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Post by chiver78 on Apr 9, 2018 15:20:45 GMT -5
interesting news for this beautiful Monday..... NYT linkBy Matt Apuzzo April 9, 2018 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. **************************************************************************************************** click the link above for full coverage.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 9, 2018 15:26:03 GMT -5
Hmmm, expect the tweeting to begin momentarily.
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Post by steff on Apr 9, 2018 15:28:42 GMT -5
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Post by steff on Apr 9, 2018 15:29:25 GMT -5
oops I just started the same subject in current events.
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Post by swamp on Apr 9, 2018 15:29:34 GMT -5
Place your bets.
I'm going with tax fraud.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 9, 2018 15:30:16 GMT -5
it's all good. I can merge them if need be
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Post by Jaguar on Apr 9, 2018 15:35:23 GMT -5
One by one they all fall down ..... to be continued!
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 9, 2018 15:39:50 GMT -5
Place your bets. I'm going with tax fraud. The possibilities are almost endless.
I can't decide if I think it's money laundering through his real estate deals or if they're trying to find out where the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels came from.
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Post by mmhmm on Apr 9, 2018 16:01:29 GMT -5
Schneiderman's group and Mueller's group have been working together right along. They interchange information so everyone is kept up to speed and each group can make use of the information that's most pertinent to their particular interest. Schneiderman has been a lot more forthcoming with information than Mueller has been able to be.
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Post by mmhmm on Apr 9, 2018 16:12:33 GMT -5
I'll merge Steff's thread into this one since this one was the first one started. No sense in having two threads both discussing the same thing.
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Post by kadee79 on Apr 9, 2018 16:53:13 GMT -5
I'm thinking it "might" have something to do with illegal campaign contributions...the Daniels payment?
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Post by busymom on Apr 9, 2018 19:15:54 GMT -5
Things are about to get interesting for Trump's attorney.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 9, 2018 19:18:39 GMT -5
I'm going to merge this into the thread that's already been started.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Apr 9, 2018 19:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 9, 2018 19:35:59 GMT -5
This isn't a tweet but it is a start: www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/politics/donald-trump-fbi-michael-cohen/index.html
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump slammed the FBI raid on his personal attorney Michael Cohen's office and hotel room as a "disgraceful situation" and "an attack on our country."
"I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. Good man. And it's a disgraceful situation. It's a total witch hunt," Trump said Monday, referring to a lawful FBI raid. "It's an attack on our country," Trump said. "It's an attack on what we all stand for."
Stand by for tweeting entertainment.
ETA: didn't the lawyer's lawyer recently say that the lawyer was not dt's lawyer? So who is lying the lawyer, the lawyer's lawyer, dt, or all of the aforementioned?
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 9, 2018 19:47:53 GMT -5
This isn't a tweet but it is a start: www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/politics/donald-trump-fbi-michael-cohen/index.html
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump slammed the FBI raid on his personal attorney Michael Cohen's office and hotel room as a "disgraceful situation" and "an attack on our country."
"I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. Good man. And it's a disgraceful situation. It's a total witch hunt," Trump said Monday, referring to a lawful FBI raid. "It's an attack on our country," Trump said. "It's an attack on what we all stand for."
Stand by for tweeting entertainment.
ETA: didn't the lawyer's lawyer recently say that the lawyer was not dt's lawyer? So who is lying the lawyer, the lawyer's lawyer, dt, or all of the aforementioned?
Trump’s Lawyer’s Lawyer Now Says Trump’s Lawyer Wasn’t Actua
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Post by swamp on Apr 9, 2018 20:05:27 GMT -5
They broke in? What about the warrant?
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 9, 2018 20:12:55 GMT -5
They broke in? What about the warrant? Warrant, schmarrant... It's not fair I tell you and it an attack against all dt stands for
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Post by swamp on Apr 9, 2018 20:18:09 GMT -5
So the head of the US attorney office that drafted the warrant is a trump,appointee, a republican, and donated to trumps campaign. So much for a democratic witch hunt.
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Post by tallguy on Apr 9, 2018 20:30:03 GMT -5
So the head of the US attorney office that drafted the warrant is a trump,appointee, a republican, and donated to trumps campaign. So much for a democratic witch hunt. Don't you hate it when integrity jumps up and bites you when you weren't expecting it?
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Apr 9, 2018 20:32:50 GMT -5
This is Trumps law.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 9, 2018 21:10:25 GMT -5
So the head of the US attorney office that drafted the warrant is a trump,appointee, a republican, and donated to trumps campaign. So much for a democratic witch hunt. Don't you hate it when integrity jumps up and bites you when you weren't expecting it? Especially if you work so hard at making sure none of those "integrity afflicted" people get anywhere near you. Someone's head will roll over this
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 9, 2018 22:22:53 GMT -5
he's losing his mind over this one. put a cup over the red button.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 9, 2018 22:23:48 GMT -5
Place your bets. I'm going with tax fraud. accepting money from foreign governments wins my vote.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 9, 2018 22:33:43 GMT -5
I would say the same. Hubs and I have always figured they would get the trumpster for
tax evasion or money laundering, something to do with the money trail. Shrewd move so
if trumpster fires Mueller this will still continue. They said Mueller always gets his man,
no matter how long it takes.
I wish they would get trump soon so he can't damage the country anymore and its institutions, however, I'm very fearful of holier then thou pence. Man he is just no good.
I only pray he never gets another term, but the way they are playing, they demonize any opponents and the idiots out here believe it.
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Post by dezii on Apr 9, 2018 23:24:37 GMT -5
and confiscating files at his LAWYERS offices...home...where ever...Feels unfair because ...not sure what was unfair since FBI would have had to go before a Judge and convince him / her that there was reasonable cause of some such illegal stuff that had to be investigated and information needed at these offices...especially regarding Lawyers offices...client privileges and the attorney for a VIP.. our POTUS himself.....so what was unfair....and I see he still brought up our old friend Hillery, e mails, bad evil things tha had nothing to do with him.. [sigh...is our POTUS starting to lose it already?] ----------------------------------- "Federal agents on Monday raided the office of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics including a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels. A furious Trump, who in the last month has escalated his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, said from the White House that it was a "disgrace" that the FBI "broke into" his lawyer's office. He called Mueller's investigation "an attack on our country," prompting new speculation that he might seek the removal of the Justice Department's special counsel." ------------------------------------------ ......... www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-federal-agents-trump-lawyer-20180409-story.html
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Post by OldCoyote on Apr 9, 2018 23:36:38 GMT -5
How long has this investigation been going on? a year and a half?
At this point what has been found?
A couple have lied to the FBI,
What serious stuff has been found ,, Like what person has so far been given a short jail sentence.
Pages and pages of guesses and accusation,, but so far the has been nothing Earth shaking going on,,
Why do you get back to this when you have something.
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 9, 2018 23:36:57 GMT -5
Lol! Starting to lose it? Trump can see "losing it" in the rear view mirror.
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Post by tallguy on Apr 9, 2018 23:40:56 GMT -5
You really have no idea how any of this works, do you?
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 9, 2018 23:43:57 GMT -5
How long has this investigation been going on? a year and a half? At this point what has been found? A couple have lied to the FBI, What serious stuff has been found ,, Like what person has so far been given a short jail sentence. Pages and pages of guesses and accusation,, but so far the has been nothing Earth shaking going on,, Why do you get back to this when you have something. Robert Mueller was not named to lead the investigation until May 17, 2017. Tallguy is right.
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