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Old 04-12-2018, 07:56 PM
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The FBI May Have Tapes Cohen Recorded

President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office and residences this week.

Cohen, who served for a decade as a lawyer at the Trump Organization and is a close confidant of Trump, was known to store the conversations using digital files and then replay them for colleagues, according to people who have interacted with him.

“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” said one Trump adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. “Now we are wondering, who did he tape? Did he store those someplace where they were actually seized? . . . Did they find his recordings?”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...800_story.html

The Dotard must be freaking the phuck out.
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Old 04-12-2018, 08:13 PM
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Please, please, please, let there be tapes.
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Old 04-12-2018, 08:18 PM
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Please, please, please, let there be tapes.
It would be karma after Trump threatened Comey, tweeting that he had tapes of their "loyalty" conversation.
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Old 04-10-2018, 09:01 AM
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Any “analysis” from Whell would be laughable. Here’s what The Atlantic has to say. Cohen is in deep doo-doo.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...rouble/557606/
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Old 04-10-2018, 09:11 AM
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Any “analysis” from Whell would be laughable. Here’s what The Atlantic has to say. Cohen is in deep doo-doo.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...rouble/557606/
His analysis is completely predictable. What about Hillary? I starting to believe that Whell is not trying to convince us of the probity of the Trump crime family. He's trying to convince himself as he still can't wrap his head around the fact that he was completely conned by such an obvious grifter.
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His analysis is completely predictable. What about Hillary?
WTF. That's EXACTLY what the left and their friends in the media wanted to do with this subject in 2016:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b01ba68ac35072

The information became public on Tuesday, with the publication of the Trump Foundation’s 2015 tax documents. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation gave $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in fall 2015 ― the only time it did so, according to Thomas Weihe, head of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s board.

Pinchuk, a billionaire steel magnate who is a former member of Ukraine’s parliament and son-in-law of a former Ukrainian president, has donated far more generously to Clinton’s foundation, with gifts of $10 and $25 million. According to The New York Times, Pinchuk let the Clintons borrow his private plane, attended former President Bill Clinton’s birthday party in 2011, and met with State Department officials several times while Hillary Clinton ran the agency.


Mueller and company have their nickers in a knot about $150,000. But this same guy gave the Clintons millions.
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Old 04-10-2018, 01:33 PM
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WTF. That's EXACTLY what the left and their friends in the media wanted to do with this subject in 2016:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b01ba68ac35072

The information became public on Tuesday, with the publication of the Trump Foundation’s 2015 tax documents. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation gave $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in fall 2015 ― the only time it did so, according to Thomas Weihe, head of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s board.

Pinchuk, a billionaire steel magnate who is a former member of Ukraine’s parliament and son-in-law of a former Ukrainian president, has donated far more generously to Clinton’s foundation, with gifts of $10 and $25 million. According to The New York Times, Pinchuk let the Clintons borrow his private plane, attended former President Bill Clinton’s birthday party in 2011, and met with State Department officials several times while Hillary Clinton ran the agency.


Mueller and company have their nickers in a knot about $150,000. But this same guy gave the Clintons millions.
You just made my point.

During the campaign, the Trump Foundation received a $150,000 “donation” from a Ukrainian billionaire for a video appearance by Trump. Michael Cohen, unsurprisingly, “solicited the donation.” There are a host of problems here. If this is actually payment for services, it is income for Trump and should have been reported as such. If diverting the money to the foundation was an attempt to evade taxes or banking laws, federal laws may very well have been broken. Federal campaign finance laws may also have been violated if this was in essence a way to help Trump’s campaign. (Foreigners are prevented from donating to a campaign.)...

It makes Hillary Clinton (who at least removed herself from the Clinton Foundation operation and stopped giving paid speeches once she began running) look like a Girl Scout.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...als-for-trump/
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Here we go again with the bullshit zombie contention that the Clintons personally pocketed donations to their charitable foundation.

https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings...foundation/478

Stop lying Whell.
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Old 04-10-2018, 10:23 AM
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Any “analysis” from Whell would be laughable. Here’s what The Atlantic has to say. Cohen is in deep doo-doo.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...rouble/557606/
Serwer is a Mother Jones tool. Here's a slightly more balanced analysis:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...so-far-n864206

According to Department of Justice policy, an application for a search warrant of a lawyer's office such as this is so serious that it usually requires approval of either the U.S. Attorney for the district, or the Assistant Attorney General.

I'm betting Rosenstein had his hands on this one.
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Serwer is a Mother Jones tool. Here's a slightly more balanced analysis:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...so-far-n864206

According to Department of Justice policy, an application for a search warrant of a lawyer's office such as this is so serious that it usually requires approval of either the U.S. Attorney for the district, or the Assistant Attorney General.

I'm betting Rosenstein had his hands on this one.
That's Trump appointee Rod Rosenstein, just like the Trump-appointed US Attorney (and Trump campaign contributor) in Manhattan.

You and all the other wingnuts have these crazy conspiracy theories swirling around in your head, whereas Occam's Razor likely governs (i.e., the simplest explanation (Trump and Cohen are crooks) is likely true)).
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