How Robert Mueller knew Ford Motor Company rejected Michael Cohen’s request for a Donald Trump bribe

| 7:44 pm EDT May 12, 2018
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Earlier this week Palmer Report pointed out that the bribe money being sought by Michael Cohen on Donald Trump’s behalf couldn’t possibly have been limited to just the two or three companies that had been reported. After all, if the word is out in corporate America that the “President” of the United States wants bribe money, there’s going to be plenty more action where that came from. Now we’re learning that Cohen tried to drag Ford Motor Company into it as well, but Ford said no. The question is how Robert Mueller knew about the Ford incident.

In the days since Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti announced that Michael Cohen’s bank records showed evidence of multiple bribes, it’s since been widely reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating those bribes for at least six months. It’s not difficult to surmise how Mueller could have initially found out about the bribes from the likes of AT&T and Novartis: he followed the money. But just how did Mueller learn that about the Ford incident, which didn’t involve any money changing hands?

Cohen approached Ford and asked the company to hire him as a “consultant” which was surely understood to have been an attempt at soliciting bribe money in exchange for influence over Donald Trump. Ford told Cohen to take a hike. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the Ford story, is simply stating that Mueller “learned about in the course of his investigation.” So how did Mueller know about this, long before any of it became public? There are only two logical possibilities, and neither is good news for Cohen or Trump.

The WSJ says that Michael Cohen approached Ford Motor Company over the phone. So the first possibility here is that Robert Mueller and the Feds have had a FISA eavesdropping warrant on Cohen’s phone for a very long time. The second possibility is that Ford considered it so egregious, it made a point of reporting Cohen to the Feds.