F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen

[FORD]

[Nitro Express]

Ah just bomb Syria. That will distract everyone.

[private parts]

Maybe, but he's not president anymore. He had a history of womanizing, but does that make him worse than Trump? I've read about JFK. The biggest thing on him was the fact he was heavily medicated on opiods due to his Addison's disease and degenerative spine. Whether the press would have started digging on him in his second term is debatable but I think it was likely...

Until Trump gets caught getting laid in the White House, yes he is/was worse than Trump.

[private parts]

McCabe may go to jail.

Trump may go to jail one day too. But first he is going to save world from the Evil Kim!

[Nickdfresh]

Until Trump gets caught getting laid in the White House, yes he is/was worse than Trump.

Is getting laid some great fucking sin or something? FFS do you know what board you're on?

And Drumpf sure ain't getting laid in the White House!

[Nickdfresh]

McCabe may go to jail.

Trump may go to jail one day too. But first he is going to save world from the Evil Kim!

Trump can't save shit...

[FORD]

Is getting laid some great fucking sin or something? FFS do you know what board you're on?

And Drumpf sure ain't getting laid in the White House!

Certainly not by Malaria. Though who knows what might happen when Kelly Anne is on a meth binge.

[FORD]

McCabe may go to jail.

Trump may go to jail one day too. But first he is going to save world from the Evil Kim!

[FORD]

Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones

nbcnews.com
Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones
by Tom Winter and Julia Ainsley / May.03.2018 / 9:59 AM ET

Federal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for President Donald Trump who is under investigation for a payment he made to an adult film star who alleged she had an affair with Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.

It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but NBC News has learned it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohen's offices, hotel room, and home in early April, according to one person with direct knowledge.

At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, the person said.

Previously, federal prosecutors in New York have said in court filings that they have conducted covert searches on multiple e-mail accounts maintained by Cohen.

Spokespeople for the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI in New York declined comment.

After the raid, members of Trump's legal team advised the president not to speak to Cohen, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

Two sources close to Trump's newest attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, say he learned that days after the raid the president had made a call to Cohen, and told Trump never to call again out of concern the call was being recorded by prosecutors.

Giuliani told Fox News Wednesday night that Trump repaid Cohen the $130,000 he used to keep the adult film star, Stormy Daniels, from going public with allegations about her affair with Trump.

Giuliani is also described as having warned Trump that Cohen is likely to flip on him, something Trump pushed back on, telling Giuliani that he has known Cohen for years and expects him to be loyal, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the conversations.

Giuliani and a lawyer for Cohen, Steve Ryan, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The White House referred NBC News to outside counsel.
Image: Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani visit the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aug. 16, 2016.
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani visit the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aug. 16, 2016.Eric Thayer / Reuters

It is unclear what incriminating information Cohen could give prosecutors on Trump, if he chose to cooperate. He represented Trump and the Trump Organization in its business dealings for nearly two decades before Trump became president. Special counsel Robert Mueller is interested in any information that federal investigators in New York may pick up that would be relevant to his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Cohen has previously said publicly that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights if subpoenaed to avoid incriminating himself before a grand jury and there is no indication from public filings that Cohen is cooperating in the probe.

The Cohen investigation is being led by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and the FBI. Investigators are looking into the $130,000 transaction between Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels, also known as Stephanie Clifford, who allegedly had an affair with Trump more than a decade ago, and a reported payment of $150,000 from American Media Inc., publishers of the National Enquirer, to a second woman who allegedly had an affair with Trump, Playboy model Karen McDougal.

The White House has denied allegations of the affairs.

Investigators are also seeking information about the 2005"Access Hollywood" tape in which Donald Trump was heard making vulgar boasts about women.

The bureau's interest in the "Access Hollywood" tape, on which Trump bragged to host Billy Bush that he would grab women "by the p---y," was first reported by the New York Times. "Access Hollywood" is an NBC Universal television program.

Material seized from Cohen's office, hotel room and home included taped conversations, as well as cellphones and hard drives.

