The real reason the FBI is targeting the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape
Today we learned that when the FBI raided the office and residence of Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen this week, it wasn’t merely seeking evidence in relation to the Stormy Daniels payoff. It was also seeking information about Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape. The FBI is not known to be investigating Trump’s various alleged sexual assaults, which wouldn’t necessarily fall under federal jurisdiction. So what’s this really about? As it turns out, the Access Hollywood incident is being investigated as part of the Trump-Russia scandal.
The FBI used its raid to seek evidence of whether Michael Cohen “tried to suppress damaging information about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign” in relation to the Access Hollywood tape and other developments during the election, according to a new report from the New York Times. So what does this mean, and how does it relate to Trump bragging that he liked to grab women by their genitals? The NY Times didn’t spell it out, but we will.
Within a span of not much more than an hour, the U.S government released an intel community report detailing how Russia was meddling in the election on Trump’s behalf, the Access Hollywood tape surfaced, and WikiLeaks released emails that Russian hackers had stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. It was either the most unlikely confluence of coincidental events in modern history, or the three things were released in relation to each other.
There are competing schools of thought as to whether WikiLeaks released the emails to try to take media attention away from the Access Hollywood tape and the the U.S. government report about Russia, or if perhaps the Trump campaign purposely leaked the Access Hollywood tape in its desperation to distract from the report about Russia. Take your pick. But now that the FBI is executing search warrants to see if Trump’s fixer Cohen was illegally involved in either promoting or distracting from the Access Hollywood tape, it’s clear that the Feds (and the judge who signed off on the warrant) don’t think it was a coincidence. And if Cohen was involved in this, what are the odds Donald Trump didn’t know?
