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The New Story on the FBI Raid on Trump’s Lawyer Sounds Fishier Than Yesterday’s Story

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Attorney Michael Cohen is surrounded by photographers as he walks down the sidewalk, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, in New York. Federal agents who raided the office of Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, were looking for information about payments to a former Playboy playmate and a porn actress who claim to have had affairs with Trump, two people familiar with the investigation said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

On Monday, FBI agents working under the direction of the US Attorney (actually his deputy) for the Southern District of New York raided, literally, the offices and residence of Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. According to reports at the time they were primarily interested in any record of payoffs on the part of Trump and porn-star Stormy Daniels or former Playboy “model” Karen McDougal, or any records concerning a role that the National Enquirer may have had in keeping the two from taking to the talk show circuit.

To me, this seemed and seems like overkill. But it’s Trump, so who cares, right?

Today, the New York Times has more details, or so we are supposed to believe.

The F.B.I. agents who raided the office and hotel of President Trump’s lawyer on Monday were seeking all records related to the “Access Hollywood” tape in which Mr. Trump was heard making vulgar comments about women, according to three people who have been briefed on the contents of a federal search warrant.

The search warrant also sought evidence of whether the lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, tried to suppress damaging information about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Federal prosecutors are investigating Mr. Cohen for possible bank fraud, but they are also scrutinizing whether these efforts amounted to improper campaign donations to Mr. Trump.

If this is true–big “if”–Trump should fire Rosenstein and anyone involved in approving this raid on Cohen today. Like this minute. Because this is a travesty. If Cohen didn’t try to suppress the Access Hollywood tape he wouldn’t have been very much of a lawyer. If there was a claim of extortion or blackmail or threatening someone, I could understand. But illegal campaign contributions. In the immortal words of one of my platoon sergeants, “gimme a m–f–ing break.” As far as illegal campaign contributions go, this is how they are treated…if your name isn’t Trump:

President Obama’s campaign has agreed to pay a $375,000 fine to the Federal Election Commission, among the largest penalties in the agency’s history.

Yes, tell me more. And hold onto your hats here because I’m about to engage in whataboutism:

The document shows that the Obama campaign failed to disclose the identities of donors responsible for $2 million in contributions in the weeks ahead of the election. The campaign also misreported the dates of $85 million in other contributions.

In addition, the Obama campaign also kept $1.3 million in contributions that were above the legal maximum allowed for a federal campaign, failing to return them within the 60 days required by law. The campaign kept almost $874,000 of those donations until the FEC discovered they were unlawful.

So a multi-million dollar violation of campaign finance laws gets you a negotiated fine, but a couple of hundred thousand gets an FBI raid. Go figure.

People close to Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen regard the warrant as an attempt by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to pry into Mr. Trump’s personal life — using other prosecutors as his proxy.

Bingo. That’s what I said yesterday. The “crimes” are a pretense. The real objective is obtaining the privileged communications between Cohen and Trump and passing those on to Mueller. I don’t care how much Chris Christie loves his “taint,” no sane person believes that prosecutors aren’t going to share any an all information that comes out of this raid.

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Source: https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/04/11/new-story-fbi-raid-trumps-lawyer-sounds-fishier-yesterdays-story/


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    • harry

      This is their ( democratic ) their last attempt to rid -Trump action. The results will be interesting?

    • harry

      The end result of this action will be interesting to watch.

    • jdpent01

      FBI, Its so bogus and showmanship, to cause a whorl of excitement among MSM and the press reporters that lean left NICE AND QUIET NOW, ITS 4 IN THE MORNING raid results, we got him boxed in now, fire MUELLER he is out,ATTORNEY CLIENT relationship broken,. No the charge ought to be FBI & DOJ LEADERSHIP BROKE ALL THE LAWS AND Seditiously tried to remove the POTUS if he won, not done in a dark corner, Obama briefed daily on the issue with his instruction ‘I want it done by the book’ he is up to his ears in this Treason and should go to jail with all the rest of them, them being Rhodes, Mills, Abiden, Hillary, Power, Jarrett, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Page, Strzok, Ohr’s, Mueller, Rosenstein, Sessions, Weissman,Schiff, Schumer, OS Pagliano, DOJ Lynch, Holder, and anyone else pushing and supporting this Treason all knowing it a frame up from the very start to over throw the election. finding no Collusion which isn’t a crime to begin with they went to finances, end up in consented sex looking for fraud of the monies paid to a hooker to see if it was legit attorney said he paid out of his own pocket but they FBI did not believe him so they got an approval to break attorney client relationship thus a back door to Trumps Business, if they go beyond looking at prostitute money.

    • Rockledge

      It is the same old story. The same thing was done to President Clinton, trying to sidetrack him from fixing the country by some pointless meaningless blowjob when they couldn’t bring him down any other way.
      They will keep hammering at President Trump until they whack his soft spot.

      Dirty politics, it is just part of human life.

    • Pink Slime

      This is their attempt not to have an outsider in control, lest he reveal all their crimes worthy of a firing squad. As another writer put it, they do not want free people, they do not desire their Constitution, nor do they want rule of law and are showing you what they think you should be ruled by – Democraps and their bureaucraps.

