The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trumps 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. Cohens lawyer, who called the search completely inappropriate and unnecessary. The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Muellers investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York.
Today the U.S. Attorneys 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 counsels 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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But if Hillary Bullshit Felon signs on a witness and co-conspirator to her crimes as her personal attorney, then has her sit in on the fake FBI "interview", well .......... that's not a problem at all.
#44: tpaine To: Hank Rearden (#35)
I have no doubt that a lot of this witch hunt is driven by exactly that fear..
It was from the start...
tpaine posted on 2018-04-09 20:56:51 Reply Private Reply
#45: Hank Rearden To: tpaine (#44)
See my post #43 - those assholes have a lot to keep hidden.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-09 20:58:09 Reply Private Reply
#46: Justified To: Jameson (#42)
That's insane! You have your head stuck in a mile of shit to not see the truth. The truth is if he had done anything wrong he would have done been impeached and prosecuted!
So, you think Mueller's investigation has broken laws....please share!!
Yes! Michael Flynn case. Which I hope they sue Mueller and the judge for misleading and hiding information which Mr Flynn was suppose have been provided.
Justified posted on 2018-04-09 21:00:46 Reply Private Reply
#47: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#43)
Uranium One scandal - there was no scandal.
Benghazi coverup - right, so somehow the entire justice department was willing to look the other way....nah
Mrs. Shithead's conscious theft and exposure of classified national- security documents on an insecure toy bathroom server.
Seriously, if there were really anything that was critical, there would have been charges filed. It was investigated fully.
And yes, they DID conspire to cook up phony "Russian collusion" attacks on Donald Trump
No, that didn't happen.
fabricated "dossier"
Wrong Steele's dossier was legitimate and corroborated many facts the FBI already knew.
The collusion with Russians was constructed by the DNC and the Mrs. Shithead campaign via Perkins-Coie, Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele.
No, that's false as well. Those you mentioned did not fabricate the fact that the russians interfered with our election on SH45's behalf.
We know that; it's out there on the record;
Please cite your source!!!
Jameson posted on 2018-04-09 21:08:49 Reply Private Reply
#48: Justified To: All (#46)
CT is believing nothing abnormal is happening.
CT is believing there is no witch hunt going on to take out Trump.
CT is believing the "deep state"(Regressives/big government lackeys) is not fishing to gather info to try to use it against Trump, his family and friends!
Justified posted on 2018-04-09 21:17:35 Reply Private Reply
#49: Justified To: Jameson, Hank Rearden (#47)
Hog wash! Made up shit paid for by Demoncrat party! You are one deluded person!
Justified posted on 2018-04-09 21:19:18 Reply Private Reply
#50: Jameson To: Justified (#46)
This is what Mr. Mueller's investigation is determining, you understand that right?
So, you think Mueller's investigation has broken laws....please share!!
Yes! Michael Flynn case.
And exactly which laws were broken, judge Judy?
Jameson posted on 2018-04-09 21:35:39 Reply Private Reply
#51: Vicomte13 To: tpaine (#6)
What we SHOULD do is militarily strike Syria to take out Assad, because he's a butcher and his continued rule there is a menace to us.
We should tell the Russians that we are going to take out the Syrian regime unless they control Assad and stop the nonsense. If they do that, then they get to keep their port in Tartarus, which is their only port in the Mediterranean. But we will not be deterred by their threats of action, because they cannot take military action against the United States without being defeated. We are much, much stronger than Russia militarily. Putin is not going to blow up the world over Syria - THEREFORE we are going to have our way there. The Russians can decide if our way will be to kill Assad and allow a new government to come into place, which will probably order the Russians out of their base, and thereby drive them out of the Mediterranean Sea completely, OR THEY can control Assad, in which case he can stay and be civilized. But Assad is not going to be permitted, then, to use poison gas, to kill civilians friendly to us. He can be a palace eunuch, under Russian control, so the Russians keep their base, OR we can kill him, hand Syria over to new rulers, and the Russians will have to go.
And yeah, we CAN destroy the Russian Army and Navy and Air Force in Syria, pretty easily, and no, Putin will not blow up the world over that any more than we did over losing Vietnam.
