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What FBI was looking for in raid on Trump lawyer
https://nypost.com ^ | 04/10/2018 | Kate Sheehy

Posted on 04/10/2018 11:54:24 AM PDT by heterosupremacist

The FBI is investigating a $150,000 payment that the publisher of the National Enquirer made to a second woman who claims she had an affair with the president, according to a report Tuesday.

The agency executed a search warrant Monday targeting President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, that included a request for documents related to Cohen’s payment of $130,000 to stripper Stormy Daniels. The porn star has said she had an affair with Trump.

But the feds also want to know about a payment made by American Media Inc., which owns the Enquirer, to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, sources told the New York Times. AMI’s chief executive is a personal friend of Trump’s, the paper said without identifying the person.

McDougal claims that she had a nearly yearlong affair with Trump in 2006.

The FBI also is seeking documents related to Cohen’s ownership of “numerous” New York City taxi medallions, CNN said...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2006; 201804; americanmedia; cohen; michaelcohen; nationalenquirer; taxicaps; taxis; trumprussia; trumpslawyer
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To: heterosupremacist

Trump brought all this sh*t down on himself by appointing an incompetent attorney general. And it will go on as long as that office remains virtually empty.


61 posted on 04/10/2018 1:33:00 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: JGPhila
Let's see what they come up with. Mueller knows by now that the whole Russian Collusion and Obstruction of Justice things are DOA. The problem is that we know what happens when a special prosecutor is appointed. They start out with looking at one thing and end up going after another if they think a crime has been committed.

Now Mueller is looking at possible Campaign finance abuses because the money paid to this stripper may have come from the 2016 campaign. If not they are going after Cohen for banking fraud because he may have lied to the bank about a loan he took out to pay the stripper.

If all of this efforts fails, where else is he going to go I wonder?

62 posted on 04/10/2018 1:38:00 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: GoldenPup

Sessions made his recusal intentions clear at his confirmation hearing. Trump could have pulled the nomination then if he had been paying attention.


63 posted on 04/10/2018 1:38:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Unless the payment was made in Rubles?


64 posted on 04/10/2018 1:43:58 PM PDT by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is growing EXPONENTIALLY..)
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To: mass55th

Have you done thorough testing to make sure?


65 posted on 04/10/2018 2:05:50 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
And what does any of this have to do with Russia? Oh yeah, bupkis.

He's doing standard fed prosecutor stuff: railroad someone for nothing crimes, threaten him with life in prison and offer him a deal if he turns on his boss. Interestingly, his boss has pardon powers. So don't know how fed railroading works out in this case but we'll see I supposed.

66 posted on 04/10/2018 2:20:46 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: cbvanb

“The traditional approach to Law Enforcement went out the window about the time the Clintons showed up.”

Ain’t that the truth.


67 posted on 04/10/2018 2:29:28 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Nope...I’m a woman, and have no need for fake boobs, nor to check them out.


68 posted on 04/10/2018 2:32:21 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Valpal1

It’s as reliable as the Steele dossier


69 posted on 04/10/2018 2:38:27 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mass55th

You just dodged being called as a witness in the Mueller investigation.


70 posted on 04/10/2018 2:53:51 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
"You just dodged being called as a witness in the Mueller investigation."

When it comes to Mueller, you can't count anything out.

71 posted on 04/10/2018 3:02:55 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Robert357
Well some answers. According to MSNBC, “....”Among strategists, concern is at an all-caps level,” said one Republican strategist who is close to Senate leaders.

The reason for the fear, this strategist said, comes from uncertainty about how the president may react, including possibly firing special counsel Robert Mueller, who reportedly made the referral leading to the Cohen raid, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who reportedly signed off on the raids......”

So Mueller and Rosenstein are those responsible for the raid on Trumps personal attorney.

Earlier in the year there was a story that Rosenstein would be fired because of FISA abuse once the Inspector General’s report comes out.

Maybe this is all about a diversion from the DOJ Inspector General’s report that will be announced shortly.

https://truepundit.com/fbi-official-rosenstein-will-fired-memo-released-used-bogus-trump-dossier-fisa-warrant/

If so, deep swamp dirty politics.

72 posted on 04/10/2018 3:43:14 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Leep

73 posted on 04/10/2018 4:50:14 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: DesertRhino
Trump needs to come out hard today and go hard alpha. Issue a full pardon to Cohen and Flynn. Announce that the Mueller investigation concludes on the last day of April and no excuses will be accepted.
Say on that date Mueller must present all his evidence. Announce that if he refuses, that Session’s, Rosenstein, and Mueller will be fired.

This would allow him to deflect BS claims that he is interfering. It gives them a couple of weeks to make their case if they have one. If they have a case of collusion, time to make it.

It’s for all the marbles anyway, go big.

Amen brother! The time for playing nice is over.

74 posted on 04/10/2018 5:00:40 PM PDT by WMarshal (Molon Labe!)
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To: Darksheare

“So let’s raid a guy next t affiliated with the enquirer..”

One step at a time. Mueller isn’t finished destroying the principle of “lawyer-client privilege”. He’ll get around to wrecking the 1st Ammendment soon enough.


75 posted on 04/10/2018 5:29:16 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

Autocowrecked got me.
It was supposed to read “not affiliated”.
But, smartphone knows SO much better than I what I was typing.
Even better is when you repeatedly fix what it keeps screwing up, and it won’t let you.
That one slipped by me.


76 posted on 04/10/2018 5:35:10 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: heterosupremacist

The FBI is in complete violation of Attorney Client privilege.

They are clearly on a witch hunt.


77 posted on 04/10/2018 5:36:07 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Robert357

I don’t get these folks using the term ‘affair’... when a whore is boinked it’s NOT an ‘affair’...


78 posted on 04/10/2018 9:13:41 PM PDT by GOPJ ( “Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance.” - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: heterosupremacist
These comments make you stand for more open government?
79 posted on 04/10/2018 9:18:00 PM PDT by GOPJ ( “Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance.” - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: Darksheare

Keep in mind that the Enqu. Is actually owned by CIA and the devil Brennan is at the heart of the fake dossier hire.


80 posted on 04/10/2018 9:22:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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