F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen

New York Times. ^ | April 9,2018 | MATT APUZZO

[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.

[Fantasywriter]

Those are good points. My issue is that Q seems more malignant than like somebody just having a lark. When Cohen’s offices, etc., were raided, that was a big clue that the investigations are getting totally out of control. So what does Q come out with? Here it is:

Apr 10 2018 00:48:24 (EST) Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 466abe 979213
>>979093
TRUST SESSIONS.
TRUST WRAY.
TRUST KANSAS.
TRUST HOROWITZ.
TRUST HUBER.
Q

Q is preaching to trust the very people who are in the process of destroying Trump’s presidency. That’s not a lark.

[Enchante]

Excellent point. I had not seen this kind of Q-drop before, since I do not attempt to read all of them. This smells of dangerous misdirection and propaganda. I had mainly seen all the pro-Trump pro-MAGA stuff from Q, and so hoped that he was a somewhat sincere if misguided supporter of POTUS Trump and MAGA.

[Fantasywriter]

There is definitely something shifty about Q. At first, when Sessions was crucuzk to enabling Rosenstein and Mueller, Q repeatedly posted, TRUST SESSIONS.

Then a very interesting thing happened. Wray got in front of a congressional hearing and refused to answer several questions that would have incriminated the FBI. The one I recall most clearly was whether the FBI had paid Steele for the anti-Trump dirty dossier. Wray dug in and flatly refused to say one way or the other.

Shortly afterwards (less than 2 weeks, iirc) Q started up with its, ‘trust Wray, trust the plan,’ drumbeat. The same admonition has been periodically repeated ever since.

I do believe Q is affiliated either with the Deep State or with some other anti-Trumper. It simply cannot be a coincidence that Q cheerleads the very people most critical to enabling the Deep State coup.

[Enchante]

AH, thanks. I simply had not followed enough of the Q history to judge that properly. Sessions, Rosenstein, and Mueller certainly cannot be trusted. I do not yet feel certain about who among them is definite “black hat” vs. just blindly following routines and institutions (Sessions the latter, possibly), but I most certainly don’t want to “trust” any of them for an instant.

Q does sound like misdirection and propaganda on that sort of thing, for sure!

[Sidebar Moderator]

Do not spam the threads. It’s a violation of forum rules.