      They want and desire COMMUNISM on you.

      All of them should be arrested and many HANGED for they have decided to HIJACK your Constitution, your rule of law, your personal liberties and freedom – starting with your GUNS, then your property – in the form of illegal liens called “property tax”, then they wantto rape your daughters and wives and KILL YOU by sending you off to war. :twisted:

    • Everette

      I don’t know about you but I have gotten sick and tired of stabs in the dark from democrats trying to take down Trump ! Now mind you it was reported that Obama had boys he was screwing in our White House even killing them later . One of his friends ask him while on video do you prefer ketchup on your hot dog , he replied no not above the age of 12 . Meaning this bastard bites off the dicks of little boys . Billy boy Clinton had Monaca sucking him off in the White House . Hillary was reported have more sex eating out women than Billy boy did . Infidelity among the presidents going as far back as Kennedy who screwed Marilyn Monroe on his birthday getting her pregnant to which the secret service moved in on the epasoid and killed her . But here we have a woman or 2 that claims Trump paid them off to keep quite because he decided her wanted a little on the side that took place before his running for president . If it was between 2 consenting adults then what does these women have against Trump other than maybe having an affair on his wife . This should be between Trump and his wife , billy boys affair and trial case proved this when some were trying to empeach him . How many Americans have had sex with someone else while being married ? More than half of the married couples . No it is not right , but what does the government have to do with it ? Now let’s get stupid ! More than half of congress and the senate has been to Hillary’s billionaire friends island and had underage sex with minors . Some have even enjoyed killing the child afterwards . Some have even hunted children or teenagers in the woods or over the hills and mountains as animals killing them for sport !this was reported to have been taped so Hillary could blackmail them to sway them to sell out America to the foreign NWO natzi Vatican and UN Muslims . Many have had their hands in our child sex trafficking acts against our children . Many have had prostitutes brought to them in hotels or motels with our tax dollars . Let’s say Trump did have sex with a porn star . Curiosity got the best of him is she so good she can blow his mind . Agreeing she gave him some . Then blackmailing him she decided she want to get ahead of laying on her back servicing men . She blackmailed him for money . Who has committed the real crime here ? The woman ! The crime Trump committed was cheating on his wife which is between him and his wife . So maybe the lawyer said lets give her some money that she is demanding so you can go on with your life and so that your wife will not here about it . If she took the money it was blackmail money . The agreement was paid for and her services was also paid for . She can not double dip . Or we have a second blackmail charge against her . But now going to the media to destroy Trumps marriage and his presidency she has commited another crime . She had been paid well for her blackmail sex act . Other than Mrs.Trump now divorcing Donald what really can the government do ? If he is held accountable then 3/4 of America has committed adultry or fornication . If Trump is empeached for something he did before getting elected then all living presidents need to be rounded up and jailed for the crimes they committed in our White House with children and prostitutes . Not counting those they had before or after being president . Heck we made a holiday for Martin Luther King who was a womanizer and even reported beating women he was having sex with . Who knows maybe his wife even got a little beating herself . Can anyone see the picture these Hippocrates are trying to paint for us about Trump ? When in fact they themselves have committed far worse crimes ? This seems to be another witch hunt for anything to empeach Trump because the NWO and UN are not happy that they can’t start their world domination and rule to which all those adding and a betting have committed Treason with these entities against America and our Constitution . This crap needs to stop !!! No human being on earth has a perfect record . Jesus Himself said ye who are ( without) sin cast the first stone ! Anyone can see Trump is not purposefully committing crimes as are his accusers are doing ! I wish Trump would now turn loose all the eveadence he has against every member of congress , the senate , the justic system and the past presidents and those that had run for president like Hillary Clinton . Obama committed Treaon after Treason against our Constitution and the American people . His executive orders prove this . His crime filled actions prove this . And he is still behind the scenes committing Treason . But here we have a witch hunt trying to turn over any stone to find just something wrong with Trump ! I am sick of it ! America is sick of it ! We need to hold accountable those involved in the witch hunt ! It like Russia caloosion . Hillary and Obama commited it well with Russia selling them our Urainium nuclear bomb making material . This is just one of many crimes they committed with the Russians . For months now we have witchhunted on Trump finding nothing . But in this hunt they are trying to uncover just something else , anything to try and cause Him pain . If I was Trump I would show them what pain was for their murders of children , sex trafficking , buying prostitution with tax payers money , committing Treason selling out America to foreign entities ! Trump has tried to keep America’s love towards the governmen system . But we all know it is corrupt . It’s time to clean house and rid ourselves of the varmints and bugs crawling in our tax paid for offices . Time to squash the bugs !!! Time to get the pest control and spray the bugs ! Trump it’s time to kick ass ! Enough is Enough !!!

      • Rockledge

        Some paragraphs would have made your post readable.

    • unidentified

      you want to monitor a secret slush fund you should investigate the rnc and dnc and all the people that managed campaign contributions , aka pay to play donations

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