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In reply to the discussion: Giuliani threatens to go to court if Mueller subpoenas Trump [View all]LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)Hey, Rudy, if anyone gets subpoenaed, it's going to be Trump, not "us." You don't have any choice about whether your client gets a subpoena to appear before the grand jury. And if he does, he's on his own, without anyone holding his hand as he testifies. I wonder how many times he will take the Fifth?
Want to take Mueller to court over a subpoena? Throw him into that briar patch! He's got real attorneys working for him -- you're just a television lawyer. Even a conservative SCOTUS is going to vote against him. Again, a cardinal concept of our country is that no one is above the law. You may believe Nixon's claim that, "If the president does it, it's legal," but I imagine there are nine people (well, maybe eight. Thomas will probably vote to protect the president) who will stand against giving one man unfettered power.
Too bad Nixon hadn't thought about the "president has full control over all investigations" angle. Maybe he had a respect for the rule of law that yours doesn't. And he recognized that the DOJ must operate independent from the Executive to be effective. If you really believed that bullshit, you would have put it in a motion and not a letter to the prosecutor. Putting it in a motion sticks Trump's case in the court system, and I bet both you and your ignorant client want to avoid that at all costs, right?
All Rudy does is go on television and pontificate. Meanwhile, Mueller and his lawyers keep plugging along. I don't expect him to indict Trump -- if he does, it will be under seal to be opened when he's out of office -- but I expect a flurry of indictments of anyone who has ever come into contact with Donnie Two Scoops. If Trumps pardons all of them, even the cowardly Repugs in Congress are going to have to face the fact that he's doing it to obstruct an investigation. Obstruction of justice was a separate count in Nixon's impeachment and also Clinton's.
Suck it, Rudy.