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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 02, 2018, 01:17:47 pm

Title: Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team
Post by: mystery-ak on May 02, 2018, 01:17:47 pm
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team

Carol D. Leonnig and Robert Costa, The Washington Post Published 7:20 pm, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 WASHINGTON - In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Donald Trump's lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

But Special Counsel Robert Mueller responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter.

Mueller's warning - the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump's legal team - spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president's lead lawyer.

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