The problem is that Russia has played a dangerous game of brinkmanship in Syria, but the US is now provoked, and Trump does not seem likely to back down. Therefore Putin will back down: by controlling Assad (better for Russia), or he will hang tough and threaten harm to the US if we remove Assad. In which case we remove Assad and tell Putin: Russia is too weak to fight us. All you have is nukes, and if you use those, you commit suicide. If you're going to commit suicide over Syria, do it. If not, leave. And take you fleet with you. If the Russians fight us in Syria, we annihilate their army and their navy in Syria. No need to invade Russia at all.
They have chosen to get in bed with a war criminal. They can stay in bed with him, and he can live, if they control him like a puppet and stop the nonsense. Otherwise, the dominos fall, and in the end Russia either blinks, or goes to war and is defeated, or blows up the world and ends humanity.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-09 21:42:40 Reply Private Reply
#52: Jameson To: Justified (#49)
What exactly was "made up"??
Jameson posted on 2018-04-09 21:43:25 Reply Private Reply
#53: Vicomte13 To: Jameson (#13)
To which he would reply "NO", and then the mother of all Constitutional crises would begin.
Where that would end is difficult to say.
The leadership might agree on impeachment and do it, but would the Senate agree by a 2/3rds majority? And would the President simply passively watch as they did this?
Would the People?
Would Trump let himself be removed by an attempted Congressional coup? Doubt it.
There are plenty of non-politicians loyal to the President. And that's where things get interesting.
Trump should fire Mueller tomorrow.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-09 21:57:30 Reply Private Reply
#54: Vicomte13 To: Jameson (#17)
Truth is, Americans hate each other about as much as our politicians do.
Will the losing side accept defeat and submit in a nation with so...many...guns?
I doubt it. But call me an optimist. Don't assume that because Nixon blinked that every President has to blink. Trump's not likely to blink. Then will Congress blink?
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-09 22:03:14 Reply Private Reply
#55: Jameson To: Vicomte13 (#53)
I think he would be persuaded to step aside.
Jameson posted on 2018-04-09 22:05:54 Reply Private Reply
#56: Jameson To: Vicomte13 (#54)
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one....
Jameson posted on 2018-04-09 22:07:30 Reply Private Reply
#57: GrandIsland To: Jameson (#32)
Who gives a shit what an intolerant snowflake asshole, like you, thinks? I laugh my ass off at your anguish.
Trump won, and that cunt shitlary lost along with socialist sanders. Suck it up, snowflake.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-04-09 23:05:37 Reply Private Reply
#58: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#55)
Dream on little bitch. A civil war is preferable to your coup.
A K A Stone posted on 2018-04-10 08:52:26 Reply Private Reply
#59: Jameson To: A K A Stone (#58)
- COUP - noun - a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
You're using the wrong word, Mr.Lahey.
Please answer these questions:
Why do you believe that there COULD be a civil war?
Exactly who would be on each side?
How/When would this ridiculous fantasy take place?
Where do you get your "information"???
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 09:10:41 Reply Private Reply
#60: Hank Rearden To: All (#0)
Don't worry about the fact that the decrepit, smelly, felonious old bitch and Smartest Womyn in the WorldTM doesn't seem to realize we're a republic, not a democracy.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-10 09:12:54 Reply Private Reply
#61: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#59)
You're not a real American.
A K A Stone posted on 2018-04-10 09:16:16 Reply Private Reply
#62: Jameson To: A K A Stone (#61)
Why do you believe that there COULD be a civil war?
This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. It could never happen.
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 09:38:27 Reply Private Reply
#63: Hank Rearden To: Jameson (#62)
Never say never.
Do you think the Normal-American Community would accede to your leftist desires for a bullshit socialist banana-republic tyranny, the likes of which have infested the Dept of InJustice and Feeble Bunch of Incompetents?
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-10 09:40:41 Reply Private Reply
#64: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#0)
The evidence sought by investigators reportedly relates to bank fraud and campaign finance violations, both of which primarily point to one thing. Cohen apparently used a home equity credit line to borrow the $130,000 he paid Stormy Daniels for her silence just weeks before the 2016 election. If Cohen lied to obtain credit from a federally insured financial institution, that is a felony punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment. And because the payment was likely an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign, it could constitute a willful violation of campaign contribution limits, a separate felony punishable by up to five years imprisonment.
That the investigation of Cohen was apparently referred by special counsel Robert Mueller to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New Yorka Trump appointeeis an early indication that at this point, the matter is not directly related to the Russia investigation. But that doesnt mean Trumps exposure is any less serious. Cohen knows where the LLCs are hidden. Hes been at the center of Trumps financial universe for decades. If he is as exposed as he seems on the Daniels payment, one wonders what information he might be able to offer prosecutorsincluding Muellerin exchange for a deal.
