Lordy, there are tapes of Donald Trump – and Robert Mueller just seized them
No wonder Donald Trump threw such a super-sized fit after the FBI raided the office and residence of his attorney Michael Cohen. We’ve kept hearing about how the Feds seized “communications” between Trump and Cohen, and we wondered what this looked like. Trump doesn’t do email. Was he writing Cohen letters? Now we have the answer, and it’s turning out to be Trump’s worst nightmare.
Trump’s own allies are now revealing that Michael Cohen likes to tape record conversations, according to a new Washington Post report. They’re not saying that the tapes are of Trump. But considering that Trump is the one who likes to conduct business via the phone or in person, it’s pretty clear that these are the “communications” that were seized. So what now?
As Palmer Report spelled out earlier in the week, due to attorney-client privilege, any tapes that simply consist of Trump confessing his crimes to Cohen will not be admissible as evidence. But as we’ve also explained, the judge only would have signed off on the seizure of communications between Trump and Cohen if the judge had an expectation that those communications would reveal Trump and Cohen conspiring to commit crimes together. Although the raid was carried out by the FBI after having been signed off on by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, any admissible evidence will immediately end up in Robert Mueller’s hands, which was of course the point of the raid all along.
So now we know that Robert Mueller has tapes of Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, and that the judge who signed the warrant believes those tapes probably document Trump and Cohen conspiring to commit crimes. We can’t think of anything much more damning against Trump, in the legal sense or in the court of public opinion, than Trump caught on tape conspiring to commit crimes.
