Like winning the powerball lottery ten weeks in a row.
Posted on 04/10/2018 5:34:18 AM PDT by servo1969
The shocking raid on the office, home, and Manhattan hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, directed by a rogue independent prosecutor is the latest outrage in an out-of-control investigation aimed at reversing the results of the 2016 election.
The raid Monday that was directed by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III was a “disgrace” and a “pure and simple witch hunt,” President Trump told reporters at the White House.
“It’s an attack on our country in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.”
Trump’s comments fueled speculation that he will try to fire Mueller, something the president had been avoiding talking about publicly. Some lawmakers say terminating Mueller could lead to a constitutional crisis.
“We’ll see what happens. … Many people have said ‘you should fire him,’ ” Trump said when asked if he would give Mueller the boot. “Again, they found nothing and in finding nothing, that’s a big statement.”
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has threatened violent unrest if Trump fires Mueller. On Dec. 17 the nearly impeached Obama cabinet official tweeted:
“ABSOLUTE RED LINE: the firing of Bob Mueller or crippling the special counsel’s office. If removed or meaningfully tampered with, there must be mass, popular, peaceful support of both. The American people must be seen and heard – they will ultimately be determinative.”
When radicals like Holder say they want peaceful protests, they are lying. A nonviolent leftist demonstration is almost a contradiction in terms. Holder doesn’t care if people get killed as long as his preferred political objective is achieved. He’s absolutely fine with riots and arson, as long as they are carried out for the right reasons.
Investigators from the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York executed a search warrant, seizing records on the $130,000 nondisclosure payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the last election. The x-rated performer claims to have had a sexual affair with Trump years ago. Officials also took a computer, financial records, and attorney-client communications. Cohen is also being probed for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations, the Washington Post reported Monday.
This is part of the Barack Obama-led anti-democratic insurgency that continues trying to oust the duly elected 45th president of the United States from the White House. Democrats, and more than a few Republicans on Capitol Hill, refuse to accept that the irretrievably corrupt Democrat Hillary Clinton was flattened by Republican Trump in a fair fight.
Commissioned to investigate the Left’s ridiculous Trump-Russian electoral collusion conspiracy theory, Mueller, with his scorched-earth, shock-and-awe tactics, remains the Left’s best hope to remove Trump from power. Now with this major escalation by Mueller, the Left smells blood in the water and Trump-haters are becoming increasingly crazed and detached from reality.
For example, MSNBC’s often bizarre Joy Reid devoted a segment of her show to exploring what could happen if the president refused to be questioned by Mueller.
"What if he refuses to open the White House door?" Reid wondered aloud. "What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don't have to follow the law? 'I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is fired.'"
Back in the real world that exists outside of MSNBC, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Fox News Channel that the heavy-handed raid made it a "dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations." Documents were seized in the raid that took place even though Cohen “cooperated completely” with Mueller’s office, he said.
"If this were Hillary Clinton [having her lawyer's office raided], the ACLU would be on every TV station in America jumping up and down," the liberal legal thinker said. "The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling."
Mueller is reportedly also investigating a $150,000 donation that Victor Pinchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch, made to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in September 2015 after Trump gave a 20-minute speech. That donation was the largest the foundation received that year, apart from Trump himself. Pinchuk has reportedly donated $13 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Cohen reportedly solicited the donation in exchange for the speech. The address was made over video link to the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kiev, which promotes closer ties between Ukraine and the West and was sponsored by Pinchuk’s philanthropy. Former President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair have attended the conference in the past.
Mueller is reportedly interested in the Trump Organization's failed 2015 push to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow, not long after the Kiev speech.
Mueller has questioned at least three wealthy Russian oligarchs about whether they directly or indirectly provided funding to the Trump campaign. Mueller’s investigators have also been inquiring about money coming in from the United Arab Emirates.
Mueller was supposed to be examining Russian election tampering but this latest raid “once again shows that the special crisis is Trump,” writes Daniel Greenfield, “[a]nd removing him from office through any means is the priority.” What Mueller is doing “is just an extension of the eavesdropping conducted by Obama.”
