{"id":29092,"date":"2018-04-09T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29092"},"modified":"2018-04-09T22:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:39:05","slug":"fbi-launches-raid-and-the-mystery-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29092","title":{"rendered":"FBI launches raid and the mystery deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AAvGISj.img_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29093\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AAvGISj.img_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AAvGISj.img_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AAvGISj.img_.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FBI agents conducted a quick-hit raid on the office of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the guy who shelled out that $130,000 hush-money payment to porn queen Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an affair that the president denies ever occurring.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with me on this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/fbi-raids-office-of-trump%e2%80%99s-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen\/ar-AAvGRqH?li=BBnb7Kz\">Cohen allegedly paid<\/a> the money without his client&#8217;s knowledge. It supposedly came from a personal account. Trump has said he didn&#8217;t know about the payment. And surely we believe the liar in chief&#8217;s denial. Isn&#8217;t that what we&#8217;re supposed to do? I mean, he&#8217;s the president of the United States &#8230; after all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no expert on legal ethics, but this one just doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test. It stinks to high heaven.<\/p>\n<p>So the FBI wants to take a look at the documents that Cohen had squirreled away in his office. They may &#8212; or may not &#8212; have anything to do with special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation in the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; that Trump calls a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; and the product of &#8220;fake news&#8221; and Democrats who are still steamed over losing the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>As an American taxpayer with a keen interest in seeing this mystery play out, I welcome the FBI raid on Cohen&#8217;s office. It tells me that the nation&#8217;s premier law enforcement agency is on the hunt. It is seeking the truth behind &#8212; at a bare minimum (no pun intended) &#8212; this seedy, tawdry story involving our nation&#8217;s head of state.<\/p>\n<p>There might be some element to this story and the payment of the hush money that hasn&#8217;t come out just yet.<\/p>\n<p>So, the mystery deepens. Same for the intrigue.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI agents conducted a quick-hit raid on the office of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. He&#8217;s the guy who shelled out that $130,000 hush-money payment to porn queen Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an affair that the president denies ever occurring. Stay with me on this. Cohen allegedly paid the money &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI launches raid and the mystery deepens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6712,1693,7694,3983,7093,7555],"class_list":["post-29092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-fbi","tag-michael-cohen","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-stormy-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29094,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29092\/revisions\/29094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}