the constitution doesn't address: can the man who has the nuclear codes be led away in handcuffs, and if Congress and 60 million Americans block the path, then what?