“Mueller needs to be removed,” Greenfield concludes. “This investigation needs to be shut down and replaced with a credible investigation into what the Russians actually did and didn't do, rather than a pretext for bringing down political opponents.”
The Monday raid is one in a long train of prosecutorial abuses.
In December Mueller’s thuggish investigators misappropriated thousands of possibly privileged Trump transition emails. Weeks before that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller be fired, saying the special counsel has “indisputable” conflicts of interest.
“We are at risk of a coup d’état in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected president of the United States,” Gaetz said, echoing earlier remarks by writer Michael Walsh who asserts the Left is engaged in a “rolling coup attempt” against President Trump.
Unless somebody delivers a coup de grâce to this disgraceful coup attempt, Mueller’s machinations against Trump could drag on for a long time.
Perhaps not directed by Mueller. But certainly done after consultation and then his concurrence.
This is all a result of Sessions recusal.
Sessions? Who is Sessions/s? Definitely in with the deep state, or blackmailed by deep state! Unbelievable! Trump was deceived about Sessions.... hopefully, we will see the invisible AG removed.
National Review is the den of the Never Trumpers..
IMO this raid had two objectives - isolate Trump legally, as fewer prominent attorneys will be willing to work with Trump after this raid, and to goad Trump to fire Mueller and spark impeachment.
I smell Preet B. Remember how he sat directly behind Comey at his last hearing right before being fired.
Like winning the powerball lottery ten weeks in a row.
“I don’t like blacklives matter, but if you’re correct that they can do this to a president, then what would they do to a black man?”
You mean like Obama?
Pretty much what was said on Hannity - He was talking with AD.
Indirectly it was, he manipulated the operation. It was carried out by the hit men of the deep state swamp of the Trump haters in the FBI bureaucracy and the lawyers in Southern District of the US Attorneys office also a hotbed of Trump haters. Mueller is indeed a rouge hired hit man out to take down Trump at any cost by any means possible.
Trump can't afford to fire Mueller but he sure needs to find a way to force out Jeff Sessions and also Rod Rosenstein and put someone in there that will do what Sessions has been fighting tooth and nail to not do, to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the most corrupt deep state swamp cabal led by the likes of Obama and his paid hit man Robert Mueller and et.al. before they manage to take him down.
Maybe Sessions could end up taking a long unexpected but well deserved permanent nap the way Justice Scalia did. Either way Sessions is the devil's hatchet man here.
“Comey is one nasty man.”
Comey is a lawyer. FBI leaders, most in DOJ are lawyers and probably very many in ABC departments are, too. Most politicians and most all judges are lawyers.
Trump is not a lawyer. Trump is reducing regulations and alphabet departments, and replacing activist judges. So, Trump is a jobs killer for lawyers.
Lawyers are America’s biggest problem.
How many of those people are lawyers?
“Don’t fire him. Demote him”......
Moving a “bad apple” from one place in the barrel will not stop the rotting of other apples. Mueller needs total/complete removal along with other odumbo appointed liberals yet residing in the “swamp”.
Is it too much of a stretch to declare Mueller, his team and his Congressional protectors to be unlawful enemy combatants and treat them as such (no Geneva Convention protections)?
Meanwhile, Linda Graham still has confidence in Mueller.
That makes sense.
The raid was NOT directed by Mueller. He received some info and sent it on to the Southern District of NY because it was not related to his investigation.
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Maybe not directed, but it is because of Mueller and little more than a technicality. He’s looking at things he shouldn’t be looking at, and should have wrapped up months ago.
Trump needs to fire at least three people, Sessions, Rosenstein and Mueller.
People who claim that Mueller shouldn’t be fired still think that Trump is playing 3-d chess.
Trump can’t afford to fire Mueller...
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At this point he can. All he has to do is state his case which he’s practically done already.
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Indirectly it was, he manipulated the operation.
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The raid was the result of a Mueller referral.
If we were to put prosecutors with an unlimited budget on a witch hunt of every politician, there would be a raid every five minutes.
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