Posted on 04/09/2018 1:12:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress. 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. Mr. Ryan said Mr. Cohen has cooperated with authorities and turned over thousands of documents to congressional investigators looking into Russian election meddling. The payments to Ms. Clifford are only one of many topics being investigated, according to a person briefed on the search. The F.B.I. also seized emails, tax documents and business records, the person said.
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Trump...fire away...
Sessions is a laughing stock now. Everybody is laughing at how pathetic he is.
Prayer can’t hurt, I suppose, but for some odd reason there’s this image of Korean shopkeepers in LA . . .
Sessions is a mealy mouthed soft little do nothing of a man....
I kind of feel like if there were anything to this “Stormy” garbage, it would have been brought out during the election.
Bless you for that. Some things are worth it.
They want the excuse to do nothing. They hate being the majority. They are not conservatives.
Sessions should have the decency to resign, based on what has happened, today.
Fresh start, clean slate.
Who was the Judge who signed the warrant and what is his background?
Fox news just broadcast part of Trump’s meeting on Syria. He was livid. I wouldn’t be surprised if he fires Mueller and Rosenstein in the near future in conjunction with a strike on Syria.
He reiterated that had he known Sessions would recuse he would have nominated someone else.
Rosenstein signed off on the FISA warrant and recommended Comey’s firing.
Mueller is continuing his witch-hunt.
Trump used the word disgrace over and over. He was pissed.
maybe Sessions thinks he’ll get a SC nomination out of this....
That's why you're OK with this.
Idea: you could start a new forum and call it "Banana Republic".
You could spend all day posting love notes to your Deep State Masters in DC, in between begging them for higher taxes and less Natural Rights.
So this means Mueller will not get his interview with Trump because it really doesn’t matter anymore.
That’s what I said, when I first heard this breaking, on Hannity’s radio show.....if it’s Stormy related.....why the h@## NOW??? They’ve had over a freaking year.
the pubs?...they sit on their fat white asses and go along with the minority in congress...
the elites want us to be discouraged and we're playing into their hands...
but this crap has got to stop...
Didnt this moron volunteer, out of the blue, that he had paid off the hooker when no one was asking ?
So you’ll keep supporting someone who’ll get pushed around? Just fire Mueller and let the chips fall.
no one saw this coming?...all these smart lawyers didn’t think to remove most of their files weeks ago?...they didn’t think this would happen?..
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