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

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The NYT story I posted above has been updated:

President Trump phoned his longtime confidant, Michael D. Cohen, to “check in” on Friday as lawyers for the two men went to court to block the Justice Department from reading seized documents related to Mr. Cohen’s decade of work for Mr. Trump, according to two people familiar with the call.

It is not clear what else they discussed in a call that came days after a series of F.B.I. raids. Depending on what was said, the call could be problematic for both men, as defense lawyers often advise their clients not to talk to each other during investigations. Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen still were trying to determine what exactly was seized.
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These guys have really big brains. Chalk up another obstruction count for Mueller.
 
Xystus said:
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JoshuaIsLord:
But since it was brought up, HRC did forward all emails to the DOJ before wiping them from the Server.
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no, she did not. she handed over what she and her legal team deemed relevant and deleted the remaining 30000 or some such amount of email.
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She printed them out, hard copy. I wonder how many trees she killed.
 
Political donations have to be reported and there are contribution limits.
 
So it’s been reported by a number of sources that the feds did indeed seize recordings. In the court hearing today the judge chastised Cohen’s lawyers for being unable to answer questions and for Cohen not being present; another hearing has been scheduled for Monday and Cohen’s been ordered to attend.

Where was Cohen during the hearing, you ask?

https://twitter.com/x/status/984892282863308801
 
AND they were on a private server located in a closet at home… NOT!!!
 
Ridgerunner said:
I know you want to think of this as a political contribution, but there is no particular reason to think so.
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How would you determine that it is not a political contribution? Certainly paying someone off to cover up an affair would be helping a candidate. Can we clearly say it is not a campaign contribution? I don’t think so.
 
Typically, people are not convicted of crimes in this country if they “might have” had criminal intent.
 
Clinton withheld almost 32,000 emails deemed to be of a personal nature.[28] Datto, Inc., which provided data backup service for Clinton’s email, agreed to give the FBI the hardware that stored the backups.[34]
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No record that this did not happen.
As of May 2016, no answer had been provided to the public as to whether 31,000 emails deleted by Hillary Clinton as personal have been or could be recovered
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FBI is not obligated to do so.

Hillary Clinton email controversy - Wikipedia

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March 27, 2015 – Rep. Trey Gowdy makes the statement, “Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.”
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Clinton’s lawyer responds in a letter that she “has maintained and preserved copies” of work-related or potentially work-related emails that were turned over to the State Department late in 2014. The lawyer, David Kendall, also stated that federal law governing record retention requires that each federal employee individually decide what emails must be preserved.

August 12, 2015 – One of Clinton’s lawyers confirms that the private server used to contain Clinton’s emails from 2009-13 was turned over to the Justice Department. The server was previously wiped of data, but FBI officials are confident that the data from it will be able to be recovered. Law enforcement officials suspect that the examination will take months.
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No record that the recovery was not successful. But the FBI is not obligated to either way.
 
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Typically, people are not convicted of crimes in this country if they “might have” had criminal intent.
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They’re typically based on evidence of criminal intent, for example Cohen’s emails the government had been monitoring for weeks or months before the raid.
 
The interesting thing. Because of the pending release of the Comey Book, Trump has been somewhat quiet on this matter. I speculate multi-tasking might be a challenge for him on twitter.
 
lmachine said:
Cohen’s emails the government had been monitoring for weeks or months before the raid.
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Really? I was not aware the government has been monitoring his emails for weeks or months. Did they have a warrant for that?
 
stinkcat_14 said:
In other words we cannot say that it is not a politcal donation.
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Or that it was. But I can think of more than one way this can be defended if that’s the allegation. Probably the reason why Mueller subinfeudated the US atty for SDNY to do the raid; to see if he can find some evidence of that or any other crime.
 
Michael Cohen seems to have a history of being involved with shady characters even before becoming Trump’s lawyer.

The US attorney’s office in NY is most likely investigating other crimes that have nothing to do with Trump.
 
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