We told you the Michael Cohen raid was entirely about Donald Trump

| 7:19 pm EDT April 12, 2018
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Shortly after the FBI raided the office and residence of Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen, the emerging details spelled out – to Palmer Report at least – that the raid was clearly all about Trump himself. As usual, we took flack from those on the left who couldn’t figure out our logic, and from those on the right who didn’t want it to be true. Now the warrant involved in the raid is emerging, and they’re spelling out that we had it right to begin with.

The key detail that emerged on Monday, and on some level the only detail that mattered was this: the FBI seized communications between Cohen and Trump. That meant the judge had signed off on a search warrant specifically allowing those communications to be seized. Because Cohen is technically Trump’s attorney, and attorney-client privilege applies, that in turn meant that the judge must have believed that those communications documented Trump and Cohen conspiring to commit a crime, and not merely evidence that Trump had committed a crime.

Sure enough, CBS News is now reporting that its sources have seen the search warrant in question, and that Trump is in fact named in the warrant. In the words of CBS, “the real target of the raids was Mr. Trump.” In the words of the source, the warrant was a “search and destroy mission” against Trump.

Inside sourcing is great, but logically and legally speaking, we didn’t need this inside peek in order to know that Trump was the real target. That was established the minute we learned that the Trump-Cohen communications had been seized. Now we have “confirmation” of what we already rather firmly knew. Donald Trump was the target of that raid. Michael Cohen was merely in the way. Perhaps the skeptics won’t doubt our logic next time. Support Palmer Report.