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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Republicants do not control the SCOTUS. The ones holding blackmail files do. All one needs to see this is the behavior of the filthy dead soul Roberts.
You are right. Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch are the conservatives on the Court.
Roberts is a toss up.
Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan and Kennedy are Leftist.
They are planning to have Trump out by then.
// We are witnessing being conservative become a criminal act. // >>
// Tell Vladobama I will have more flexibility after I become a criminal. //
What a profound observation.
Spot on.
‘If the Deep State tries to remove President Trump’
Wake up. The coup to remove Trump is ongoing. Sessions is its chief enabler. He, along with Rosenstein and Mueller, are destroying the Trump presidency at this minute. It’s all going according to plan.
And Pence quietly bides his time.
You are the birther obsessed one. You bring it up constantly. I don’t.
The fact that Fogbow is your go-to site for information says more about you than you want it to. I.e.: it says you’re a radical Leftist.
One way you reveal your leftism is by your perennial blindness to the Grand Canyon of double standards we are witnessing. Trump has been treated completely opposite of the way your hero, Obama, was treated. The contrast couldn’t be more dramatic. Yet bc it’s the government doing it, you think it’s all good. You have worshipped government since you started posting on FR. After all, the government tilts decidedly Left, so from your POV, what’s not to like.
“Trump has been treated completely opposite of the way your hero, Obama, was treated.”
What do you mean?? At least no rodeo clown has worn a disrespectful Trump mask! /s
That’s true. But a Leftist comedienne held a bloody, severed Trump head in one hand and a knife in the other.
Mule-er is so far away from the mandate given to him to start this witch hunt that he is now merely a coup perpetrator. The order for changing this sh!tstorm is to fire Sessions, Appoint DiGenova and have Joe fire Rosenfiend and Mueller. Then Joe can appoint Judge Piro as deputy Atty Gen and begin the grand jury work to take down the obamaroid/clinton criminal regime still operating.
The plan is for the Senate to refuse to confirm a new AG.
Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) are behind this, without a doubt.
NG was wrong, as usual.
‘ABC News has learned that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is recused from the Michael Cohen investigation. Two sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News Berman was not involved in the decision to raid Cohen’s office because of the recusal. The recusal was approved by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The raid of Cohen’s handled by others in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and approved by a federal judge.’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3646393/posts
There is ALWAYS an ‘Acting Attorney General’. Firing Sessions would make Rosenstein Acting AG, and on down the pecking order should others quit or be fired.
In your opinion, could Trump survive politically if he fired Rosenstein?
I would advise the President not to chance it, but instead to name his own Special Counsel as presidents from US Grant to Harry Truman did. And I would advise the President to do so with Congressional leaders and invite them to reauthorize themselves to name a Special Counsel and then to agree with him on a candidate.
That sounds like a sound strategy, but one that should have been done many months ago. Trump hasn’t been getting the best advice, apparently.
The plan is for the Senate to refuse to confirm a new AG.
Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) are behind this, without a doubt.
Exactly. And notice none of the “true conservatives” in the Senate like Lee, Cruz and Rand are not promising hell to pay should McConnell/Grassley/Graham try to block a POTUS of their own party who is under treasonous assault.
You are correct.. It sure appears to be that way.. Such a disappointment!
I wish President Trump had fired him the moment he recused himself.. I bet he wishes he had, too.
In spite of all that is against him..TRUMP Will Prevail.. He always has and always will!
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