President Trump lashed out Tuesday at prosecutors for the raid of his longtime personal attorney’s Manhattan office, home and hotel room, claiming it signals an end to attorney-client privilege.
“Attorney — client privilege is dead!” the president said on Twitter.
Moments later, he fired off another brief early morning tweet: “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!”
On Monday, FBI agents seized records of attorney Michael Cohen’s clients and personal finances. Among the records taken were those related to a 2016 payment Cohen made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The raids were part of an investigation referred by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to federal prosecutors in New York. Cohen is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, three people with knowledge of the case have told The Washington Post.
Search warrants for law offices are rare because of concerns about privileged materials, legal experts say. To serve a search warrant on a practicing attorney, federal prosecutors are required to obtain approval from top Justice Department officials.
Trump’s tweets echoed comments he made Monday night to reporters at a dinner with military leaders. At the dinner, he repeatedly called the raid “a disgrace” and said he had been the subject of a long witch hunt.
I don't know how much, if any, this is getting over there, but it's headlining over here. Something we feel deeply grateful to Bill Clinton for. His involvement was crucial, and he helped make the World a better place.
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Former US president Bill Clinton is due in Northern Ireland to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
A conference, featuring key players involved in the deal including ex-prime ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, is taking place in Belfast.
Former US Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the talks, is among the guests.
The agreement helped bring an end to 30 years of sectarian conflict, known as the Troubles.
It was ratified in a referendum on both sides of the Irish border in May 1998 and set up a power-sharing assembly to govern Northern Ireland by cross-community consent.
I'll say. It goes beyond the lies and the corruption and the profiteering and the collusion. When you have a man in the White House who, while married, hired dozens of women to have sex with them and then who bribed them with hundreds of thousands of dollars to sign non-disclosure agreements promising they would never reveal that he likes them to wear merkins that are exact miniature copies of his hairdo.
That statement too is more of your usual horsepucky.
Horsepucky you cannot answer.
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coldjoint
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Tue 10 Apr, 2018 09:23 am
@blatham,
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Things have gotten so serious
From Obama's inaction and support of Iran. Obama was, and is, a sorry son of a bitch and the country continues to suffer by his and his administrations design.
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oralloy
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Tue 10 Apr, 2018 09:44 am
@MontereyJack,
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That statement too is more of your usual horsepucky.
You have a big mouth for someone who can never find any errors in anything I say.
I expect this caught everyone's attention yesterday...
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SANDERS: Certainly, the president still strongly feels that there was a large amount of voter fraud, and attempted to do a thorough review of it.
This struck me as interesting for a couple of reasons. First, note that the president's chief spokesperson didn't say there was a large amount of voter fraud; she said Trump "feels" there was a large amount of voter fraud. It's as if the White House press secretary didn't want to be directly associated with peddling nonsense, so Sanders was more comfortable attributing the absurd claim to her boss.
Second, since when do the president's "feelings" override evidence and demonstrable facts?
Links are provided in Waldman's piece for each charge levied below
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Making this more problematic, Trump isn’t someone who played close to the line a time or two, or once did a shady deal. He may well be the single most corrupt major business figure in the United States of America. He ran scams like Trump University to con struggling people out of their money. He lent his name to pyramid schemes. He bankrupted casinos and still somehow made millions while others were left holding the bag. He refused to pay vendors. He exploited foreign workers. He used illegal labor. He discriminated against African-American renters. He violated antitrust laws. He did business with the mob and with Eastern European kleptocrats. His properties became the go-to vehicle for Russian oligarchs and mobsters to launder their money.
Just so you know... Steve Benen notes this detail from Wisconsin
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In the Republicans' Senate primary in Wisconsin, Kevin Nicholson has benefited from generous support from Illinois-based billionaire Dick Uihlein. Now, one of Nicholson's rivals, state Sen. Leah Vukmir, is hitting the airwaves thanks to support from billionaire businesswoman Diane Hendricks.
If Diane Hendricks' name seems familiar, it's likely because she was the big-money Scott Walker donor in this famous encounter - "divide and conquer"
Check her out on wikipedia and you'll see how tightly connected she is to the Koch operation.
As to choices of donors, not that important as the other donor here is also.
Second, since when do the president's "feelings" override evidence and demonstrable facts?
The President feels strongly that North Korea is about to launch a nuclear attack against America.
If this is how Trump feels, then we are in trouble. As shown from some of his previous actions and behaviors, his gut feelings are a big part of how he (at least tries and sometimes does) proceed. Evidence and facts matter not to him.
