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Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones
NBCNews.com ^ | 05/03/2018 | Tom Winter and Julia Ainsley

Posted on 05/03/2018 10:02:25 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Federal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for President Donald Trump who is under investigation for a payment he made to an adult film star who alleged she had an affair with Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.

It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but NBC News has learned it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohen's offices, hotel room, and home in early April, according to one person with direct knowledge.

At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, the person said.

Previously, federal prosecutors in New York have said in court filings that they have conducted covert searches on multiple e-mail accounts maintained by Cohen.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coup; deepstate; jamescomey; lisabarsoomian; lisapage; michaelcohen; muelleroutofcontrol; obamasfault; peterstrzok; phonetapped; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; sdny; spying; tyranny; uniparty; witchhunt
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To: GIdget2004

I don’t understand why there has been no push back from anyone other than a few commentators. This situation is truly frightening. The President’s legal team should consider filing an emergency suit with the appropriate federal court or SCOTUS to protect attorney client privilege and the presidency.


21 posted on 05/03/2018 10:11:46 AM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: GIdget2004

Not a surprise. Mueller is throwing crap all over trying to find something. He’s an embarrassment to this country.


22 posted on 05/03/2018 10:11:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: rbg81
Trump has the patience of a saint, because before now, I would have declassified and dumped everything from soup to nuts on everyone in DC.

All. Of. Them.

23 posted on 05/03/2018 10:12:00 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: Pikachu_Dad

What is going to take before Trump & Co. fight back against these seditious bastards?


24 posted on 05/03/2018 10:12:40 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: GIdget2004

They were nuts if they did not assume it was tapped. The question now is whether Cohen gave the Feds a different story than the one Giuliani gave yesterday.


25 posted on 05/03/2018 10:12:44 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: dp0622

So this is the union/all powerful central federal government Lincoln spent hundreds of thousands of lives to preserve.


26 posted on 05/03/2018 10:13:00 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Signalman

Well hello. Wasn’t all the opposition to Obama to undermine him and get rid of him or keep him from being elected? Rush is stating the obvious, but in such a way to garner sympathy for DJTm


27 posted on 05/03/2018 10:13:03 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Col Frank Slade

Obviously the stooge Sessions doesn’t have any problem with the wiretap.


28 posted on 05/03/2018 10:13:05 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: dp0622

“At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted”

And how exactly does NBC know this?
Outrages. Phone conversation between a POTUS and his lawyer is tapped and no one is arrested? WTH?


29 posted on 05/03/2018 10:13:42 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Brilliant

“They were nuts if they did not assume it was tapped.”

Right. I read that Guiliani was upset with Trump for calling Cohen after they raided Cohen’s office, mostly because he assumed that someone would be listening.


30 posted on 05/03/2018 10:14:21 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: niteowl77

Trump has the patience of a saint, because before now, I would have declassified and dumped everything from soup to nuts on everyone in DC.
All. Of. Them.

Good idea. Including Obama’s “sealed” records and EVERYTHING on EVERY Republican. Hell, we never even got the names of the scumbag politicians who were using OUR money to settle their sexual harassment lawsuits, did we?


31 posted on 05/03/2018 10:14:35 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: rovenstinez
Would have been Great if they spent half as much effort, or one tenth this amount of time to look into Hillary Clintons Charity Foundation. This is not LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

Hillary never threatened the deep state. Trump is taking it to them, they're panicked. He is smart enough to know this was coming and was prepared.

32 posted on 05/03/2018 10:15:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Pravious

It didn’t start well with the titular AG chickening out before he even started.


33 posted on 05/03/2018 10:16:29 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: niteowl77

“Trump has the patience of a saint, because before now, I would have declassified and dumped everything from soup to nuts on everyone in DC.
All. Of. Them. “

Deep State is taking every desperate action to find something to move against POTUS, fairly obvious to even casual observers.

It hardly seems likely there was some great need to target and go after Michael Cohen let alone raid his office and residences.

Yet, here we are and the DNC Media is celebrating along with their Leftist cohorts in “the Resistance.”

This is like the worst Stasi movie never made. It’s completely out of hand but I suspect it’s the last ditch efforts before the tables are turned.

It’s obvious the death shot attempt came with the OIG Report Pt. 2 bearing down on them with release mid-May anticipated.

Strap in folks; gonna be a helleva ride when it does.


34 posted on 05/03/2018 10:16:35 AM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: GIdget2004

Did the deep state wake up Sessions & run this by him.


35 posted on 05/03/2018 10:17:14 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: GIdget2004

I think the story went....The President called Cohen and Cohen said he was likely being tapped and not to call there again.


36 posted on 05/03/2018 10:17:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Signalman

They (the permanent Deep State...Totalitarians, call them what they are), will not stop this until they are forcibly defeated. They are boxing in Trump to leave only two options - defeat them through means that will lead to civil conflict, or surrender. They believe they can make him surrender. It will be up to the people to convince them otherwise.


37 posted on 05/03/2018 10:17:38 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: GIdget2004

This is appalling. I wish they went after real corruption with as much vigor as they go after Trump and the people around him.

Hannity’s constant refrain of what great people there are at the FBI and our other much vaunted law enforcement agencies is growing very thin.


38 posted on 05/03/2018 10:17:38 AM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: GIdget2004

They would NEVER EVER have done this to ANYONE associated with Barack Obama.


39 posted on 05/03/2018 10:17:46 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: GIdget2004

Even in movies they disconnect the phone taps when privileged conversations are overheard. I’m really stunned to see how far they are willing to take this thing. As many said just after the election, BAMN (by any means necessary), thus “the resistance”.


40 posted on 05/03/2018 10:18:15 AM PDT by Religion and Politics (It is time for more than one denomination of "Political Correctness".)
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