Posted on 04/10/2018 6:11:42 PM PDT by Starman417
It was Rod Rosenstein who signed off on Mueller's wish to raid Donald Trump's personal attorney:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein personally gave the green light for the FBI to raid the hotel room and office of President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday, The New York Times first reported.Alan Dershowitz called it "very dangerous":Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. The Cohen raid came, in part, from a referral from Mueller’s team.
The raid was executed by the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The man running that office, interim U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman, is a Trump appointee whom the president personally met with when he was up for the job. Berman also donated $5,400 to Trump’s presidential campaign.
"This is a very dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations," he added.The raid sought to obtain documents related to Stormy Daniels. Cohen has claimed he paid Daniels $130,000 for a non-disclosure agreement out of his own pocket and Trump has claimed to be ignorant of the action. It is thought that Mueller is looking to squeeze (and most likely bankrupt) Cohen into saying something - anything- true or not. Mueller will probably again threaten Cohen's family as he did to Michael Flynn, but it is the violation of attorney-client privilege that is most concerning. Once that formerly immutable principle of the law is rendered meaningless the entire legal system is in jeopardy. The willingness of Rosenstein to mastermind the erosion of the law signals in no uncertain terms that it is his solitary intent to take Donald Trump down.Dershowitz, who has drawn the ire of Democrats for defending Trump, said Mueller's move is also dangerous because it gives the FBI the option of deciding what information seized from Cohen to pursue.
"I tell [clients] on my word of honor that what you tell me is sacrosanct," he said. "And now they say, just based on probable cause ... they can burst into the office, grab all the computers, and then give it to another FBI agent and say, 'You're the firewall. We want you now to read all these confidential communications, tell us which ones we can get and which ones we can't get.'"
"If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer's office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America, jumping up and down," he added.
These desperation tactics indicate that Mueller obviously has little to nothing in his Russian foray and is in need of fabricating trumped up charges with which to coerce witnesses into saying whatever he wants them to say.
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John Roberts already established that he is indeed a Deep State operative (willingly or unwillingly) with his opinion on Obamacare.
Or should I say his two opinions on Obamacare, he wrote the dissent as well as upholding the law.
The raid on Cohen and Mulehead’s witch hunt are a direct
result of Alfred E. Sessions recusal.
All this taxpayer funded get-Trump crap and not a dime towards putting Obama and Hitlery in jail.
Nothing will stop this relentless attack on the Constitution except the air filled with an acrid and sour smell with a hint of mercury fulminate...
Nothing will stop this relentless attack on the Constitution except the air filled with an acrid and sour smell with a hint of mercury fulminate...
Of course he is, by blackmail or ideology: ObamaCare.
The worst part is it’s the law. Not fair. Trump is a celebrity, a famous and until very recently a liberal, who is rich and presumably above the law, like the Clintons!
All of the FBI/DOJ “senior” official are millionaires. That freaks me out. They made millions on a bureaucrats salary living in the third most expensive metro area in the nation.
Thanks Starman417.
Seems the explanation Rush offers is the most likely;
The Deep State, comprised of both parties, do NOT want an outsider like Trump to be messing with the status quo in Washington.
Doesn’t matter really.
They won’t win.
It is so sad to think that the President is responsible for all those who wish to destroy him by hiring or not firing people. It is also a fact that POTUS is getting horrendous advisement. I always thought civilian Trump had a keen BS detector but President Trump is being lead into a Hornets Nest.
Then fire sessions and Mueller
Mueller and Rosenstein and the media are doing a coup against Trump.
Sessions is corrupt or unconscious.
This Rosenstein guy seem like a smarmy little prick.
As worldly and street wise as Trump is I’m sure he’s shocked by how evil, dishonest,scheming and intertwined DC is.
Hey, if the caricatures fit...
“The raid on Cohen and Mulehead’s witch hunt are a direct
result of Alfred E. Sessions recusal.”
When I saw the news clip of his recusing a chill went up my spine and I blurted out “oh shit!!” Game over before it ever started.
I wouldn’t buy a used car from this shyster.
“Nothing will stop this relentless attack on the Constitution except the air filled with an acrid and sour smell with a hint of mercury fulminate...”
I would love that smell...especially in the context of settling old scores!
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