6/16/18: Federal investigators have pieced together 16 pages of shredded documents seized in a raid on the office of Michael Cohen. They also recovered 731 pages of encrypted text messages, because what lawyer doesn’t encrypt text messages?
In addition, Cohen’s lawyers have suffered a string of defeats. Arguing that all of his records are shielded by attorney-client privilege, they convince a special judge to review 12,543 pages of paper records, comprising 639 documents. The judge examines them all before they are seen by prosecutors and rules that only 13 are protected. Another 291,700 items on two phones and an iPad are reviewed. Only 148 are privileged or partially privileged. Seven are of a personal nature and can be shielded. The rest are available to build a case against Mr. Cohen.
Cohen fires his entire legal team.
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IN OTHER NEWS, Pastor Danny Stockstill, a Republican candidate for Congress in Oklahoma’s First District, makes headlines when he offers up a truthful assessment of the president. Speaking before a forum of potential voters, he is asked if he considers the president a good role model for children.
“We like President Trump because he says what he says and he means what he says,” Stockstill replies. “So why are we so afraid to say, ‘There’s no way I want my son to act like [Trump]?’”
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Would you want your son to have the same morals as Trump? |
Truth-telling probably backfired, but at least Stockstill finished with a pro-guns flourish (kind of):
If my daughter ever dates a man
who treated her like he treats women, I’m going to use my Second Amendment. If
I ever find out my son has treated women the way he has, I don’t care how old
[my son] is, I’m going to come down on him.
If we can’t stand up and say out
loud, “I disagree with President Trump in the way he treats people,” shame on
us.
BLOGGER’S NOTE: Soon after, Rev. Stockstill finishes dead last out of five candidates, with 7.8% of the vote, in the GOP primary.
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