Trump To Vance: I Would Prefer A Civil, Not Criminal Subpoena

[Zorro]

Attorneys for President Trump hit back in a Monday court filing at suggestions that the President is under investigation for fraud, saying that the allegations only meet the bar for civil wrongdoing.

“Many of the allegations in the District Attorney’s extraneous sources that form the basis of his invitation to imagine an investigation broad enough to justify this subpoena, relate to civil, not criminal, conduct,” attorneys for the President wrote in a footnote as part of a broader attempt to prevent a criminal subpoena issued for the President’s financial records from going forward.

Trump is trying to block a subpoena obtained by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance for his financial records, held by accounting firm Mazars USA LLP.

The Supreme Court last month struck down a previous round of arguments from Trump that his status as President rendered the subpoena unenforceable, but remanded the case back to the district court while giving Trump leave to raise further objections.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-to-vance-i-would-prefer-a-civil-not-criminal-subpoena

[Freethinker65]

1. If many allegations are civil, that means some are criminal.

They just want to delay as long as possible, and if civil only, settle out of court (using money stolen from taxpayers no doubt).

[pwb]

2. I prefer?

Do we all have the choice to chose punishment? No. Some law and order man ha?

[agingdem]

7. You prefer??

I prefer you and your whole stinking family vacate "the people's house"...and I prefer you locked up in a high security prison for the criminally insane...so you and Bill Barr can take your preferences and shove it up your fat asses...

[malaise]

3. I would prefer dungeon with no lights

You have no say MoFo -fuck you and Yoo too.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. FFS, Spanky! It's not a menu.

And you can't get it well done with ketchup.

[mr_lebowski]

5. Pretty sure tax evasion is a crime, assholes (nt)

[calguy]

6. He acts like he has a choice?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. You can't always get what you want, as Mick Jagger once said.

[Brainfodder]

9. I would prefer he and his whole corrupt crue be the first ones sent to Uranus.

.....FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[A Brand New World]

10. As a supposed greatest president ever once said,

“It is what it is.” <<criminal>>

[struggle4progress]

11. I fear I might soon begin to prefer the Red Queen's view: "Sentence first -- verdict afterwards."

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Isn't Recurring Civil Fraud...

...criminal.
The pattern of behavior could be criminal, even if most of the incidents are civil.
It sure looks like running a racket, to me.