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Cohen Raid Is More Government Misconduct By Larry Klayman Newsmax April 10, 2018 With the news that our so-called government raided the offices and home of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and a ruling yesterday by federal judge Amy Berman Jackson, also an Obama appointee, keeping former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort unjustly under house arrest despite his willingness to post over $10 million in bond, the state of the nation has now risen to a dangerous level of government tyranny that we have not experienced since the days leading up to our revolution. Notwithstanding that the…
By Greg Sargent Washington Post April 10, 2018 THE MORNING PLUM: Now that President Trump has openly, explicitly confirmed in plain, intelligible language that he is seriously considering trying to remove special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, it is instructive to revisit all the times Republicans assured us that this couldn’t possibly happen. This morning, Trump once again tweeted furiously about the Russia investigation, blasting it as a “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” and railing that “Attorney-client privilege is dead!” Trump was referring to the news that the FBI raided the home and office of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen,…
Pompeo asks Clinton for advice as he preps for confirmation battle By Nahal Toosi POLITICO April 10, 2018 As a sharply partisan Republican member of Congress, CIA Director Mike Pompeo tormented former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her response to the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, which Pompeo called “morally reprehensible.” He also once liked a tweet that branded her successor, John Kerry, a “traitor.” But now that Pompeo faces a tough confirmation process to become secretary of state himself, he has reached out to Clinton and Kerry, as well as every other living occupant of…
President Trump’s Wild Response to the F.B.I. Raid on Michael Cohen’s Office By Amy Davidson Sorkin The New Yorker April 10, 2018 On Monday, President Donald Trump learned that F.B.I. agents had raided an office and a hotel apartment that were the territory of Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer. Reportedly, the agents took away material that touched on aspects of the President’s own life—including a hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress and director whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. The raid made the President angry. It was, he said, “a whole new level of unfairness.”…
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It ‘Disgraceful’ By Matt Apuzzo New York Times April 9, 2018 The F.B.I. raided the office and hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Monday, seizing business records, emails and documents related to several topics, including payments to a pornographic film actress. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating Mr. Cohen for possible bank fraud, and the documents identified in the warrant date back years, according to a person briefed on the search. Continue Reading…..
Judge again denies bail for Manafort By Josh Gerstein POLITICO April 9, 2018 A judge handling one of the criminal cases against Paul Manafort has again denied bail to the former Trump campaign chairman, but this time the court gave Manafort what could amount to a financial road map to securing his release. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in an order Monday that Manafort had again fallen short in the latest of several attempts to assemble money, property and pledges to meet the $10 million bail amount she set in the money-laundering and unregistered foreign…
Time for Mueller to lay it all out By Michael Goodwin New York Post April 8, 2018 Washington is full of blather, bombast and bullsh-t, but a line about Robert Mueller was the most important thing spoken or written there last week: “Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, declined to comment.” Since Mueller’s office never says anything outside court publicly, who knew he had a spokesman or needed one? Continue Reading…..
Trump slams DOJ, FBI over missed document deadline: ‘What is going on?’ By Adam Shaw Fox News April 7, 2018 President Trump on Saturday slammed the Justice Department for failing to meet a deadline to turn over documents related to the FBI’s decisions in the Hillary Clinton email probe, alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the recommendation to fire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. “Slow walking – what is going on? BAD!” Trump tweeted. Continue Reading…..
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Paul Manafort accuses federal prosecutors of illegal property search By Katelyn Polantz CNN April 7, 2018 Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has accused federal prosecutors of carrying out an illegal search of his property, according to a court filing late Friday night. Manafort asked the judge overseeing his case in DC to suppress evidence FBI agents collected from his Alexandria, Virginia, storage unit last May, which was only 10 days after Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to look into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Continue Reading…..