Michael Cohen office raided by FBI

[Lakhota]

Breaking on almost every news outlet on the planet: Trump's lawyer's office raided by FBI

Breaking on Fox News. Diamond and Silk censored by Facebook

John Roberts is reporting it now. Too big not to.

When did John Roberts go to Fox? Ugh.

John Roberts has been with Fox for several years - although I don't know why...since he seems sane.

 

[Valerie]

Don Jr.'s ridiculous claim about attorney-client privilege

"Donald Trump Jr. recently told a Congressional committee he could not answer questions about a phone conversation he had with his father, President Donald Trump. Trump Jr. claimed that because attorneys were present on the call he had the right to invoke the attorney-client privilege.

This was not just any father-son chat. Trump Jr. and President Trump were speaking in July 2017, right after his now-infamous meeting in June 2016 became national news. In that 2016 meeting, held at Trump Tower, Trump Jr. allegedly asked a Russian lawyer if they had dirt on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

But attorney-client privilege is actually much narrower than people, or at least Trump Jr., seems to think.

The privilege was designed to protect certain communications made between the attorney and the client. The point is to allow people to tell their attorneys the real and full story regarding their cases without fear that the information discussed will be disclosed.

However, attorneys are not wizards. Merely having one in the room or on the phone does not automatically make communications subject to the attorney-client privilege."

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

Though Mueller was empowered to investigate Russians? Did not know he was charged with investigating possible sexual peccadillos from over 10 years ago? Next up I guess is looking into how Trump pays his credit card bills?

It wasn't Mueller who got the multiple search warrants. I was the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York headed up by a Trump and Company appointee who replaced Prete Bharara last year, or did that slip your grasp? And it's not about one of the Clown's peccadillos but election campaign funds! Get Thee informed!

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Does this mean we won’t be getting any threads today about how rhe Russia investigation is long over and that it’s actually Obama and Hillary that have been under investigation?

What does Stormy Daniels have to do with Putin making you flip your vote?

What does a blow job have to do with a land deal?

 

[JimH52]

Oh I can just see the tweets Donald uses against the FBI now.

Nearly time to start WW III Donnie....

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Mueller just opened his own exit door
First the rumors sbout Russians gets him appointed
Then rumors about a porn star from a time that being President was not on Trumps mind
Now we have this abusive prosecuriotual leap which amount to"Looks like some salacious stuff with Stormy so let's poke around to see if there is anything else"
It's absurd and juevenille and time to show him the door. This is nothing other than an attempt to overturn an election-a coup
6Try pushing thus bullsh*t much further and you won't have 200,000 people downtown; more like 2 million

Hmmmm.....yeah, I've seen all those enraged Right Wingers in the streets. Vicious, rowdy bunch aren't they? (All 25 of them)
Maybe 20....is closer to reality. People on the right have their Prayers and guns to save them. No need to get involved apparently.

Mueller could probably throw Trump in prison tonight and the worst blowback would probably be angry forum chatter from the Right.
Probably why they did this. No fear. Nothing TO fear.
The Right in Venezuela did the same thing......Keep believeing prayers and their Constitution would keep em safe. Oh well.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Does this mean we won’t be getting any threads today about how rhe Russia investigation is long over and that it’s actually Obama and Hillary that have been under investigation?

the russia investigation is long over. I'm happy to acknowledge that. this has nothing to do with russia, so keep it in perspective please.

This does not mean that the Russian investigation is over by a long shot. Mueller can walk and crew gum at the same time

Rod Rosenstein’s Letter Appointing Mueller Special Counsel

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Mr. Cohen is at the center of several aspects of the special counsel’s investigation. He also acknowledged paying $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.

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.”

More: F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen - The New York Times

Apparently involves Stormy Daniels - and more.

I am no lawyer- and as such I wonder how a search warrant like that gets past lawyer/client privilege.

I would think that the only way to break that privilege would be to allege that the lawyer may have been involved with a criminal conspiracy with his client.

Every scrap is subject to a motion to suppress.

See Cohen is not charged with a criminal conspiracy. No one is. Trump isn't even charged with a criminal conspiracy. A prosecutor does not get to investigate just to investigate and hope they find a criminal conspiracy.

 

[Valerie]

9 legal experts on why Trump Jr. can't hide behind attorney-client privilege

“A lawyer isn't a walking cone of silence.”

9 legal experts on why Trump Jr. can't hide behind attorney-client privilege

 

[MindWars]

When retards can't figure out why there is a raid.

 

[usmbguest5318]

What a lousy way to start the week....huh MIkey?

