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Could Cohen be the link to prove conspiracy & collusion? See the article and then speculation below.
NYT
"The F.B.I. agents who raided the office and hotel of President Trumps lawyer on Monday were seeking all records related to the Access Hollywood tape in which Mr. Trump was heard making vulgar comments about women, according to three people who have been briefed on the contents of a federal search warrant.
The search warrant also sought evidence of whether the lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, tried to suppress damaging information about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-access-hollywood.html
SPECULATION: Someone on another board pointed this out. Do you remember what happened immediately after the Access Hollywood tapes came out? Wikileaks started dumping emails from the Clinton campaign. Immediately.
What if Mueller and team have strong indications that Cohen was the one who signaled to Wikileaks to move right now? If they can find evidence of that...
That would prove conspiracy.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)Blast HRC just when your own trash is aired. Obstruction of the free election.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)Damning evidence is now in the hands of people who will bring them down. And they know it.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)I think Mueller's reports will likely expose in detail a Watergate-Rosenberg-TamanyHall-CreditMobilier-Abramoff-TeapotDome-Hastert-KeatingFive fustercluck.
erronis
(15,257 posts)I think the current stain on this country's history will eclipse the rest, but still each one is really scary.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)hence Wikileaks leaking a mere half an hour after the access hollywood tape broke. BING FUCKING O.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)Link to tweet
Jim Sciutto
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.@RepAdamSchiff just raised possibility that Mueller is investigating whether Trump aides colluded with Wikileaks and/or Russia on the timing of Podesta emails release @CNNSitRoom
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im Sciutto
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Remindier: Wikileaks started publishing first of hacked Podesta emails within an hour of the release of the Access Hollywood tape. This was also the same day ODNI/DHS first publicly blamed #Russia for election interference.
8:07 PM - Apr 11, 2018
procon
(15,805 posts)O please, all ye gods of the great email server in Trump Tower, hear my plea and let there be a direct communique ordering Ivan or Natasha to release those cursed emails.
B2G
(9,766 posts)He seems like a scorched earth sort.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)But Comey did that for him
B2G
(9,766 posts)But it took weeks to sort through them.
Hope we find out soon.
LisaM
(27,811 posts)It infuriates me.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)kentuck
(111,095 posts)Maybe they could subpoena MGM and get the rest of the tapes that were never made public?
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)you might cross the street at that point or risk being hit by a jumping Michael Cohen.
Jim__
(14,076 posts)It seems like it would be right in Mueller's court.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)writes3000
(4,734 posts)1) The most obvious one is that Rosenstein did it this way to try to avoid Mueller getting blamed by Trump. With this kind of direct hit against Trump, they had to be concerned about his blowback.
2) If the way they got the warrants were about some other crime specific to that area, then Rosenstein would probably have to refer it to the SDNY. The key is that the Mueller investigation is guaranteed to get evidence that applies to their case.
Perhaps its a bit of both. Theyre using the SDNY to do the work and provide a bit of cover while asking for the evidence theyre looking for.
czarjak
(11,277 posts)Mofos....
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Russia was hacking databases. Then all kinds of other thigns happened to distract from that.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Just coordination?
Use one event to cover the other. Or one to grab attention while the other trashes the opposition. High risk strategy, one might not be entirely able to control the outcome. But on a more primitive emotional level, the Access Hollywood tape makes Trump sound macho or even enhances his raw charisma to his base, while the email release casts doubt on HRC to everyone who will listen.
So yes, coordination of the two events would not surprise me. Willie Horton ads 1988 sounded like a real loser, but it went straight to prejudice and clinched the deal for Bush. See how these subliminial emotional events play to peoples' lowest emotions?
triron
(22,003 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)I believe that was in early August and Wikileaks (or that Gucci guy) did release pages every day for a couple of weeks. Remember, it caused such a problem with the Bernie Bros? They screamed for Wasserman Schultz's resignation, which they got. That all happened before the Billy Bush's Access Hollywood tape hit paydirt.
I don't know this for a fact but it sure looked like Jeb Bush secretly released the pussy tape, in a way that never reflected back to him. But he did have the tape (through his brother Billy) and he also had a huge grudge against Trump. The tape came out about 10 days before the election, maybe the last week of October 2016. Hillary's emails had already been circulated for a couple months by then.
The timing of the Access Hollywood tape was within a day or two of Comey's announcement that he was re-opening the investigation into Hillary's emails. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? No Hillary emails were actually released by Wikileaks then.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)These were emails hacked from his gmail account. Yes, there were hacked DNC emails that were released earlier but the Podesta emails were released on Oct 7 - again.. SAME day as the AH tape.
Billy and Jeb are cousins, not brothers. If Jeb had it, why wouldn't he release during the primaries?
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)= Clinton campaign emails.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)I think that was my point. I'm reading about this in Russian Roulette at the moment.