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FBI Raids Office of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohn Possible Stormy Weather Ahead
By rmrd0000 on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:32pm |The FBI on Monday raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and seized emails, tax documents and records related to his payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels
The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained a search warrant after receiving a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, but the raid does not appear to be directly connected to Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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by rmrd0000 on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:33pm
Not adding url from my iPad
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:34pm
Hey rmrd, this is a longstanding bug. I don't know why it happens, and unfortunately, it's very difficult to debug. As a workaround, you can edit the news item and put the url back in. I've already done that for you in this case. Sorry that I don't have a better solution.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:40pm
Thx
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:44pm
If you switch to plain text you can move the / > marks fairly easy. Otherwise I mark up a word in Url, then type into it.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:51pm
What does the markup have to do with the missing url?
by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 10:02am
A different bug - I can no longer select multiple words to pin a URL to, so have to highlight 1 word, add the URL, & then type the rest of the words to including in the link - or switch it usng the raw html
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 6:40pm
That's so annoying!
Works for me. What platform are you on?
by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 7:14pm
Android - used to work fine. Broke maybe 4-5 months ago? (can't be precise, could have been a year...)
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 7:21pm
Most likely a CKEditor issue. I have the latest installed.
by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 10:10pm
This "most instances" thing, quoting from the NYTimes link, this is not a minor thing,to say the least. As in, no kidding:
In most instances, it would be pretty outrageous. But then he's acted outrageously, suggesting along the lines of doing stuff on his own on behalf of his client without his client's approval.
Looks like they will be developing the article, surely with more on that. As will many others.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 6:27pm
Let's just say you've been working on a case against the president for a year with 17 lead attorneys, and you *think* you've got justification to do a raid on his lawyer, a move that would *normally* get your case thrown out and might guve your suspect grounds to sue...
PS - raid carried out by Southern Distruct of New York, not Mueller's group, so firing Mueller wouldn't put genii back in the bottle.
PPS - this isn't about Stormy
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 6:53pm
As we´ve learned during the evening such raids are carried out by two teams .
There´s danger of course that the local investigators -from "team A " - might stumble upon ¨privileged" information .As Trump has already suggested .And If Mullers team B people do see such information their case could be destroyed.
To protect against such contamination those local team A investigators censor the information before providing it to Mullers´ team B.
by Flavius on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 10:57pm
Who needs legal analysts when you've got Flavius' wisdom around?
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 11:45pm
AKA an oxymoron.
by Flavius on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 12:31am
$150K Ukraine payoff in campaign via Trump Organization - for 20 minute video speech. That rivals the going rate for Hillary's famed speeches (when *NOT* running for office), no? And didn't even have to leave his bed.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 12:56am
IT'S an FBI attack on the troops!! No collusion! Where's My Wall! @RealDonaldTrump
by NCD on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 7:47pm
So far it certainly is fuel for the deep-state conspiracists, i.e. FBI & New York liberal U.S. attorneys & Mueller = jackbooted thugs plotting a coup. Where's Soros?Does a wall protect against Soros? Are they coming for the guns next?
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 8:43pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 8:10pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 8:20pm
IT'S AN ATTACK ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION!!!
by NCD on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 9:30pm
Lotsa new content on topic @ WaPo:
Trump’s attorney under investigation for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations
FBI agents raided Cohen’s Manhattan office, home and hotel room, seizing records about his clients, including those related to a 2016 payment he made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
Analysis: FBI had to clear a higher-than-normal bar for raid
‘A bomb on Trump’s front porch’: Cohen raids hit home
The seizure of communications between President Trump and his private lawyer — the keeper of his secrets, from his business deals to his personal affairs — is an extraordinary move that opens a new front in the administration’s legal battles.
The Fix: Trump’s tirade after the Michael Cohen raids, annotated
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 11:58pm
See Cohen in paragraph 3:
Mueller Investigating Ukrainian’s $150,000 Payment for a Trump Appearance
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMAN @ NYTimes.com, APRIL 9, 8:42 PM ET
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 12:46am
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 1:52am
Organization, Foundation, Cohen, Trump personally, some handful of Delaware LLCs... - follow the bags of moolah.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 1:58am
Good point from Michael D. Shears' Analysis of Trump's public comments Monday, @ NYTimes.com
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 1:59am
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 8:05pm
If Wittes has the correct view of the search warrant, there is a possibility that the crime being investigated may not have anything to do with anything we know about.
