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FBI Raids Trump Lawyer’s Office
The FBI has raided the office of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. From the New York Times:
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, who called the search “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.” The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York.
“Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” said Stephen Ryan, his lawyer. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”
Mr. Cohen plays a role in aspects of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He also recently said he paid $130,000 to a pornographic-film actress, Stephanie Clifford, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Ms. Clifford is known as Stormy Daniels.
This investigation has gone from “Trump colluded with Putin to steal American democracy” to “Trump diddled a porn star” in about a year. Hopefully Mueller will wrap up this investigation soon.
What do you think, Ricochetti? Is this big or blah?
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If you want Mueller, Rosenstein, et al gone, vote Republican this November. If we hold the House, Trump can just fire them all.
What evidence do you have that Trump knew the KGB was trying to entrap him when he was there?
I’m not disputing your statement, it just seems that you are relying on “everyone knows it” which doesn’t strike me as something that accurately describes Trump.
The point of such things is intimidation. Ask Paul Manafort. Heck, ask the victims of the John Doe raids in Wisconsin.
@rufusjones, you totally took my comment out of context. I was speaking hypothetically about why Trump wouldn’t just release the FISC documentation.
He has tons of security guys and lawyers advising him and he’s obviously in “Indian country”. People think he’s impulsive on everything. He isn’t. He can’t be.
We are here because of the choices Trump has made. No one forced him to have sex with Stormy. No one forced Cohen to pay her to not disclose the affair, and no one forced them to potentially break laws and commit other ethical violations. The president isn’t above the law or beyond reproach. Had the American people chosen differently I think you would be keen on investigating Clinton’s wrong doings past and ongoing. Would that be because you hadn’t liked the decision the people had made?
Well only for ten years. The individual cuts are due to sunset because of Reconciliation.
He’s not germophobe enough to wear condoms with his sexual partners…
OK, sorry.
Snicker.
Oh you’d love to see the reaction if you could prove Trump got hookers to pee on a pillow Mama Obama and Buraq Hussein had used? That’s your “hope and dream”? So typical from this source. Thanks for meeting the standard we’ve come to expect!
I’ll tell you what my reaction would be:
If only they had peed it before the Zeros slept there!
Wow, best argument I’ve heard for voting Democrat ever. If you want to make the president unaccountable vote Republican. Honestly we will make sure to let him do whatever he wants. That isn’t swampy at all.
With that camapign promise how could the people not support the Republican party? I guess the integrity of Jeff Sessions is all that stands between rule of law and full on Bannon Republicanism. If he holds the line he might end up as the greatest lawyer since St. Thomas Moore.
Ha!
I have heard this this is an attempt to squeeze Cohen. What has happened today is highly irregular and probably illegal. I doubt many people would consider it out of bounds for Trump to pardon Cohen in the same spirit of irregular. Tit for tat.
Apology accepted. Now, go now, and sin no more.
Well there you go…. a non perverted (btw using perverted in a non judgemental way, maybe weird or unusual would be better words to use) explanation for his Moscow actions…. hoping Barack and Michelle would come use the same room again.
Piece of advice: don’t believe everything a porn star with her hand out tells you.
Urine is sterile.
Alan Dershowitz is on Hannity saying exactly the same things I have said in my comments here. This is an attack on the attorney client relationship. A very dangerous development. Cohen was a cooperating witness; a no-knock raid was unnecessary and an intimidation tactic. And if it had been done to Clinton’s private counsel, there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth on CNN. It is unprecedented.
Also the brilliant and always well-prepared Greg Jarret: Mueller has forgotten the canon of ethics. The president’s attorneys should file an immediate motion to quash the search. And under no circumstances, now, should Trump speak with Mueller.
Forget the NY prosecutors’ involvement: they’re turning the fruits of their illegal search over to…the FBI.
The opposite is perhaps true.
If you want Trump gone, hold your nose and vote Democratic this November. If the Dems take the House, they have subpoena power. If they take the House by a lot, Trump will be impeached if Mueller finds the evidence to support that conclusion.
No, Trump is generous with his PBF.
If it had been done to Clinton’s private counsel ,you would have demanded a special prosecutor be appointed to determine why it took so long. Such is life…
“Whatever it takes.”
If the attorney is part of committing a crime, you don’t get privilege.
More useful advice: don’t believe anything Donald Trump says. He is a habitual liar.
Sad state of affairs when a porn star has more character than the POTUS.
This shows once again the mistake in not appointing special counsel to investigate the FBI/DOJ/ Clinton emails etc. While the US Attorney Sessions appointed is a decent guy, and the DOJ Inspector General has shown himself to be a person of integrity, the usual legal process is not suited for dealing with an attempted coup. Mueller and his Democrat Lawyer Attack Team are engaged in scorched earth warfare. Sessions needs to appoint as Special Counsel a snarling partisan dog, give that person a broad grant of authority, let them hire partisan Republican lawyers, and set ’em loose. The point is to instill fear in the Democrats. Right now this is a one-sided battle. The only way to deal with it is go after them just as hard.
Remember it was Ken Starr going after the Clintons that finally got bipartisan agreement to get rid of the Special Prosecutor law. However idiotic Starr’s mission was it at least accomplished that.
I think Mueller’s purpose is two-fold. First, to try to taunt Trump into firing him which he knows will create a political firestorm that he believes will mortally wound Trump. The goal, after all, is not an indictment, it is political destruction. Second, to use whatever non-Russia related stuff triggered this action, in order to get Trump’s lawyer to flip and deliver the dirt on his client and the Russians, since apparently Manafort, Gates, and Flynn haven’t delivered.
Trump and Republicans are both responsible for this witch hunt for approving its creation and tolerating its wild, lawless expansion.
There was never a time when Democrats would not spin news regarding these “investigations”, whether approved or not. There will never be a time the circus can be shut down without the Left going on parade with lies and conspiracies. Today and tomorrow, as a year ago, the Trump administration and Republicans (Trump fans and not) will have to counter slanderous narratives.
Shut it down. Conflict and damage cannot be avoided.