He’s watching
More on the news of the hour:
The @FBI would only have been able to raid the office and home of @realDonaldTrump lawyer Michael Cohen because an independent federal judge found probable cause that Cohen committed one or more crimes. https://t.co/r2xiBGvO4K
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) 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/UiA4ob7HPZ pic.twitter.com/Ff5ADbcGsH
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 9, 2018
Be afraid.
Latest from @Tom_Winter: FBI is "taking everything they think they need to do a major federal criminal investigation” in Michael Cohen raid
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) April 9, 2018
BREAKING: FBI raid at 30 Rock today. Here’s the official statement from the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, where Michael Cohen had his office in NY that was searched: pic.twitter.com/MBGtEAQ7wd
— Katelyn Polantz (@kpolantz) April 9, 2018
A source close to the White House says Mueller’s decision to raid the offices of Michael Cohen could well push the President in the direction of taking action against the special counsel’s office, @acosta reports https://t.co/hcNsBbjpr1 pic.twitter.com/mjsuWBKjfR
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) April 9, 2018
Could get ugly.
Rod Rosenstein wanted the FBI's raid of Michael Cohen's office to be handled separately from the Mueller probe, Bloomberg reports.
Mueller originally unearthed the info that was grounds for the raid:https://t.co/nZ7CNVf4qd pic.twitter.com/zWYPsn9qPf
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) April 9, 2018
Ha, wish I could have been in the room when Trump heard the news.
Hopefully we’ll get some juicy details of his reaction at least…
So he had a public tantrum about it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8_itl7EEwwE
More insanity transcribed here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/9/1755753/-Trump-calls-raid-of-Cohen-s-office-an-attack-on-our-county-says-We-ll-see-about-firing-Mueller
“It’s an attack on our country in a true sense.”
I could see that if one subscribed to “l’ etat c’est moi,” but otherwise I would characterize it as the country’s autoimmune response.
Sorry, that should have been immune response, as an autoimmune response is a mistaken attack by the body against healthy tissues. This is not a mistake and the tissues in question are not healthy or normal.