Crime is free like that. If one commits a crime in the morning with one group of fellows in the morning it doesn't mean you cannot go out and do your own thing in the afternoon.
by moat on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 8:22pm
There's a song in that last sentence somewhere ...
by barefooted on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 8:37pm
Size of retainer
to muzzle entertainers
does not pay my bills.
I cannot stop all the broads
without multiple bank frauds.
by moat on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 6:50pm
Also, just intuiting things from Bharara tweets but it does seem to me that Bharara seems too excited about the whole thing for it just to be about Stormy and Karen payoffs.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 8:48pm
It's a Presidential diving board - you have to climb the ladder before diving off.
by barefooted on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 9:06pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 8:15pm
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 8:51pm
Everyone Trump has fired he stated clearly he was not firing them several times before he fired him. So maybe you believe him when he clearly states something but I think he lies about everything.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 10:22pm
Interesting.
Why would the snowies expect His Donaldness to do anything they ask for. ? Aren't they more or less his opponents ? And vice versa ? (Reminds me of an old joke about some one who ....hmn, probably I'd better not finish that..)
Why would they care ? If in 40 weeks he's produced nothing wouldn' t that at best undermine the intensity of their concern about the exact classification of his beatification ?
And while I'm trying to do my best to make you feel you're properly appreciated do you think that just maybe the better way to win friends and influence Dagblogers is to eschew categorizing what Mueller 's up to as a
Sort of a pre "Metoo" turn of phrase, don't you think.
Cheers.
by Flavius on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 11:50pm
He is parroting the words of Ann Coulter.
Or perhaps the unverified Peter is Ann Coulter, using her own words.
The sisters are doing it for themselves.
by moat on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 10:28am
by Peter (not verified) on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 1:03am
Your writing skills are deteriorating - reminds me of HAL in 2001. "Guys, don't do that, guys..."
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 1:31am
Your reading comprehension is deteriorating more rapidly than peter's writing skills. If you don't realize that he's insulting us by calling us snowflakes and simpletons than you're a bigger idiot that he is. Simpleton is too high praise for your moderating skills, shitty is a more apt term. Every post by this right wing troll is nothing but name calling and insults to every person here. Insulting us is his only reason for coming here. From my point of view he should be informed that name calling and insults must stop or he will be banned. I'm fucking sick and tired of his shit and I'm fucking sick and tired of you.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 4:03pm
Think your valium drip is wearing off - may need to check your levels or see if tube's crimped.
BTW, if someone changes policy so commenters *have* to log in, then it's possible to do as you ask. Without that, blocking isn't an option, so it's simply delete or edit or insult - I've used #2 in the past especially to mark out the highly repetitive
Red Queen, and #3 pretty much continuously, and once an actual suspend that didn't seem much appreciated - oh well Of course the masses need some red meat or "circuses", not just bread, so like God, if Peter did not exist we'd probably be forced to invent him. Otherwise we end up with the rather unpalatable and mawkish "people sitting around and agreeing with each other". Presumably there's a more heightened level of intellectualism that makes that even desirable, but it's hard to maintain that peak - requiring an occasional punk turtle to break up the monotony.But you can call me a 'moderate moderator' without near the gusto and vigor that some would like. On the other hand, it seems to me we're down to a community of about 7, so before long I'll be moderating myself. Anyway, thanks for pointing out that "Snowflake" (or "Noflake") is an insult - I'd never noticed or commented on it before...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 4:24pm
You actually think I give a shit what you say on this subject. You have no credibility so I don't give a fuck. You truly are
a moron. "Thick as a brick"eta: I don't care what nonsense he posts. I'm just sick and tired of the constant insults. Generalizing them to include us all doesn't make it ok.
pss: You seem to be saying we should just accept name calling and insults because we're so few. He can make his points without them. If peter can't or won't stop the insults than that's clear evidence that he's here for just one thing.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 4:48pm
Well, I'll tell you what strikes me as moronic - someone who doesn't say anything to moderators about his unhappiness about name-calling, but one fine day launches into a name-calling diatribe about name-calling to a moderator. Try acting like this kind of prick at your local grocery store and see if the manager gives you any sympathy. Of course there you're at least providing some purchasing power to influence their good graces. Here it's all about your boyish charm, Arizona baked as it is.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:10pm
Nice reenactment, 'guys' ...
by barefooted on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 8:32pm
All right, I apologize. Just a few things. I think it's obvious that he's insulting us in every post. I didn't think I needed to state the obvious. But I did state the obvious. I've complained about these constant insults over and over again. But yeah, I didn't send you a private e-mail saying, "you know that last comment I posted complaining about name calling and insults, I actually really meant it."