In addition, while the guilty pleas of Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, deputy campaign chair Rick Gates, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn were all significant, none of them directly jeopardized the president the way a Cohen deal would. If the FBI seized evidence showing that Trump directed Cohens payment to Daniels, Trump may also have committed a felony violation of campaign finance law. If Cohen and Trump worked together to come up with the scheme, they might also both be guilty of conspiring to commit a campaign finance violation. And if Trump (notwithstanding his recent denial) actually knew that he was the beneficiary of the nondisclosure agreement, he might be guilty of a separate offensefailing to report that asset on his personal financial disclosure form.
By NORMAN EISEN, NOAH BOOKBINDER and CONOR SHAW April 09, 2018
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/09/fbi-raid-michael-cohen- donald-trump-robert-mueller-217841
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 09:45:02 Reply Private Reply
#65: Hank Rearden To: Jameson (#64)
How does that banana-republic fishing expedition relate to Russian collusion with the DNC and Hillary Milhous Felon and the rest of her obvious crimes?
Or to anything at all?
We're looking at the random, capricious police state so desired by democRats, with nary a peep from the ACLU.
You know what I think? I think Magoo-Mueller is desperate to goad President Trump into firing his crooked ass, because he's got nothing at all. He wants to sneak away under cover of "See, he hates me!" instead of being revealed as a malicious fraud who participated in many criminal acts and coverups himself as part of the corrupt Odumbass regime.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-10 09:48:52 Reply Private Reply
#66: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#63)
Never.
The vast majority of Americans care more about American Idol, The Real Housewives, and what is going on with the Kardashians than whether or not DD45 remains as golfer-in-chief....
the Normal-American Community
heh heh, sure - the NAC will be drinking PBR's at the corner bar and shaking their fists at the TV in the corner just like every other night...
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 09:53:15 Reply Private Reply
#67: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#65)
Sure.
Listen, the good news for you and the NAC, is that you'll have something to be pissed-off about for years to come!
Enjoy!
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 09:55:53 Reply Private Reply
#68: Hank Rearden To: Jameson (#66)
People as dumb as a democRat always seem to assume everybody else is as dumb as a democRat.
This is why you'll lose in November and won't understand why this time around either. Then you can stay pissed off at your ignominious defeat for years to come.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-10 09:55:53 Reply Private Reply
#69: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#68)
Really, how about some predictions ???
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 09:58:10 Reply Private Reply
#70: Justified To: Jameson (#50)
No that's not true. Only an imbecile would think this after all that has been found out. This is about finding something to hang Trump with because he has thumbed his nose at the powers that be.
If this were about true and justice the Department of justice would be investigating the DNC, FBI, Obama and Clinton collusion to start with. They have already investigated Trump to a point were they could count the hairs on his head and found ZERO.
Justified posted on 2018-04-10 10:52:00 Reply Private Reply
#71: Justified To: Jameson (#52)
Which again was paid for by the DNC/Clintons put together by an exspy from England from made up crap given to them by a paid Russian! Lets not forget Regressives GPS who is an American hater propagandist who is being sued for their part.
Justified posted on 2018-04-10 11:02:34 Reply Private Reply
#72: Jameson To: Justified (#70)
I realize you want desperately to believe this, but it is simply not true.
Mr. Mueller was hired to carry out this investigation and follow the truth wherever it leads. It is not over yet.
"the Department of justice would be investigating the DNC, FBI, Obama and Clinton collusion to start with..."
Why doesn't donnie dumb-ass demand a special council for this purpose? He is POTUS - he has the power and authority....so why does he look the other way?
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 11:05:37 Reply Private Reply
#73: Justified To: Jameson (#72)
Your biases are so huge that even a blind man could see them. They have already told Trump he has not been found guilty in the so called investigation. So yes they have tore into his life with a fine tooth comb looking for something and found nothing they could use.
"the Department of justice would be investigating the DNC, FBI, Obama and Clinton collusion to start with..."
Why doesn't donnie dumb-ass demand a special council for this purpose? He is POTUS - he has the power and authority....so why does he look the other way?
Because he gets mileage from this being in the news. He is showing how bias the MSM is and how corrupt the government really is. There is no doubt in any sane person how bad the powers that be have become!
