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one possibility is that Mueller discovered evidence of Cohen-related wrongdoing separate from the Russia scandal — for instance, campaign finance law violations in connection with the Stormy Daniels payment — but decided to hand that investigation off to others in the Justice Department rather than pursuing it himself.

Since the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Cohen’s hush money payment to Daniels in January, there have been questions about whether the payment violated campaign finance law. Made in the final weeks of a presidential campaign, the payment seems motivated to help out Trump’s election — but it’s far above the maximum that one individual can legally donate. If the money was in fact from Trump himself, that would raise questions of why it wasn’t appropriately disclosed.

Questions have also arisen about whether other women were paid hush money. “What did we have, a hundred women?” Steve Bannon, Trump’s campaign CEO for the final months, later bragged to author Michael Wolff. He said another attorney for Trump, Marc Kasowitz, “took care of all of them.”

In any case, we don’t yet know exactly why Cohen is under such legal scrutiny (Apuzzo writes that “the payments to Ms. Clifford are only one of many topics being investigated,” per a source). Still, the fact that this is being handled by a US Attorney’s office rather than Mueller does seem noteworthy. It suggests that if Trump would want to shut this investigation down, he can’t do so by firing Mueller — and that his efforts to coopt the Justice Department have been unsuccessful for the time being.

Questions have also arisen about whether other women were paid hush money. “What did we have, a hundred women?” Steve Bannon, Trump’s campaign CEO for the final months, later bragged to author Michael Wolff.

BUT, if he used campaign funds, thats a crime.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-09/fbi-raids-office-of-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-in-mueller-probe

The FBI raided the office of President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who has been a key figure in legal matters including the investigations into Russian election meddling and a payment to an adult film actress.

A "technicality" is what they got Clinton on.

Has anyone but me noticed how this woman made the slick transition from 'porn star' to 'adult film actress'?

After FBI Raids Cohen’s Office, Trump Calls Probe An ‘Attack On Our Country’

President Donald Trump on Monday responded to the FBI raids on his personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s office, home and hotel room, calling the raids “disgraceful.”

“So I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, a good man, and it’s a disgraceful situation,”

“I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now,” Trump said, adding: “It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.”

An email that suggests Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally signed off on a controversial pay raise for a favored aide last month is roiling the agency.

In the last few days, top staffers became aware of an email exchange between one of two aides who received such a raise and the agency’s human resources division. In mid-March, Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to the administrator, wrote to HR in an attempt to confirm that her pay raise of $56,765 was being processed. Greenwalt “definitively stated that Pruitt approves and was supportive of her getting a raise,” according to an administration official who has seen the email chain.

A second administration official confirmed the exchange.

A high-ranking official at the Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation has repeatedly shared conspiracy theories on his personal Facebook page, a review by TPM found, including posts calling the students who survived the Parkland school shooting “Nazis” and alleging the massacre was a staged false flag.

(So whatya mean they didnt get him??) COngress failed to find him guilty

COngress failed to find him guilty because of its precedent setting potential.

I think Plump will probably no doubt, get the same deal because the dems owe one.Unless, of course, the money thing fails to get covered up enough then we may see him found guilty on charges.