That being said I got pushed over the edge, lost my temper and took it out on you. I'm sorry.
That being said I really am pissed to come here and be insulted in every single comment that troll posts. If the only thing he wants to do here is play Ann Coulter let him do it somewhere else.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 11:57pm
If you look at my past comments to Peter, you'll find many exceedingly harsh. But I get bored doing it that way over and over, so I posted some more ironic comments. No, I didn't miss that he's thriwing out insults as his MO. I'll consider more of the deletes and selectuve edits and other strategies, though possibly "Don't Feed The Animals will also help. Or even make commenters register - Facebook has to put on the big boy pants, maybe we do to.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 12:47am
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 1:13pm
I would suggest you start your posts with the Snowflake stuff, and would repectfully request you attempt to engage your audience rather than provoke. Everybody who's ever posted here thinks they're right and a ton of people wrong - it goes with the turf. But our level of intelligent debate about politics has some distinct lows, and it would simply be nice if we could up our game.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 2:11pm
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 10:41am
Really? And thus your "Red Queen" over and over? Didn't you notice extensive argument between the Hillary prog-centrists vs Bernie prog-leftists, while the Reoublicans lined up to invoke tax cuts, no abortionists on the courts, "lock her up" over an email server, and more tax cuts? Fiscal conservatism with some standards in Buckley's day has given way to an odd cult of personality, where relugious evangelists cheer on a multi-divircing cheater with porn starlets who spouts hateful violence towards foreigners with such gems as "shithole countries" and "rapists".
Instead of giving such unsubstantiated broadbrush generalities, please give some specifics and actual examples and evidence for your claims, or we just end up back at your "they're bad, we're (mostly) good" posturing, along with your continual slur expressions like "groupthink".
(If you can't clarify your own logic, I'll go ahead and clarify it for you - this *has* persisted long enough, as Oceankat rightly notes)
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 11:28am
And do note I watched a similar debate between Buckley and Chomsky, and thought Chomsky came across lightweight. But I'd bet MLK could have run circles around Buckley, and imagine RFK would have done better as well. Anyway, shows like Meet The Press have gotten dumbed down, but we have blogs like this yo make up for it, so let's use it properly - up your game.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 11:32am
You use snowflake to insult us. It's a term popularized by the provocateurs on the right to insult liberals. You get insulted in retaliation for constantly insulting people here. It's a poor solution to a problem. It degrades the dialog. I think that's what you want and that's why you provoke it by starting it with insults in every one of your posts. I don't want to be a moderator and no one here wants me to be one. If I were I would clearly inform that there will be no censorship of your arguments but insults are not allowed. Then I would delete every one of your posts that insult people. If you won't make your arguments without insulting us there is no place for you here, imo.
As usual with provocateurs who have as their sole purpose to insult they constantly escalate. So you've moved from "snowflake" to calling us "simpletons" and to personal insults by saying I am "thick as a brick." There was nothing even remotely insulting in my posts until you directly insulted me. Do not pretend you don't come here to insult us. Every one here sees through that lie.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 4:53pm
I hear the insults as a discursive tic, like people who can't say anything without saying "like" first or cannot use adjectives without preceding them with the word "fucking." There is also a formulaic quality to the repetition that reminds me of phrases such as "Imperialist Running Dogs." The insult is about framing his speech and has nothing to do with those being addressed as persons.
Add to that quality the fact that he (or she) is copying and pasting the words of a number of people without citing them. We are not hearing from a person who is capable of using ad hominem attacks but an algorithm being applied as needed by some set of rules. It is pretty weak beer compared to performers like Resistance.
When Nowflakes fall I remember this song:
by moat on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 9:06am
Same here, good description. For that reason I find it more interesting rather than irritating and even humorous sometimes, in a SNL character kinda way. It's curious, I never feel it as a personal insult as I feel he's not really addressing me and anyone reading can see that, because it's just too over the top. I certainly don't feel anger, it's like watching someone with Tourette's. But then I'm not someone who is a political team player. And if it's bothering others who are, I'd rather not see them lost as contributing members, because they are more valuable.
This is an exceptionally good point: There is also a formulaic quality to the repetition that reminds me of phrases such as "Imperialist Running Dogs." I am reminded of the Postmodernism Generator. The difference is that it's not total gobbledygook, underneath the rhetoric, often the comments are analytic of a situation, as "faux" as they may be.