Cohen has asserted in court that much of the material gleaned in the raids should be protected from the eyes of prosecutors under attorney-client privilege.

[Seshmeister]

These people are just idiots.

It's like when the Bond villain stands there and explains his evil plan for no good reason. Gulianni in recent years seems to have dropped about 30 IQ points.

[Terry]

These people are just idiots.

It's like when the Bond villain stands there and explains his evil plan for no good reason. Gulianni in recent years seems to have dropped about 30 IQ points.

Giuliani has become quite a bit unhinged over the last decade, particularly since he realized he would never become president.

While he WAS the Mayor of New York City on September 11th, 2001, after the dust finally settled on that event people remembered that he hadn't been particularly well liked up to and including September 10th, 2001. A reputation well-earned by Hizzoner. Which isn't to say there aren't plenty of New Yorkers who thought overall Giuliani did a good job as mayor despite being a bit of an asshole: the two concepts aren't mutually exclusive in Giuliani's case.

Even sadder than Giuliani trying to parlay his "I was Mayor of New York City on 9/11" into some kind of foreign policy expertise was watching Giuliani hitching his wagon to Trump in 2015. Like Newt Gingrich, I suppose Giuliani thought doing so would be his last real chance at being a player in a presidential administration (one didn't see 2016 GOP hopefuls such as Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio calling upon either Giuliani or Gingrich for advice had they prevailed, and neither Newt or Rudy are spring chickens anymore) if Trump won.

And who knows? Giuliani could well end up being in the Cabinet or heading up the DOJ (or the FBI), given the turnover experienced under Trump. I don't see where Giuliani negotiating on behalf of Trump with Mueller is going to be helpful, though, in terms of Mueller giving Giuliani any concessions any of Trump's other lawyers couldn't have obtained. In point of fact, because Giuliani still craves the spotlight - and is also very rusty in terms of actually practicing law - I could see Giuliani being less helpful in the respect that [Giuliani] isn't looked upon as a distinguished or serious minded when it comes to the law. He's just a public showpiece, publicly telling the media what Trump thinks Mueller should and shouldn't do and little more than that. Doubtless Mueller will politely do Giuliani the courtesy of listening to what he has to say, but I doubt Mueller is now shitting his pants because Rudy is on Trump's legal team.

[Nitro Express]

Actually Rudy has been unhinged for quite a while.

[Nitro Express]

These people are just idiots.

It's like when the Bond villain stands there and explains his evil plan for no good reason. Gulianni in recent years seems to have dropped about 30 IQ points.

It's the swamp gas.

[Seshmeister]

In point of fact, because Giuliani still craves the spotlight - and is also very rusty in terms of actually practicing law - I could see Giuliani being less helpful in the respect that [Giuliani] isn't looked upon as a distinguished or serious minded when it comes to the law. He's just a public showpiece, publicly telling the media what Trump thinks Mueller should and shouldn't do and little more than that. Doubtless Mueller will politely do Giuliani the courtesy of listening to what he has to say, but I doubt Mueller is now shitting his pants because Rudy is on Trump's legal team.

I guess we just overthink a lot of this stuff. He's just an old man that wants to still be in the game before he dies.

The thing that is particularly bad with Guiliani is he must know who Trump is very well from NYC.

New York clearly knows who he is, the 'elites' and the average people. New York voted 2-1 against their own local boy and that was verses Hillary, imagine how few it would have been if it was anyone else on the Democrat site?

The rest of America should really have noticed that hometown where the guy had a super high profile for over 40 years knew he was a dumb snake oil salesman who lost the majority of an inheritance his sociopathic parents had scammed out the government.

[Nitro Express]

Exactly. Giuliani has just gotten old and people's minds aren't as sharp as they were. Plus he was treated for cancer and who knows what that does to you. But if you don't like Trump it's a good thing because Giuliani isn't helping the president. I'm frankly tired of the soap opera. What happens happens. I have no affect on it so I can just go sit in the corner and masturbate. That's more thrilling and productive than following what goes on in the swamp.