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It's so unfair.
The corrupt Department of Justice just decided unilaterally to pick through boxes and boxes of Donald Trumps private documents held by his lawyer. But what about Hilary's emails? No-one one does anything - apparently - despite Trump telling them to. All her emails are "missing" and yet the DoJ can find thousands of documents about Trump's illegal in-kind donations to sex workers. How convenient. Why is nobody talking about illegal in-kind donations by Hilary? What about her affairs with sex workers? So so unfair.
The corrupt Department of Justice just decided unilaterally to pick through boxes and boxes of Donald Trumps private documents held by his lawyer. But what about Hilary's emails? No-one one does anything - apparently - despite Trump telling them to. All her emails are "missing" and yet the DoJ can find thousands of documents about Trump's illegal in-kind donations to sex workers. How convenient. Why is nobody talking about illegal in-kind donations by Hilary? What about her affairs with sex workers? So so unfair.
Judge rejects Trump and Cohen's bid to view seized papers before prosecutors
The FBI last week searched Cohen’s properties along with a safe deposit box, phones and other devices after obtaining a search warrant from a judge, apparently out of concern that Cohen would not comply with a subpoena.
The seized material has not yet been made available to prosecutors investigating Cohen.
A request for Cohen and Trump to be allowed to vet the documents seized from Cohen before prosecutors can examine them was rejected by a federal judge on Monday. Thomas McKay, an assistant US attorney argued against the request, saying it was not justified or legally sound. McKay accused the pair of deliberately trying to delay the investigation into Cohen and slow down proceedings for year.
McKay accused the Cohen-Trump side of “trying to drum up media attention and then turning around and citing that media attention” as the basis for special treatment. “Both Mr Cohen and President Trump made inflammatory statements about this case. Our office has done no such thing,” said McKay.
An attorney for Trump, conceded that allowing them to review the seized files for privileged documents “will take a long time”. McKay returned repeatedly to his central argument that Cohen, and in turn Trump, should not be given allowances unavailable to ordinary citizens.
Judge Kimba Wood directed prosecutors to produce a copy of all Cohen’s files for his team and to begin searching metadata to estimate the volume of material. Then, she suggested, a taint team would proceed.
The FBI last week searched Cohen’s properties along with a safe deposit box, phones and other devices after obtaining a search warrant from a judge, apparently out of concern that Cohen would not comply with a subpoena.
The seized material has not yet been made available to prosecutors investigating Cohen.
A request for Cohen and Trump to be allowed to vet the documents seized from Cohen before prosecutors can examine them was rejected by a federal judge on Monday. Thomas McKay, an assistant US attorney argued against the request, saying it was not justified or legally sound. McKay accused the pair of deliberately trying to delay the investigation into Cohen and slow down proceedings for year.
McKay accused the Cohen-Trump side of “trying to drum up media attention and then turning around and citing that media attention” as the basis for special treatment. “Both Mr Cohen and President Trump made inflammatory statements about this case. Our office has done no such thing,” said McKay.
An attorney for Trump, conceded that allowing them to review the seized files for privileged documents “will take a long time”. McKay returned repeatedly to his central argument that Cohen, and in turn Trump, should not be given allowances unavailable to ordinary citizens.
Judge Kimba Wood directed prosecutors to produce a copy of all Cohen’s files for his team and to begin searching metadata to estimate the volume of material. Then, she suggested, a taint team would proceed.
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