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 10:45am
It is interesting that you hear something Dadaist in the rhetoric. To my ear, it is closer to the Bolsheviks explaining everything that is going on to satisfy themselves and gambling on who gets your possessions after you lose.
It is the language of war.
by moat on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 2:54pm
I realized that the above could benefit from some clarification.
The repetition I referred to is a marketing technique called "artificial familiarity" by some. The idea is to introduce terms and qualities that become part of the environment and accepted as such through them being heard frequently. What makes this message different from an invitation to squeeze Charmin is that the product being sold is represented as something being rejected by its would be market. The use of the technique in wartime is to sell a certain meaning and perspective of the conflict to the enemy.
In the context of, say, Tokyo Rose, there was an actual war with real soldiers who were being addressed. In this case, none of the many conflicts bear any resemblance to the one being marketed. That disconnect is what gives it a PoMo generator quality. But the purpose of the algorithm is to degrade discourse as a tool of criticism, not persuade people to change their minds.
As Roland Barthes said: "there is no longer any delay between naming and judging."
by moat on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 4:01pm
I'm not like that, maybe I wish I was, but I'm a fighter. I always have been. I'm a little guy, just 5' 4" and skinny but I've always been the one to stand up for the little guy or girl. I was always the one who would confront the person in the work place who made the sexist or racist jokes. I've had this attitude that I was beat up so much in jr. high school that I just didn't give a shit anymore. I've embraced from a young age the cliche that all it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing and I was determined I would never be silent. When I or what I believe in is attacked I don't just defend, I go on the offense.
There are several reasons for this but one powerful reason was a realization I had as a young teen. My paternal grandmother was Jewish. She married a Catholic man. Neither were very serious adherents to their religion so when they couldn't agree on what religion to give their son they gave him neither. He became a Lutheran when he married my mother. I was raised Lutheran and we never really talked about my Jewish grandmother's religion. We didn't avoid it, it just wasn't important enough to discuss. I'm not "Jewish" in any way. I never experienced any anti-semitism. At a certain point I had learned enough, studied enough, read enough to come to the realization that I would likely have thought of myself as a good German Lutheran but the Nazis would have come and picked me up. The Holocaust wasn't just theoretical for me it was visceral. I was already on a liberal path but that experience gave me an added push to always stand up to bigotry, sexism, and hatred. The determination that I would always stand up and speak up for what I believed.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 11:50pm
Ocean, I just wanted to chime in and say that I always enjoy your posts and usually learn from them. Peter is unworthy of any responses, IMOP, and I think it’s ok for him to write his drivel. It is only when we respond that he gets whatever it is that he is looking for.
At the old tpm, we used to respond to trolls with recipes. It’s not worth the bother to do that but I think ignoring him/her is best.
by CVille Dem on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:45am
If the charges are phony why have four people already pleaded guilty? As for those who have been charged, they'll get a trial and we'll eventually find out whether Mueller can prove their guilt.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 3:27am
by Peter (not verified) on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 10:03am
The initial charge will probably be obstruction
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/12/donald-trump-fire-rod-rosenstein-obstruct-robert-mueller-column/512769002/
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/13/endgame-mueller-may-wrap-obstruction-probe-early-chances-interview-trump-fade/
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 10:15am
Elaboration on that here:
Exclusive: Trump, Mueller teams prepare to move forward without presidential interview
Monday’s raid on Trump’s personal lawyer upended talks for the president to sit down with investigators.
By Carol E. Lee, Julia Ainsley, Kristen Welker and Hallie Jackson @ NBCNews.com, Updated Apr.12.2018 / 5:25 PM ET
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 11:24am
Peter and/or Ann, you should read the letter appointing the Special Counsel as you seem confused about what his mandate entails. Read the first listing and reflect upon how it negates your description.
by moat on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 11:53am
You are as dumb as a stone, peter. Whether a large or small crime they are not phony charges if someone pleads guilty. It's not a dumb mistake. A plea deal means it's likely more severe crimes occurred.
I was once a suspect in a crime. Not only did I not make the "dumb mistake" of lying to the police, I gave them permission to search my house for the stolen objects. I didn't insist they get a warrant. Innocent people act differently than guilty people. We're going to see people who are at least associated with Trump going to jail for very real crimes.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 1:04pm
Michael Cohen and the absolutely amazing history of the once-coveted New York City taxi medallion
By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Updated 4:18 PM ET, Tue April 1
Makes me wonder: where's Hal, heartfelt supporter of ye olde NYC Yellow Cab monopoly system against teh evil Uber monster?
