Anonymous
Post 04/17/2018 00:37     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2018 00:34     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Mueller alone is smarter than Trump's entire legal team.

Mueller smartly handed off the Cohen investigation to the SDNY, because it places it in the hands of people who don’t work for him. Let’s say Trump wakes up in a bad mood tomorrow and decides he’s going to try to fire Mueller after all. Even if Trump succeeded in firing him, which would be a long shot to begin with, it wouldn’t stop anything that’s playing out in that courtroom. Is Trump also going to fire the U.S. Attorney for SDNY? He just appointed the guy recently. Even if he did, the Deputy U.S. Attorney would inherit the case, and he’s the one who signed off on the raid in the first place. Trump would have to fire him too.

It’s bad enough for Donald Trump that he might have to fire half the Department of Justice just to find an Acting Attorney General willing to fire Robert Mueller. Now he’d also have to fire a bunch of people at the U.S. Attorney’s office in SDNY. Mueller has spread out the investigation to the point that Trump can’t come close to shutting it down simply by getting rid of any one person.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2018 00:27     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Another loss for Trump and co.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/michael-cohen-court-hearing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

A federal judge in Manhattan indicated on Monday that she was not prepared to grant President Trump exclusive first access to documents seized in F.B.I. raids on the office of his personal lawyer, and said that she was considering appointing an independent lawyer to assist in reviewing the seized materials.

Feeling her way toward a resolution of the high-stakes clash involving Mr. Trump and the federal prosecutors investigating the lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, the judge, Kimba M. Wood, did not grant Mr. Trump’s request to review the trove of materials ahead of prosecutors. But she also decided that prosecutors would not immediately have access to the materials and that Mr. Trump would ultimately receive copies of the documents that pertain to him.

The courtroom battle over what to do with the seized material came one week after federal agents, in an extraordinary move, descended on Mr. Cohen’s properties and walked away with 10 boxes of documents and as many as a dozen electronic devices, including cellphones and computer hard drives.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2018 00:14     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So Trumpkins believe they should have the right to pick and choose federal judges?


Pretty sure Trump’s own sister would have ruled against Cohen today.


LOL. Trump tried to take health insurance away from his baby nephew over an inheritance dispute so you know he would have no qualms about attacking his sister.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2018 00:10     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2018 00:09     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:So Trumpkins believe they should have the right to pick and choose federal judges?


Pretty sure Trump’s own sister would have ruled against Cohen today.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:58     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Trump Rule: The longer you stay in Trump’s orbit, the dirtier you become. Cohen has been around Trump for 20 years.


ETTD.


To quote Stormy's wise lawyer Avenatti: Cohen is "radioactive," and "anybody associated with him in the last 20 to 30 years should be very, very concerned," Avenatti said.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:53     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:So Trumpkins believe they should have the right to pick and choose federal judges?


Apparently a federal judge appointed by Reagan isn't good enough for them.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:53     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:The Trump Rule: The longer you stay in Trump’s orbit, the dirtier you become. Cohen has been around Trump for 20 years.


ETTD.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:48     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Remember last January when Assange thought he was IM'ing Hannity? Maybe Cohen is the messaging go between from Assange/Hannity to Trump. Mobsters in movies use lawyers in similar ways. Could Cohen/Trump be this stupid? Don't answer yet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-assange-twitter-sean-hannity-fake-account-democrat-trump-russia-links-mark-warner-senate-a8185496.html


+1


tick tick tick


Drip. Drip. Drip. Getting pretty expensive for the GOP to fight all these eruptions with no end in sight.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:38     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
The Trump Rule: The longer you stay in Trump’s orbit, the dirtier you become. Cohen has been around Trump for 20 years.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:35     Subject: Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
So Sean Hannity is asking for privacy now? His wife must be pretty pissed after finding out he was mystery client #3. And ole Sean got some splainin’ to do.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:32     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Remember last January when Assange thought he was IM'ing Hannity? Maybe Cohen is the messaging go between from Assange/Hannity to Trump. Mobsters in movies use lawyers in similar ways. Could Cohen/Trump be this stupid? Don't answer yet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-assange-twitter-sean-hannity-fake-account-democrat-trump-russia-links-mark-warner-senate-a8185496.html


+1


tick tick tick
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:30     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Consider for a moment that this whole hearing was so the Feds can look at Cohen's files and audio recordings. And they ALREADY KNEW Hannity is a client of Cohen. I have read reports that he's been under a legal wiretap and email tap for months.

Remember last January when Assange thought he was IM'ing Hannity? Maybe Cohen is the messaging go between from Assange/Hannity to Trump. Mobsters in movies use lawyers in similar ways. Could Cohen/Trump be this stupid? Don't answer yet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-assange-twitter-sean-hannity-fake-account-democrat-trump-russia-links-mark-warner-senate-a8185496.html
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2018 23:30     Subject: Re:Michael Cohen and related issues Master Thread
Michael Cohen : law :: Sean Hannity : journalism :: Donald Trump : presidency.