Fed Judge in DC unseals 5 search warrant applications that Mueller filed in 2017 re: Michael Cohen

[kpete]

New: A federal judge in DC has unsealed five search warrant applications that Mueller's office filed in 2017 while they were investigating Michael Cohen

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Drip, drip, drip...

More and more information is coming out...

[Shell_Seas]

2. Cliffnotes? What do they say?

[herding cats]

3. An excellent explanation as to why this is a big fucking deal.

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The highlights:

MICHAEL COHEN’S HPSCI TESTIMONY PROVES TRUMP LIED IN HIS ANSWERS TO MUELLER

TRUMP’S RESPONSES ON TRUMP TOWER QUESTIONS WERE THE LEAST RESPONSIVE OF HIS MANY NON-RESPONSIVE ANSWERS

AFTER COHEN PLED GUILTY, MUELLER OFFERED TRUMP A CHANCE TO CORRECT HIS TESTIMONY, BUT HE REFUSED

PART OF TRUMP’S RESPONSE EXACTLY REPLICATES THE LIES COHEN TOLD, IN A STATEMENT PREPARED WITH THE INPUT OF JAY SEKULOW, TO CONGRESS

THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION WITHHELD THE DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD HAVE MADE IT CLEAR COHEN WAS LYING FROM THE COMMITTEES

COHEN DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THESE EMAILS WITH JOINT DEFENSE AGREEMENT LAWYERS, BUT HE TALKED ABOUT THE POLIAKOVA ONE (AND THE FOLLOW-UP CALL) WITH TRUMP

Read all the analysis here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/05/21/michael-cohens-hpsci-testimony-proves-trump-lied-in-his-answers-to-mueller/

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Hmmm...a lot of reading material.

[pecosbob]

5. One nugget I gleaned from another post here at DU

is that Cohen had over one thousand calls logged on his phone to the Russians beginning election day.