BREAKING: FBI raids office of President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, his lawyer says.
Watch @DeadlineWH for live coverage. pic.twitter.com/YRtsyz3D6k
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 9, 2018
Vanity Fair is reporting that the FBI raided Michael Cohen's hotel room at the Loews Regency in New York.
"A handful of them remained upstairs for several hours, according to a source familiar with the situation."https://t.co/nWEW0fFNUN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 9, 2018
JUST IN: President Trump has been watching TV reports of the FBI raiding the office of Michael Cohen, his longtime lawyer and confidant, a White House official tells @jeffzeleny https://t.co/flG4uDokat pic.twitter.com/TPwNYy3JRe
— CNN (@CNN) April 9, 2018
Fox now blaming news of the FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office for "almost 400 points erased from what was a magnificent rally" in the stock market. pic.twitter.com/XpZtxbMMAO
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 9, 2018
This doesn’t mean Mueller never found anything of interest, by the way. It just means Rosenstein thought this was something the NY feds should handle. Getting a warrant to seize a lawyer’s records is highly unusual and indicates they have proof of crimes.
And of course it means these are crimes Trump can’t pardon.
It seems as though there was another lawyer named Cohen way back in the 1950’s who hunted for American Communists for Senator Joe McCarthy.
Both of these Cohens are/were amoral, money grubbers who would do anything for a buck.
One assumes that their hero was mobster Arnold Rothstein.
Bolton has fired two of McMaster’s staff people in the past two days.
Tom Bossert and Michael Anton.
Both are Bush guys who hate Muslims and supported the Iraq War.
That was Cohn, not Cohen, and Fergus has been searching for a replacement for his attorney and mentor ever since he died, and failing to find one because the things he liked about Cohn were not, in fact, what made him effective as an attorney.
Also, I believe this is still in pardon territory, as it’s the US Attorney. Had it been the New York state Attorney General, than he would be beyond the reach of a presidential pardon.