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Hmmm: Mueller got search warrants for Cohen almost immediately

Robert Mueller’s team of investigators raided Michael Cohen’s office and residence in April of last year, but that was hardly the beginning of his interest in Donald Trump’s fixer. Redacted warrants released today as part of a FOIA demand shows that Mueller got search warrants for Cohen’s communications almost a full year earlier. That might revive some discussion about attorney-client privilege and the special counsel’s investigation — as well as speculation as to why redactions conceal allegations of campaign-finance violations:

Special counsel Robert Mueller first obtained search warrants for three of Michael Cohen’s email accounts starting in the summer of 2017, long before Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney was raided by FBI agents in April 2018 for campaign finance crimes, according to partially redacted search warrant materials released Tuesday morning.

The documents, which number hundreds of pages, were released as a result of a ruling from federal Judge William Pauley partially granting a request from various media organizations, including CNN, to unseal documents related to the raid on Cohen’s home, office and hotel room. The materials related to the campaign finance contribution scheme are entirely redacted in the documents.

Recall at the time of the raid that Trump and others objected to seizure of Cohen’s work on the basis of privilege. Alan Dershowitz declared attorney-client privilege “dead” in the United States after the raid. Mueller and the courts set up a blind review intended to separate legitimately privileged material from evidence of corrupt acts by Cohen on behalf of clients.

After Cohen became a reluctant cooperator, that issue largely dropped off the radar screen, but one has to wonder whether it will re-emerge now. Privilege attaches to the client, not the attorney, and anything captured by prosecutors before the raid might well have been privileged. In fact, it’s almost a certainty. Did they hold all of that material for the special master? Was it also vetted — and if so, how, and to what standard?

Of course, Mueller stopped taking an interest in Cohen after a few months, transferring the case off to the US Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. Cohen cooperated with Mueller afterward, unimpressively according to their sentencing recommendation, but he’s also cooperating with SDNY to this day. This tells us that Mueller’s still unlikely to develop anything through Cohen, but SDNY looks veeerrrrryyyyy interested in picking Cohen’s brain to this day. The need to redact everything under the heading “The Illegal Campaign Contribution Scheme” strongly suggests that prosecutors are actively pursuing a case against someone other than Cohen to this day.

NRO’s Andrew McCarthy has written repeatedly that the SDNY investigation presents a far greater threat to Trump than Mueller’s. This release provides more evidence of that potential threat to Trump, or at least those associated with the fundraising for the campaign. It may still come to nothing, but at the very least we know it hasn’t yet come to nothing.

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Nunes: Twitter Lawsuit ‘The First of Many’

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) stated that his lawsuit against Twitter is “the first of many” lawsuits. Nunes said, “So, this is the first of many, Sean. And what we’re doing here is, we’re actually going after Twitter first because they are the main proliferator, and they spread this fake news and the slanderous news.” He added, “They need to come clean. They’re not a public square. They are content developers.” He later stated, “I think if Twitter wants to be in the public square, and they don’t want to be a content developer, they should come clean, give us all your algorithms.” (h/t Mediaite) Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett

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Mark Meadows: There Are Sitting Ambassadors Who Were Involved with Deep State Coup to Get Trump (VIDEO)

On Monday night Rep. Mark Meadows, reporter Sara Carter and FOX News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett joined Sean Hannity to discuss the latest developments in the deep state coup of Donald Trump.

Once again, Sean Hannity assured his audience that criminal referrals are coming soon for the deep state operatives who worked overtime to criminally remove President Trump from office.

Sean Hannity: What we now have is the beginning of a cascade of information of materials that will be collaborating everything we have been telling you…

Then Rep. Mark Meadows dropped this bomb on the Deep State — Sitting ambassadors were involved in the coup to get Trump.

Mark Meadows: Additional information is coming out that will show you that not only was there no collusion but there was a coordinated effort to take this president down. We talk about the Deep State. There are players now, even ambassadors, even sitting ambassadors that were involved in part of this with the FBI and DOJ. So as we look at this it is time we show the American people wha is out there, declassify some of those documents. I think when the American people see what I’ve seen they will judge that this has all been a hoax.

This is Huge News!

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De Blasio draws massive NH crowd. Naw… just kidding

If New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t running for president in 2020, what the heck is he doing? Rather than staying at home and dealing with the city’s mounting infrastructure and law enforcement problems, he’s busy raising PAC money for the Democratic Parties in other states and touring the early voting states talking to anyone who will listen. Unfortunately for Hizzoner, the number of people actually interested in listening hasn’t been particularly impressive. That was certainly the case when he showed up to host a public forum on mental health. Aside from the guest speakers sitting on the panel, a grand total of six people showed up to listen. (NY Post)

Mayor de Blasio’s ongoing tease of a presidential run didn’t exactly pull in the crowds during a campaign-esque event in the Granite State.

