MSNBC chryon crawl--filings suggest that Mueller

[WhiteTara]

has subpoenaed the president.

Stay tuned for real news.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Why the chyron crawl and not a full throated story to haunt the gop

on All Hallows Eve....

[WhiteTara]

10. teasing the news hours?

the ancestors are stirring.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. And,Winters Coming....

[lamsmy]

28. Because there is almost no evidence behind the story

See emptywheel on twitter for a pretty thorough debunking of this story. SOMEBODY is fighting a supeona, but it is highly unlikely it is Trump.

[PJMcK]

29. Who knows?

Politico.com has an interesting analysis:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/31/has-robert-mueller-subpoenaed-trump-222060

Sooner or later, we'll see.

[Jersey Devil]

2. This could make quite a nice October Surprise

Just in time for the weekend, figure the story will break by tomorrow (if confirmed). It will surely boost Trump's approval numbers.

[AwakeAtLast]

22. YES!!!

[NightWatcher]

3. Breaking: trump denies receiving subpoena and you know what that means

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/414163-trump-says-he-has-not-received-subpoena-from-mueller

said Wednesday he has not received a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"No," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn when asked if he had received a subpoena from Mueller. The president was departing the White House en route to a campaign rally in Florida.

The specter of a presidential subpoena was revived earlier Wednesday after Politico published a piece from former federal prosecutor and former White House general counsel Nelson Cunningham, who suggested that Mueller has in recent weeks been locked in a battle with the White House over an effort to subpoena the president and get him to appear before a grand jury.

[malaise]

6. Who would believe this pathological

LIAR?

[Richard D]

14. The pathologically stupid (nt)

[malaise]

15. Someone can just make up shit and lie over and over

And you are that stupid that you buy it.
I guess my signature line is accurate.

[Ccarmona]

19. Technically DT May Be Right

The apparent court filings, while sealed, are only open for conjecture. The legal minds I’ve read seem to think that his lawyers are fighting a subpoena, so until there’s a final ruling, he probably hasn’t been actually served.

[Cha]

25. he did.

[Tactical Peek]

4. Happy Halloween!

Trick or treat, mofo!

[ZZenith]

23. So good!

Bosch would be totally weirded out by our present predicament.

[Tactical Peek]

24. Not to mention weirded out by our president predicament.

[Cha]

27. Brilliant Tactical Peek! Mahalo!

[C_U_L8R]

5. Could be a pathetic Trump ploy

to make his base feel sorry for him. That’s a GOTV strategy only a malignant narcissist would cook up. One thing that’s pretty sure is... Mueller doesn’t leak.

[Roland99]

7. Full article ......

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/31/has-robert-mueller-subpoenaed-trump-222060

But now, thanks to Politico’s reporting (backed up by the simple gumshoe move of sitting in the clerk’s office waiting to see who walks in and requests what file), we might know what Mueller has been up to: Since mid-August, he may have been locked in proceedings with Trump and his lawyers over a grand jury subpoena—in secret litigation that could tell us by December whether the president will testify before Mueller’s grand jury.

The evidence lies in obscure docket entries at the clerk’s office for the D.C. Circuit. Thanks to Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Darren Samuelsohn, we know that on August 16 (the day after Giuliani said he was almost finished with his memorandum, remember), a sealed grand jury case was initiated in the D.C. federal district court before Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell. We know that on September 19, Howell issued a ruling and five days later one of the parties appealed to the D.C. Circuit. And, thanks to Politico’s reporting, we know that the special counsel’s office is involved (because the reporter overheard a conversation in the clerk’s office). We can further deduce that the special counsel prevailed in the district court and that the presumptive grand jury witness has frantically appealed that order and sought special treatment from the judges of the D.C. Circuit—often referred to as the “second-most important court in the land.”

Nothing about the docket sheets, however, discloses the identity of the witness. Politico asked many of the known attorneys for Mueller witnesses—including Jay Sekulow, another Trump lawyer—and each one denied knowledge of the identity of the witness. (What, of course, would we expect a lawyer to say when asked about a proceeding the court has ordered sealed?)

But for those of us who have been appellate lawyers, the brief docket entries tell a story. Here’s what we can glean:

[WhiteTara]

9. Thanks for sussing out the whole article

December 14th. Could be an early Christmas present for the world that lights the candle of peace.

[George II]

16. Could be a better Christmas present for Americans than the so-called "Christmas present"....

....that trump announced last year, the non-tax cut tax cut for working Americans.

Daddy trump's got a lump of coal with his name on it!

[lindysalsagal]

20. "It all fits."

(Shudder). This article appears to be legitimate, without scurrilous sensationalism. It also fits with frump's behavior.

[triron]

8. kick for visibility

[pnwmom]

12. Maybe it was Pence who was subpoenaed or Don Junior. n/t

[George II]

17. Maybe Pence, but hasn't Don Jr. already testified once or twice already?

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I think Jr. has been "interviewed"

but I don't think he has testified in front of a Grand Jury. Pence earlier claimed he wasn't even asked to be interviewed or something along that line that I saw posted on DU recently.

Of course the other one hanging out there who has been oft-mentioned and who has whined about probably being targeted for indictment, is Roger Stone (and his buddy Credico already did his time in front of the Grand Jury).

[pnwmom]

21. Before a grand jury? I didn't know that. n/t

[WhiteTara]

13. this may be a red herring.

Natasha Bertrand was not impressed with this info.

[rusty fender]

26. Norman Goldman talked to another lawyer

on his show about this. They both surmised that if Trumpass is the one who got subpoenaed, then he isn’t Mueller’s target; they also surmised that if this is correct, then Mueller has concluded that a sitting president cannot be indicted.

How disappointed will I be if Mueller doesn’t indict Trumpass