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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what in the GD F-ING HECK is going on here???
THIS IS UNDER SESSIONS DOJ???
One or two battalions of Marines plus the thousands of Trump voters suggested by that sweet lady who called Rush to capture that vampire and "drive a stake through his heart."
And this information reaches the public courtesy of your unfriendly Washington leaker.
It’s ‘ALL’ about them getting back in control and the power and wealth that gives them.
I am guessing Sessions signed off on this?
It is time for a stronger AG. This can’t go on.
You don't think they already are? Look, this is nothing more than a game of chicken. Both sides - Trump and plotters - know everything is on the table. What they are maneuvering for is the initial parlay - who moves first?
Trump knows the only answer is a military intervention. Imminent threat to national security, military arrests & tribunals, etc. The plotters are betting on Trump chickening out and letting the existing legal/political processes play out; that's their advantage.
So, both sides wait and play around, avoiding the true clash of titans and putting off confrontation for another day.
The Deep state is out of control. Every sentient being can see that.
The DOJ, FBI and NSA should have been purged on January 20 2017.
PURGED.
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you’re right, but it might be impossible to ever drain the swampers. swamp is too deep & wide
Mission accomplished!
No successful outsider will ever run for high office again.
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Unless they are far left wing.
Is Trump the most vetted world leader in history?
I think it is likely that Trump and most if not all of his associates have had all cell and electronic communication illegally intercepted and analyzed since before the election.
And all things negative about Trump have somehow been leaked.
And though he wasn’t my first choice because I thought he might have ethical issues, he is probably one of the few people who could withstand such intensive and illegal surveillance for such a prolonged period of time.
Maybe, but they didn't use the IRS, FBI and Justice Department as well as the various intelligence agencies to trash him, or they would have used the fake birth certificate.
Are you seriously equivocating legitimate political opposition with illegitimate government weaponized political opposition?
Leftists SUCK; Obama SUCKS; however, I have yet to see evidence of Conservatives using the IRS, FBI, or DOJ to target them...
After this, Guliani should come out this afternoon and state any conversation between the President and Mueller is off the table, and if it is found that Mueller authorized this, he should be fired tonight.
We apparently already did and it missed.
I think the time has long passed that Mueller should be fired, and I'm sure Trump could weather the storm from that. Enough is enough. Pull the plug once and for all. The damage to the office of president has been severe already.
Do you suppose they will have a FR section ;(
I don’t understand why there has been no push back from anyone other than a few commentators.”
The problem is that unelected career bureaucrats (the deep state) run all three branches of government and the MSM. Elected politicians and their appointees hold the very top positions but they quickly learn nothing happens unless the deep state bureaucracy wants it to.
The deep state can not only slow walk and ignore their boss’s agenda, but with the help of their counterparts in the FBI, CIA, IRS (you name it), they can gain leverage over their supposed bosses.
Those who are above reproach can still be rendered ineffective until they resign out of frustration.
Given the power weilded by the deep state the swamp can’t be drained by purges or Saturday Night Massacres. They only change the people at the top, while the corruption remains.
The only hope I see of draining the swamp is to expose the corruption so the people see it for what it really is. Right now, people just don’t know what a sham the federal government is - they still think it’s basically good with some bad mixed in. Really it’s 99.9% rotten and people need to know.
Only when the people see the bitter truth will change be possible.
Here’s how bad it is: The federal government in DC (and I don’t think I’m over stating the problem) is a “one stop shop” so that all the people you need to bribe are conveniently in one place. It’s that bad.
It’s that disgusting. It’s that shameful.
Trump is approaching this exactly right: use his bully pulpit to expose the corruption - let them bring shame on themselves, explain what’s happening directly to the people in plain terms.
Don’t attempt mass firings, purges or massacres - that behavior is to easy to easy for the MSM propaganda machine to cast as an overreaching, authoritarian POTUS. Then Trump is seen by the public as the threat.
Trump must continue to let himself be seen as under siege, fighting against tremendous odds - that’s not a bad thing.
For one thing it’s true and the people should know what he’s up against
“Trump knows the only answer is a military intervention. Imminent threat to national security, military arrests & tribunals, etc. The plotters are betting on Trump chickening out and letting the existing legal/political processes play out; that’s their advantage.”
Exactly. We are playing for all the marbles here, for the future of the Republic. Trump has to be bold and do what is necessary. But he also has to know that we have his back, and will do what is necessary when called upon.
I would urge Rudy to seek a Writ of Prohibition in the Supreme Court, against any use of the highly questionable fruits of the Mueller investigation in any Federal Court, citing the wholesale irregularities & bullying tactics, as against the very suspect basis claimed to justify what has been done, and focusing also on the gravity of the distraction from the extremely critical nature of what is on the President's plate this year, on both the foreign & domestic front.
(Even if the Court declined to issue the writ, proactively, the effort would still help demonstrate key points that need to be addressed, publicly.)
The balance, at this point is so one-sided in the President's favor, I think he might get the Writ, which would make the continued Mueller antics moot.
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