Again if they would have found one thing Trump would have been impeached and be in orange right at this movement. So please throw you biases somewhere else because I will keep sticking it in your face!
Justified posted on 2018-04-10 11:29:47 Reply Private Reply
#74: Hank Rearden To: Jameson (#72)
They will pay for that, and their attempt to frame our President. Watch and see.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-10 11:36:02 Reply Private Reply
#75: Vicomte13 To: Jameson (#62)
Because the Right have come to hate the Left, and want to see them dead. And vice versa. The two side literally hate each other now, and want to crush the other. All it would take would be a pivotal event to harden the battle lines. A gun confiscation could do it, or the impeachment of Trump on bogus charges.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-10 15:28:41 Reply Private Reply
#76: Jameson To: Justified (#73)
False - the investigation continues, and who are "they"?
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 15:43:35 Reply Private Reply
#77: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#74)
So...somehow HRC and President Obama are behind the attempt by the justice department and the intelligence community to frame little donnie......
That is the most ridiculous claim I've heard.
Do you actually believe this??
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 15:52:11 Reply Private Reply
#78: Jameson To: Vicomte13 (#75)
I don't agree. While there may be a small percentage of radicalized whack-jobs (on both sides) who are so insecure that they take any difference of opinion as a personal threat. - This is not the majority - and the vast majority of Americans would consider the talk of civil war to be the rantings of loonies.
Jameson posted on 2018-04-10 16:03:17 Reply Private Reply
#79: Hank Rearden To: Jameson (#77)
So stop being an ignorant dipshit and follow what's been discovered to date. Look up Fusion GPS, Crowdstrike, Perkins Coie and the "Russian hacking" of the DNC for which there is ZERO evidence. Start there; it's about 10% of the corruption reported to date.
There - I've led you to water. If you don't want to drink, then dehydrate and disappear for all I care. I'm not going to waste any more time on those who insist on remaining ignorant. People like you elect Maxine Waters, after all.
Or if you're too lazy or too stupid to comprehend, then just STFU and wait and see. As it is, you just look like a democRat retard at the (very low) level of a Berniezuela supporter.
Ignorance is very limiting, but democRats count on it for their survival.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-04-10 16:35:33 Reply Private Reply
#80: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#78)
All leftists are wack jobs.
A K A Stone posted on 2018-04-10 20:34:06 Reply Private Reply
#81: Vicomte13 To: Jameson (#78)
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-10 20:44:03 Reply Private Reply
#82: GrandIsland To: Hank Rearden (#79)
A filthy ignorant reverse racist POTATO.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-04-10 21:52:49 Reply Private Reply
#83: redleghunter To: A K A Stone (#80)
redleghunter posted on 2018-04-11 00:47:23 Reply Private Reply
#84: paraclete To: redleghunter (#83)
interesting question, but then they weren't looking for reds under the bed, if they were they might have found some, or stacks of emails
paraclete posted on 2018-04-11 02:05:41 Reply Private Reply
#85: Vicomte13 To: redleghunter (#83)
Because our government is rotten to the core.
This is why we elected Trump: to be a bull in a China shop.
It's time for him to BE that bull.
He's been told by advisors "he can't". But now he MUST do what he "can't". Because he CAN.
Yes, it will cause an UTTER meltdown of the US economy, send us into a great depression. There will be riots and there will be political chaos and all sorts of things might happen.
He might be driven from office. Then again, he might call on the security forces to arrest the perps in the FBI and Congress and the security forces might prevail.
Dice will be rolling all over the place, and we could end up in a civil war, or a dictatorship of the Left or the Right.
OR, if he does it and does not back down, the other side may find that all they have is the THREAT of legal action, but that law enforcement will actually stand with the President, and the other sides threats will dissipate. Then THEY will be in the position where they "can't", unless they want to risk arrest, investigation by the IRS, Special Prosecutors.
Trump can direct Sessions to appoint Special Prosecutors to go after the Clintons, Obama, the FBI itself, Lindsey Graham, etc.
HE can unleash special prosecutors on the IRS, on Maxine Waters, on all of his enemies.
Instead of passively letting the left use the law to overthrow him, he can use the law to go after them with abusive investigations and prosecutions, and HE controls the armed forces.
If Trump won't fight to the death, he's a useless turd. Fighting to the death means breaking precedents, doing what he should not do, provoking Constitutional crises, and using the FULL power of his office SWIFTLY to crush his enemies with the full prosecutorial force of the US government - just exactly what they are doing to him.