Only 20 people showed up Sunday to hear the leader of America’s largest city hold a roundtable on mental health — including the 14 people on the panel and just six in the audience.

There were also about six reporters on hand to make the room at the Sugar River Valley Regional technical school look a bit less empty.

De Blasio — who continued to refuse to commit to a White House run — pulled a well-worn page from his mayoral campaign playbook and put First Lady Chirlane McCray center stage on what was his second day touring the crucial primary battleground state.

His supporters should have already been nervous when he announced that the subject would be mental health. That meant that he planned on bringing his wife, Chirlane McCray along. And that he did. But as we discussed here previously, the First Lady of the Big Apple is under scrutiny herself these days. She was put in charge of a New York City mental health initiative called Thrive NYC. In the time she’s been at the helm, Thrive has managed to blow through nearly a billion dollars with few signs of any results and they can’t account for most of the money.

All of the polling we’ve seen thus far would indicate that there is absolutely no significant pool of voters out there desperately waiting for Bill de Blasio to announce a presidential bid. Even the Democrats in his home state don’t want him to run. And from the looks of things, the voters in New Hampshire aren’t exactly on fire over the idea either.

If the Mayor really believes he can build a following and make a successful run at the nomination he should get off of his backside and just declare already. New Hampshire is already groaning under the strain of a crop of presidential candidates who have once again descended on them like a plague of locusts. The don’t need de Blasio cluttering up the streets and town halls if he’s not even going to be in the race.

But if he’s seriously going to do it he’d better sign on some good staff members. They’ll need to prepare him for the moment when his opponents start bringing up all the corruption trials swirling around his administration and the number of good friends of his who have already been sent to jail. And when they finish prepping him for those questions, maybe they can figure out where all the mental health money his wife sawed through wound up.

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Jewish Voters Stampeding To The Exits Over Dem Anti-Semitism

Now that it has been established that the Democrats are all-in with the Jew-haters following the party’s defense of indefensible hateful comments by freshman superstar Ilhan Omar, Jewish voters are running for the exits of what has become a lunatic asylum faster than you can say Exodus.

Until the arrival of Omar, fellow bomb thrower Rashida Tlaib and the buck-toothed jackass socialist sensation Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the loathing of all things Jewish was mostly kept in the darkness and largely confined to the racist Congressional Black Caucus with its gaggle of those who are chummy with Nation Of Islam hatemonger Louis Farrakhan.

Some of this vile bigotry recently percolated up to the service with former DNC co-chairman Keith Ellison’s Nation Of Islam ties being questioned but it exploded like the chest burster in an “Alien” movie with the arrival of Omar who may never have personally stuffed a Jew into an oven but would likely offer to hold the door open while such a thing went on.

Hand it to the radicals, they have managed to successfully beat back criticism of Omar – who replaced Ellison in her Little Somalia Minneapolis district – and after bullying Fox into kicking Judge Jeanine Pirro off the airwaves, they have gone on the offensive by accusing those who justifiably blasted the Jew-haters as get this – Islamophobes.

The suits at Fox may be pissing in their britches over the fear of CAIR and being called mean names on Twitter and the aging Nancy Pelosi lost in a fog of dementia but one group is onto the Hitlerian shift in the party.

The Jews themselves.

Via The New York Post, “Jewish voters are furious at Dems’ defense of Ilhan Omar”:

Jewish voters furious at Democrats’ defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar say they’re done with the party that has held their support for generations.

“We felt we had a home there,” said Mark Schwartz, the Democratic deputy mayor of solidly blue Teaneck, NJ. “And now we feel like we have to check our passports.”

Jordan Manor of Manhattan, who calls himself a “gay Jewish Israeli-American,” laments, “The party I thought cared about me seems to disregard me when it comes to my Jewish identity.”

Mark Dunec, a consultant in Livingston, NJ who ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2014, says, “I’m physically afraid for myself and for my family,” adding, “I see my own party contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.”

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“The watered-down resolution triggered my decision to walk away from the Democratic Party,” said Allison Gangi of Manhattan.

“I never dreamed anti-Semitism would have become mainstream on the left, but it has.”

Sara said she is “not comfortable anymore being a Democrat” and will register as an independent.

Among his Teaneck neighbors, Schwartz said, “Our only question now is, do we start voting Republican, or do we become Republicans?”

Others say they feel like the wandering Jew of legend.

“I’m homeless. I don’t think I can vote for Trump, even though he’s great for Israel,” said Jason, a start-up owner from Long Island who asked that his surname not be used. “But as a Jew, I can’t see a way to support the Democratic Party. It’s supporting your own destruction.”

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And that’s not all either. Many in Omar’s district are disgusted that she would disgrace Minnesota in such a manner and are already looking for someone to primary her ugly ass.