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 10:43pm
Huh:
from
Stormy Daniels cooperating with federal investigators following Cohen raid
By Sophie Tatum and MJ Lee, CNN, Updated 9:56 PM ET, Tue April 10, 2018
with a headline which is being treated as big news on the teevee news, but I don't know why, I would expect that.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 11:05pm
The other raid - Fox UK. Related underneath?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 12:33am
NYT Editorial Board had enough of the grey lady thing, starting to rant:
The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump, April 10 @ NYTimes.com/Editorial
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 3:26am
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 3:34am
Hmmm, unrelated? Maggie Haberman of NYT has retweeted this this morning with this as her only comment:
>>>>>>
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 11:51am
Ezra Cohen-Watnick will be a welcome addition to
Benito Cereno'sJeff Session's management team.by moat on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 12:57pm
A new Republican group seeks to protect Mueller
Op-ed by Jennifer Rubin @ WashingtonPost.com, April 11
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 1:04pm
Republicans Tillis and Graham join forces in effort to protect special counsel Mueller
By Brian Murphy @ McClatchy.com,April 11
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 4:19pm
So not just Bannon, but others including Joe Di Genova and Roger Stone, say: fire Rosenstein:
Trump Discussed Firing Rosenstein as Allies Urge Confrontation
By Jennifer Jacobs, Joshua Green, and Shannon Pettypiece
April 11, 2018, 11:24 PM EDT @ Bloomberg.com
Former strategist Bannon wants president to quash Russia probe
President was infuriated by search of lawyer’s properties
Edit to add: Bannon says: fire Ty Cobb too. Stone alternate says: fire Sessions too. Genova says: have Sessions fire Rosenstein.
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/12/2018 - 1:57am
Let's just fire everyone. Sure. Evidence that 30mins after Access Hollywood broke Trump's team was releasing Wikileaks materials as damage control. Bet there are some good Cohen court records on that. Think Republican Congress is going to stuff that in the bottle? Not likely.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/12/2018 - 2:33am
And then there is the problem of confirming the replacements.
by moat on Thu, 04/12/2018 - 8:59pm
Not firing Bob Mueller nor Ty Cobb today is the only response so far.
This part have been fully advised throughout each phase of this process sounds to me like: for the umpteenth time: I heard ya, Ty, that if I don't do what you suggest, you are not liable for the result.
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/12/2018 - 6:35pm
GOP fractures over push to protect Russia probe
@TheHill.com- 04/12/18 06:41 PM EDT
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 11:41am
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 3:13pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 9:30pm
Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier
BY PETER STONE AND GREG GORDON @ McClatchydc.com, April 13, 6:08 pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 12:34am
Oh for God's sakes, he was in Rome, per tracked flights and passports per Buzzfeed and Louise Mensch a year ago, so could have taken charter flight, train or car, though here it sounds like by land, and trains are still slow, so someone probably just drove or overnight train through Munich (or maybe there's a preferred more anonymous airport in Germany somewhere for the charter/pruvate flights)
(Though it mightmake more sense fir this meeting to be mid- or late-August when Russian involvement was suddenly scandalous and Manafort resigned. Anyway, charters / Russian pruvate jets via the Bahamas and elsewhere are going all the time)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 12:52am
I am surprised at your reaction, I thought you'd be happy to see this. Because The Justice Department special counsel is not exactly the same as Louise Mensch, has power to effect things beyond electoral politics, and mentions evidence. And because up until this, all I was seeing was suggesting that Mueller's report of wrongdoing would focus on obstruction and have little to do with "collusion" with the Russians.
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 10:56am
Just frustrating to see the authoritative sites and such take much longer to wade through stuff than the ad hoc citizen journalists. Though in this case, the Jul 9-17 2016 visit to EU, out via Rome is not the same as Mueller's proposed August/September visit. But presumably this raid or some strong evidence actually shows Prague, rather than "Shengen region so could have been".
PS - Cohen now saying this was impossible, because he was in LA, but a year ago Mensch also posted a Cohen Tweet from Newark airport during the middle of the period Cohen was supposed to be in LA.
Anyway, yes, happy Cohen seems to be getting nailed to the wall. Question whether it was the raid that specifically did it, or if it was set off by Nikulin finally being interrogated in the US.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 12:13pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 1:37pm
As it has been reported as a leak from the investigation(s), "according to two sources familiar with the matter", the matter is not something likely to see the light of day in the immediate future unless a prosecutor charges somebody with something right away.
by moat on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 2:18pm