If I were him, I would have done this months ago. He's followed advice. "Advice" is trying to keep the peace. He needs to stop doing that and fight.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-11 07:39:28 Reply Private Reply
#86: Liberator To: Vicomte13'redleghunter (#85)
I fully agree.
You DO understand the nature of Trump's problems, right? DEMOCRATS are going Full-UnConstitutional, engaging in tyranny.
But...but...what IF that triggers a Civil War?? And the Dems win??
WHICH side will you take?
Liberator posted on 2018-04-11 11:30:52 Reply Private Reply
#87: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#79)
Fusion GPS - Intelligence community, information gathering, due diligence. Hired Christopher Steele, Spy, Russian expert, who dug into DD45's greasy deals with Russia. He wrote a report on what he had discovered and shared it with the US FBI.
Perkins Coie - Counsel of record for essentially the entire Democratic party, including Obama and HRC. Hired Fusion GPS for intelligence on republican opponents and issues leading up to 2016 election cycle.
DNC Hack - there is, in fact mounting evidence of the Russian hack. recently from the Dutch intelligence agency.
In order to take these fairly ordinary players and events and turn them into the impossible fairy-tail of poor donnie dip-shit being framed by the evil cabal of HRC, Obama, the Bush family and their bots....
...you've got to buy into the idea of a secret society of elitists (the scary "deep state") conspiring to take down the only pure American leader in 200 years who is here to 'drain the swamp".
It's a crock, James.
The idea of the "deep state" or the "Illuminati," the Masons, the CFR, or the Bilderburgers is a physiological crutch that allows the weak minded to have an excuse for their miserable unsatisfying lives.
That's right! things will be just swell as soon as SH Donnie drains the swamp!!
and anyone who doesn't agree is a commie! and isn't a real 'mercan patriot!!
Please enjoy your fantasy and remember to clean up your mess and wash your hands. Thanks
Jameson posted on 2018-04-11 12:57:30 Reply Private Reply
#88: Liberator To: Hank Rearden, Jameson (#79)
Truth to Power. You've done all you can do.
It boggles the mind that these types of pods are so brainwashed that they totally dismiss the obvious. Instead they WILLINGLY follow every reptilian Media lie they hear/see and leap over the cliff like lemmings.
Despite having Free Will to choose between Obvious Lies and Obvious Truth, they willingly choose to gag on load after load of every Leftist-Liberal BS dangled before their maw. The level of cognitive dissonance and idiocy in this country is epidemic. It's beyond "sad"; It's beyond "pathetic"; It's emotional and intellectual masochistic.
Liberator posted on 2018-04-11 13:10:04 Reply Private Reply
#89: Jameson To: Liberator (#88)
LOL!!!
Jameson posted on 2018-04-11 13:14:18 Reply Private Reply
#90: Liberator To: Jameson, Hank Rearden (#87)
HA!! LOL@ "fairly ordinary players and events". Chyeah. Just as Hitler, Nero, and Atilla the Hun were "fairly ordinary players".
Jameson circa 1942:
"Stop your paranoia over Hitler and so-called "death camps"; Stop the "Stalin is a ruthless Communist who murdered millions" BS; And Pearl Harbor?? Did we REALLY go to war over a few old ships getting bombed at some remote US territory?"
You don't do much independent critical thinking, do you?
In your Alternative Universe apparently ONLY Conservatives and especially Donald Trump stand in the way of your "Utopian Society". Do all your co-bot cultists agree on the same exact narrative? Do you all kneel as you watch Kimmel, Colbert and MSNBC?
Liberator posted on 2018-04-11 13:26:30 Reply Private Reply
#91: Liberator To: Jameson (#89)
Liberator posted on 2018-04-11 13:27:54 Reply Private Reply
#92: Justified To: Jameson (#76)
Justified posted on 2018-04-12 19:16:29 Reply Private Reply
#93: Jameson To: Liberator (#90)
No such thing - sorry for your luck
Do you all kneel as you watch Kimmel, Colbert and MSNBC?
I liked Jimmy Kimmel on The Man Show - Funny stuff! - I saw a few episodes of The Colbert Report in the past - I thought he was a clever guy! - I don't watch MSNBC....
As for kneeling, - only at Mass....which is a rare occasion
Jameson posted on 2018-04-12 19:30:17 Reply Private Reply