[The Wrap] The FBI raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, and collected records on subjects including Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, the New York Times reported.
The raid Monday came after federal prosecutors in Manhattan got a search warrant after a referral from special counsel Robert S. Mueller, who is looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, among other issues. The Times said the search did not appear to be directly related to Mueller’s investigation, but likely resulted from information he found and shared with the New York prosecutors.
"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," Stephen Ryan, Cohen’s lawyer, told The Times. "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."
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They know they can't get rid of him in 2020, so they are going for everything possible with a bet the demoncrats get both houses of congress back in 2018. Impeachment is their game plan and things will magically be leaked (real or not) during the October surprises to make sure they get congress.
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FEC violation is the PC as I understand it. Far afield from Russia, and sure not looking at the CLinton side of payoffs, but this is in indictment looking for a crime....
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After Trump fires Mueller, every on his team, an Rothstein he should do multi-billion dollar civil law suits against them, Hillary, and all supporters.
[Wash Times] The Department of Justice has tapped John Lausch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to oversee the process of turning over subpoenaed documents to congressional committees.
In November, two House committees had requested documents detailing the FBI’s actions surrounding investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign. That includes the probe into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant for Trump campaign aide Carter Page and last month’s firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
The Justice Department stalled in handing over the documents, a delay they blame on the sheer volume of documents and number of redactions.
Lawmakers grew frustrated, eventually issuing a subpoena to speed up document production.
Last Thursday at noon was the deadline to hand over 1.2 million documents, but the Justice Department had only given legislators about 3,000 pages.
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How about they just give them to oversight committee unredacted? Let Congressional oversight committees do their mandated jobs. IMHO most of the redactions are CYA redactions and not national security redactions.
Die already, you POS
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has made it pretty clear that he's no fan of President Trump; he delivered a whole speech that attacked Trump's worldview and seemed to knock Trump for receiving Vietnam deferments for bone spurs. But McCain's comments about Trump on Sunday might be his most severe to date.
In a statement Sunday afternoon, McCain indirectly blamed Trump for the chemical weapons attack in Syria, suggesting Trump's recent comments about leaving Syria "very soon" and his non-interventionist approach have "emboldened" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"President Trump last week signaled to the world that the United States would prematurely withdraw from Syria," McCain said. "Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have heard him, and emboldened by American inaction, Assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent men, women and children, this time in Douma."
Wow. The comments came on an otherwise pretty politics-free weekend, but the severity of what McCain said shouldn't escape anyone's notice. He's a loser and a warlover
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He's a loser and a warlover
A compensatory facade to compensate for his own imagined self-recriminations.
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"The USsssssch ssssschould have bombed Ssssschyria ssssschooner and ssssschupplied more weaponssssch to the Isssschlamuc killerssssch our friendssssch."
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Its really time for the Arizona state to declare him mentally incompetent.
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♫Ding-a-ling♫ You only have to say "The Russians like it..." and McCain starts slobbering like Pavlov's Dog. The man is positively deranged on the subject...
Lots of people think that, and Senator Cruz is pleased to be thought so by many of them. Something about being known by the enemies one makes...
[FreeBeacon] Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D., Texas) said in a new interview that only "publicly" he doesn't believe Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is an "asshole."
Being one is not a requirement for Senatorial Office? You could have fooled me.
O'Rourke agreed with HBO's Bill Maher in March after the comedian referred to Cruz by the crude term.
"Don’t forget, he’s a giant asshole," Maher said.
"That’s true," O'Rouke said.
However, during a meeting with New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, O'Rourke danced around on his opinion of Cruz.
O'Rourke initially told Bruni he regretted agreeing with Maher.
"I think I was just moving the conversation along," O'Rourke said. "Anyhow, I don’t think that Ted Cruz is an asshole."
"You don't?" Bruni asked.
"I certainly don’t think that publicly," O'Rouke said.
Cruz is seeking a second term against the well-funded O'Rourke, who raised $6.7 million in the first quarter of 2018 and has stoked hopes of Democrats winning a statewide race in Texas for the first time since 1994.
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Mistake in the cited article: The analysis doesn’t consider how much workers pay in Social Security and Medicare taxes, which are taken out of all paychecks This clearly implies everyone's paycheck is affected the same way by these 2 taxes. But this is not so, the taxes are capped and the bigger paychecks pay a smaller fraction.
Yates and Comey's statement to FISA contains words which they had to have known were inexact and untrue.
...By October 21, 2016, both surely knew Glenn Simpson aka "identified U.S. Person" was a paid Clinton Campaign/Democrat Committee agent. So, to aver to the FISA court in writing that the FBI only "speculated" that it was only a "likely" that there was a political motive of Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS was objectively and grossly knowingly a doubly false statement to the FISA court.
The key is for the Trump defense to offensively use that sentence to destroy the entire Mueller investigation legally by asserting the October 21, FISA application was based on that perjurious sentence, and therefore the entire Mueller investigation is based on fruit of the poisonous tree of the perjured October 21, 2016 application.
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Trump claims to be a counter-puncher. At some point he needs to go for the jugular and end this charade.
And yet, a great deal has been revealed in the course of Mueller's witch hunt. After all, many deep-staters were discovered. The witch behind things was discovered. Now they need to set her broom on fire along with her (figuratively speaking) and get to the bottom of things. There is a need for some prosecutions of some scoundrels. The country was damn near lost to these people. As Gerald Celente said in a piece at 0-hedge: "Murderers & Thieves Sold Out America"
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Here is my problem with all of this. The dam is leaking and about to give way. The bulldozers are at the site and everyone is arguing about who's fault it is and not fixing it. The Russians screwed with our election, just like we do with theirs. OK son now our political leaders are looking for someone to blame, other than the Russians. It has become so political that we will never identify the methods and process of the soviets and how to counter them. American leader are so wrapped in their political protectionism that they will let this happen yet again.
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