Conspiring with Russia may be the least of Donald Trump’s problems. His inability to keep his pants zipped and have sexual relations with women to whom is not married, especially those who resemble his daughter Ivanka, may be what gets him impeached. Take it away Marcy Wheeler, It was a three ring circus among top …
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Aug 22 2018
Tuesday’s Trifecta
Tuesday was quite day for the Trump administration and the Republican party. Trump’s personal lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen plead guilty in a New York federal court to eight criminal counts and implicated Donald Trump in a plea deal with prosecutors of the Southern District of New York. The counts against Cohen included tax fraud, …
Jul 20 2018
Surprise, Surprise, There Are Tapes
Anyone who is surprised about the news that Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen made tapes of conversations hasn’t been paying attention. Michael Cohen secretly recorded a 2016 conversation in which he and President Trump discussed paying hush money to a former Playboy model who claims she slept with Trump, the New York Times reported …
May 14 2018
Bad Lawyers: Trump’s Fixer
By now it is well known that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, doesn’t really practice law. As a graduate of one of the worst law schools in the US, Cohen functions mostly as a bagman for Trump and his business, that has been under the watchful eye of federal investigators for years …
May 09 2018
The Russian Connection: Where Did $4 Million Go?
Tuesday evening, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti dropped a bombshell revealing that Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen received $500,000 from Russia oligarch Viktor Vekselberg after the 2016 presidential election. The story was corroborated by The New York Times and The Washington Post Today it was reported that there were also payments …
Apr 16 2018
The Russian Connection: Motions Denied
In a blow to Donald Trump and his consigliere Michael Cohen, Judge Kimba Woods denied their motions to stop prosecutors from reviewing the evidence seized in the raids of Cohen’s office and residences. U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood denied the requests and ruled that prosecutors will get first access to the information, followed by …
Apr 10 2018
The Russian Connection: Closer and Closer
Up Date 15:15 ET: ABC News is reporting that Geoffrey Berman, the acting US Attorney for the Southern District of NY and a Rudi Guilliani crony, recused himself from the Michael Cohen investigation and had no role in the raids. As per the NYT’s today, it was Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who signed the …