Lousy for some. Good tidings for others.

 

[Valerie]

 

[Hutch Starskey]

A few observations:

• Yet again, we see Mueller and the rest of the FBI coming completely "out of the blue" with a bombshell....And people have the temerity to presume they know or can accurately infer the status of Mueller's and other FBI investigations. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
• Mueller is clearly not seeking to overstep the scope of his mandate. His scope is stuff having Russia as part of its nexus of activity in connection with Trump's 2016 election campaign. Cohen has been adamant about not ever having had a role in Trump's campaign. I suspect, consequently, that the raid does not pertain to the the 2016 campaign, but it may pertain to "conventional" federal election law violations, though it may just be
• Whatever Mueller turned over to the NY Southern District of the FBI/DoJ must be quite convincing that there's "there" there. That's my observation because Cohen being the POTUS' personal attorney makes the raid fall into a special class of activities within the FBI whereby officials at the highest levels must approve such a raid. All the people at the highest levels of the FBI and DoJ are Trump appointees.

One prediction:

• Trump is likely apoplectic at the moment and will post a "dipsh*t" tweet about the matter.

accept that stormy was 12 years ago bubba. stay recent.

She was paid off two weeks before the election, dope.

 

[Tom Horn]

I see the board (bored) communists no longer believe in lawyer/client privilege to privacy or that Mueller was ever going to find "collusion" or "obstruction" so who's next...12 year old Barron?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Mueller just opened his own exit door
First the rumors sbout Russians gets him appointed
Then rumors about a porn star from a time that being President was not on Trumps mind
Now we have this abusive prosecuriotual leap which amount to"Looks like some salacious stuff with Stormy so let's poke around to see if there is anything else"
It's absurd and juevenille and time to show him the door. This is nothing other than an attempt to overturn an election-a coup
6Try pushing thus bullsh*t much further and you won't have 200,000 people downtown; more like 2 million

Hmmmm.....yeah, I've seen all those enraged Right Wingers in the streets. Vicious, rowdy bunch aren't they? (All 25 of them)
Maybe 20....is closer to reality. People on the right have their Prayers and guns to save them. No need to get involved apparently.

Mueller could probably throw Trump in prison tonight and the worst blowback would probably be angry forum chatter from the Right.
Probably why they did this. No fear. Nothing TO fear.
The Right in Venezuela did the same thing......Keep believeing prayers and their Constitution would keep em safe. Oh well.

tissue ...maybe some tea and cookies

 

[MaryAnne11]

Breaking on almost every news outlet on the planet: Trump's lawyer's office raided by FBI

Breaking on Fox News. Diamond and Silk censored by Facebook

John Roberts is reporting it now. Too big not to.

When did John Roberts go to Fox? Ugh.

John Roberts has been with Fox for several years - although I don't know why...since he seems sane.

So is Shep Smith!

 

[Syriusly]

Look BOZO's.......

If Trump is guilty of something....FINE.....pay the price.....

But JUSTICE should be applied equally. Don't attack Conservatives and look the other way for Liberals.

And don't make shit up. To a significant extent, it clearly appears the Left simply wants to stop the Right.....PERIOD....with little regard to the law.

Trump is no more guilty of ANYTHING that the Left isn't equally or more guilty of whether you think so or not.

Oh come on, admit it you were cheering when Bill got busted for lying about a blow bob.


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he didn't get impeached for a blow job.

Nor did he say that- again what he said:
when Bill got busted for lying about a blow bob.

 

[Valerie]

The FBI raided the office of President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who has been a key figure in legal matters including the investigations into Russian election meddling and a payment to an adult film actress.

Cohen’s attorney Stephen Ryan said agents on Monday seized documents using several search warrants after a referral to prosecutors in the Southern District of New York based in part on a referral by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The raid signals that the FBI and federal prosecutors in New York are conducting a criminal investigation involving Cohen, although it’s not immediately clear whether he’s a focus of that probe.

FBI Raids Office of Trump Lawyer Cohen on a Mueller Referral

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

I see the board (bored) communists no longer believe in lawyer/client privilege to privacy or that Mueller was ever going to find "collusion" or "obstruction" so who's next...12 year old Barron?

The smart money know its Mueller time
Dow's 400-point rally is nearly erased in final hour on report of FBI raid of Trump's lawyer
Source: CNBC

At its session high, the Dow rose as much as 440.42 points.
The major indexes closed well off their highs after the New York Times reported the FBI raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Read more: Dow's 400-point rally is nearly erased in final hour on report of FBI raid of Trump's lawyer

 

[Zander]

Liberals are still....