Russia Collusion Scandal (aka A Leftist fantasy)
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Runnin
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The upshot: The Cohen raid isn’t a “fishing expedition,” and didn’t happen because Mueller suspected he might find something interesting, despite how Trump himself and his defenders would like to characterize it as a case of a special prosecutor out of control.
“A judge has found probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime is housed in the office of Michael Cohen,” McQuade told me. “They may have a goal of flipping him, but there’s also evidence of a crime here.”
McQuade also stressed that Mueller didn’t raid Cohen’s office. Instead, it was conducted by the Southern District of New York. “They would have drafted the warrant, supervised the agent affidavit, presented it to the judge, and supervised the execution of it,” McQuade said. “So the idea that Mueller raided Cohen is wrong.”
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And they did all that without one whit of it leaking to the press.
“A judge has found probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime is housed in the office of Michael Cohen,” McQuade told me. “They may have a goal of flipping him, but there’s also evidence of a crime here.”
McQuade also stressed that Mueller didn’t raid Cohen’s office. Instead, it was conducted by the Southern District of New York. “They would have drafted the warrant, supervised the agent affidavit, presented it to the judge, and supervised the execution of it,” McQuade said. “So the idea that Mueller raided Cohen is wrong.”
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And they did all that without one whit of it leaking to the press.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
how would anyone know this
You have assumed so much with this collusion nonsense theory and this obvious point you don't see.
Come on man...
Runnin
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Dirt on Trump is everywhere and I think they care about anyone who lies to them.
Mueller is far too cagey to send agents in there who didn't know exactly what they were looking for and exactly where it was.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
do you have any proof
Let's see how fast they give Cohen a plea deal to a lessor charge
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
so no proof?
I'm going with the FBI approach right now
Runnin
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“There is no way—no sliver of a chance of a way—that the SDNY”—the Southern District of New York—“went to a magistrate for a search warrant against the lawyer for the President of the United States without much more than probable cause,” Benjamin Wittes, the editor of the Lawfare blog, wrote on Twitter. He went on, “You can thus assume there was A LOT of evidence in that warrant application. You can also assume the magistrate in question reviewed it carefully.”
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
I'm guessing it is not Russian collusion related...if it was it would have stayed with Mueller...but I agree that there must have been compelling reasons to get the search warrants
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
WaPo cited bank fraud, wire fraud, campaign finance violations.
The Stormy Daniels affair alone could satisfy all three of those, since he apparently used his home equity line to pay Stormy. There's some talk that he may have steered some foreign money into the campaign. Like his boss/client, though, I imagine we'll eventually get around to
We can assume many things - but the bar is probable cause.
There's just a wee bit of pumping going 'round, which is par for the course, but usually settles into substantially less.
