Posted on 04/14/2018 10:51:38 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
President Trump now has real legal peril. The potential jeopardy stems from the investigation that came to light this week when the FBI conducted raids on the office and residences of his lawyer and self-professed fixer, Michael Cohen.
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The matter now under investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), however, is a very live criminal investigation. Anyone potentially connected to it should be worried.
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...we are still not fully informed. Still, as an alum who spent nearly 20 years as an SDNY prosecutor, Im always inclined to assume my old office is up to serious business.
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I believe that the government is investigating whether there was, in connection with Trumps White House bid, a conspiracy to commit fraud and extortion for the purpose of silencing potentially compromising sources specifically, people in a position to portray Donald Trump as a womanizer. Clearly, the prosecutors regard Trump and Cohen as potential co-conspirators.
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search warrants sought, as the New York Times describes it, all documents, including emails between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump, related to Mr. Cohens efforts to suppress negative publicity ahead of the 2016 election. We know that these efforts specifically involve but are not necessarily limited to the burying of stories about Trumps flings with pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Various reports also indicate that a former Trump-building doorman named Dino Sajudin was paid $30,000 to stay silent
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It seems evident that prosecutors are investigating on the theory that Clifford, McDougal, and perhaps others were defrauded or extorted into silence. The fact that they accepted money does not foreclose the possibility that their agreement to remain silent was procured, in part, by trickery or threats.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
“I like Andy, but this is weak sauce. Theres nothing illegal here.”
I agree.
This seems to me to be just another element of Mueller’s Judas-shopping expedition.
This is just another example of the “Lawfare” that the Dems have used against Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rep. Tom DeLay and Gov. Mike Walker. This also was done against Sen. Ted Stevens. The Dems politicize the judicial system to go after their opponents. All 4 of the cases that I mentioned were shown to be frivolous, but that didn’t matter. The Dems harassed the Republicans, causing great distraction and big lawyer costs. This is the type of thing that goes on in banana republics, but it is what the Dems have been doing for the past 15-20 years. We are getting a good look at the evil that the Dems have embraced. If and when they regain power, they will literally do almost anything to not lose it.
I’m thinking Trump’s lawyers read this whole thing wrong by being compliant with this investigation early on. They should have known from the get-go that this was always about removing him from office, period.
These politicians are treading on dangerous ground if they think Trump’s sex life is a prosecutable issue.
They could be next.
REASONING: Trump knows plenty about all of them-—all about THEIR sordid sex lives.
Consider that wealthy Trump was the go-to guy for campaign donations.
Money-hungry candidates spilled plenty of secrets about themselves and their opponents to get bigger donations.
After all, Trump was chick-bait......ran Miss USA contests. The felt at-home talking about their intimacies.......
Maybe some of them even asked Trump for beauty queen phone numbers?
That would be schadenfreude......some of the beauty queens talking to reporters about politicians’ sex escapades.
ROTFLOL.
“That would be schadenfreude......some of the beauty queens talking to reporters about politicians sex escapades.”
Except reporters would not be interested if the pols were libs.
National Review is utter garbage and should go out of business.
The Left are so far down Delusion St. that they have no ability to discern the raw, molten, white-hot anger that is building in the hearts of Americans who themselves are stunned at the sheer effrontry of this Criminal Party. The Left thing it is a game that they can cheat to any degree that they want. The Left can’t imagine that there is a limit. They believe they only have to lie more and cheat better.
Trump should tweet that Cohen ran his “bimbo eruption” office. And that he consulted Hillary and she suggested he destroy the women’s reputation. But he decided to give them money instead because he’s not greedy like the Clintons.
NEVER underestimate the government’s power.
OJ Mueller is going to find the real DC criminals...
They'll keep believing it right up to the moment the first couple dozen go up on the DC cherry trees...
Indeed.
And never forget that WE are the government, in the very end of all things.
The Swamp has forgotten that...
LOCK & LOAD.
NEVER SURRENDER, NEVER RETREAT.
Why? This is GREAT.
Trump has shown us what the DC criminals will do to retain power.
They mean to use it on us, after they remove Trump.
This business with Trump makes our choice easy. Rule 223, or Rule 308...
I like it!
Remember that corrupt old slut Mary Jo White, from the impeachment wars?
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