It may very well be that Omar’s tenure will be short if a suitable alternative can be found in time to flush this hateful turd come next November although the stench will linger for a long time for the Democrats.

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Young People’s Embrace of Socialism Shows Why We Shouldn’t Lower the Voting Age

The left really wants to give kids the right to vote.

This idea is so popular on the left that a majority of House Democrats voted in favor of lowering the voting age to 16.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed the idea as well.

Why would Pelosi and others on the left want to give high school children—hardly known for deep wisdom and sound judgment—a vote?

A new poll perhaps demonstrates why.

The Harris Poll, released exclusively by Axios, shows that roughly half of young Americans say they would prefer living in a socialist country.

It also reveals that many young Americans think the government should provide free health care, education, and medicine, among many other things.

This is very much in line with a poll released in late 2017 by the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund that found similar support for communism among young people, along with widespread ignorance about what communism is.

Most of those surveyed couldn’t define communism or socialism. Many believed, for instance, that President George W. Bush killed more people than Josef Stalin, the ruthless Soviet dictator whose regime murdered tens of millions.

The fact is, socialism attracts widespread support from millennials and members of Generation Z who at the same time are ignorant about socialism.

It’s no wonder that left-wing groups are desperately trying to find ways to get children to vote or be used as useful tools for their agenda, which now appears to include outright socialism.

While young people embrace at least the word “socialism” in disproportionately high numbers, Americans as a whole find the term toxic, as far as who they’d be willing to vote for.

According to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, just 25 percent of respondents found “socialist” to be a desirable trait for a presidential candidate. It was among the least-liked traits in the entire poll.

Perhaps America’s older cohorts simply have a better understanding of what socialism is, having lived through the Cold War and faced the existential crisis of the Soviet threat to our country.

Young people, born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, have less of a real-world example to draw on in relation to the evil that socialism creates for a society that adopts it in total.

It’s clear that in the debate over socialism, education is where we have failed. A generation or generations of young Americans are falling under the impression that socialism, whatever they think it is, will bring more prosperity.

History, of course, demonstrates the opposite.

The reason America is so prosperous, and why it remains a place where so many people around the globe aspire to live, is because it rejected these ruthlessly collectivist doctrines.

Our nation held tightly to the ideas of the rule of law, private property, and the Constitution, all of which do far more for the common citizen than the doctrines of socialism, which put absolute power in the hands of a few.

Yet, our education system is failing to transmit those basic ideas to upcoming generations, a failure that this country desperately needs to change if we are to remain a free country.

In a recent survey of how Americans perform on a basic citizenship test, most failed and young people fared by far the worst.

This ties back into the the current debate over voting age.

It’s a good thing that young people participate in politics, develop an instinct for informed citizenship, and take the future of the country seriously.

However, we shouldn’t fetishize youth as itself an advantage, especially when it comes with such a disturbing lack of understanding about history and civics.

The left has a sort of Rousseauian concept of young people as being free from the shackling norms of civilization, as being capable of drawing from wisdom unclouded by the built-up prejudices of experience.

But the demands of citizenship are not fulfilled by mere youthful energy. They require an education in civics, an understanding of our institutions, a certain independence of thought and action.

At the same time progressives demand the lowering of the voting age, we increasingly infantilize young Americans, who are not really seen as “adults” until the age of 26, long after most graduate college.

From smoking to gun ownership, progressives are stripping the rights and life choices of young adults.

Meanwhile, they demand that we put increasing power in the hands of 16-year-olds to determine our leaders and laws.

This has things entirely backward.

Noah Rothman said it best in Commentary magazine:

At a time when society seems inclined to indulge young people’s desire to languish in an extended twilight childhood, it’s revealing that voting is the only adult responsibility for which Democrats think children are prepared. When it comes to just about any other condition of maturity, Democrats seem to think the proper course is the exact opposite.

So lowering the voting age is both reckless in its ethos to put voting power in the hands of people who are not ready for responsible citizenship, yet also is reduced to a mere palliative.

“Democracy” is expanded as liberty recedes, making democratic participation worth little more than a pat on the back.

While this may seem fine for generations raised in the milieu of the “self-esteem” movement, it’s hardly a recipe to strengthen the republic or produce better leaders.

Further lowering the voting age—which at 18 is already quite low—degrades the positives of democracy in America and turns it into the sad caricature of mob rule that the Founders feared.

Let us do more to create responsible adults and citizens rather than perpetually apply “democracy” in places where it is unwarranted.

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WATCH: Muslim Doctor Stuns CNN: President Trump And GOP ‘Beloved’ In Much Of The Muslim World

On Saturday, a Muslim doctor who has been highly critical of radical Islam appeared on CNN and must have given that network heart palpitations as she insisted that in many parts of the Muslim world, not only is President Trump beloved, but so is former President George W. Bush, and that the Trump administration is not Islamophobic.

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