There's another possibility not considered here: By sending the 12 hackers to Pittsburgh, you ensure classified info used in indictment will NOT be necessary/accessible to people about to get indicted for collusion counterpart to it.https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1017958524066914305 …
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While there are other avenues--the best one is trump thinks he's pretty / very safe and does it on his own. A subpoena would be challenged and lead to pouring acid on the partisan rift. Giving into demands (prearranged question list, no face-to-face) would risk neutering it.
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If Manafort has flipped there is a good chance that, yeah, he doesn't need it (Cohen maybe too?)--but I think that Mueller's procedure here is based on the idea that Trump will start issuing pardons if he feels attacked--and try to get people to clam up (yes, I know--they can't
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take the 5th if that happens--but I think that people with loyalist inclinations would decide that they'd rather ride out a contempt charge than flip when they would be pardoned).
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And, of course, a cornered trump has a lot of other ways to make trouble (fire entire DoJ, re-staff with russians!)
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