re: Anyone Not Think This is a Witch Hunt?

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What happened yesterday is very likely that a warrant was served on Cohen, who is a target of an investigation, because he paid Stormy Daniels $125,000 and that is/could be a violation of election laws.

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What election laws is this a violation of? Cohen, by all accounts, did not use campaign money. If you and Toddy have sex, and you pay him not to tell this board, that's between you and Toddy and your attorneys. It's not a criminal matter.

The Russians executed a plan to interfere with our elections in 2016. This is a fact. The special counsel was set up BY REPUBLICANS to investigate that and all related matters. The special counsel is a REPUBLICAN as is his supervisor (a Trump appointee). The Democrats have little power and less influence.

Mueller is legit as is his investigation. It is the House investigation that was not legitimate.

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Money laundering.

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Link?

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The Russians executed a plan to interfere with our elections in 2016. This is a fact

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No, actually it's not a fact. I've seen no evidence of it being a fact. Only statements from Obama's cronies like John Brennan in the CIA. I think many in Congress believe it to be a fact and I think there is specious "evidence" of it being a fact, but on closer examination that evidence falls apart. We have no idea who hacked the DNC and neither does Congress. And, really, this whole "Russian meddling" boils down to the DNC hack. That's their whole case and they can't even prove Russia did it. Have you seen any Congressman provide technical proof it was Russia? Yeah, me neither.

Bottom line: This was a CIA/MI6 coup to overthrow an election. Russia was the scapegoat. The Guardian newspaper in the UK admits it was MI6/GCHQ who got this whole thing started. (Robert Hannigan visited John Brennan and gave him the "intelligence" personally). Interestingly, this "intelligence" on Trump's "Russia contacts" has never been made public. Odd don't you think? Don't you think CNN would love to have that? Isn't it interesting that Hannigan resigned from GCHQ 3 days after Trump was elected? (His operation to stop Trump failed).

Now, did Russia have a hand in snooping around Washington with their diplomats (like they've done for decades) and meddling and gaining influence wherever they could? Sure. But they weren't the instigators of this whole mess. They played an ancillary role at best.

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Money laundering.

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What did Stormy do with the money that has you think that?

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Of course you mean the Republican Party, because all of the players in this thing are Trump’s own appointees.

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Rosenstein was approved 96-4 or 98-2 or some such margin by the Senate. Sessions' vote was strictly along party lines (he barely broke 50%). That tells you all you need to know about how "Republican" Rosenstein is. When you have that many Dems on board, it doesn't bode well for your "conservative" street cred. I would be embarrassed if I were approved by that many far-left Dems.

And, by the way, you know that many Republicans hate Trump, right? Bill Kristol and John McCain, the last time I checked, are both Republicans. There were just as many Republicans as Democrats in Washington who didn't want Trump elected. Neither party wanted their elitist cabal threatened by an outsider. Most of these jokers are one big happy family. It's like the WWE - they fight on TV, but at the end of the day are best buds. We, the American people, are their "marks."

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What election laws is this a violation of? Cohen, by all accounts, did not use campaign money.

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You don’t have to use campaign money in order to violate campaign financing laws. If Cohen paid out of his pocket in order to help Trump’s chances of winning, that could be considered a campaign financing violation. Or if he was considered an agent of the campaign or if a Trump organization’s resources were used to help facilitate the payment (not necessarily the source of the money) then those could be violations.

There are material facts about this payment that aren’t public, but it’s very possible that Cohen committed a criminal act.

I honestly think it's stupid they're investigating Russian interference in a U.S. election, foreign nations interfere/influence other foreign nations' elections all the time and we don't have special counsels appointed and granted a large scope by which to investigate every election cycle because it's essentially a waste of taxpayer money and there are more important things to attend to, collusion is not a crime in this context, there's no "obstruction of justice" as the drive-by media is strenuously portraying Trump's dismissal of Comey as, IDK much about the Cohen thing but it makes zero sense that the feds are even investigating him about the same amount of sense it made for the feds to investigate steroids in MLB and cheating in college basketball, it's the unscrupulous waste of taxpayer money like this and consequent fear it instills in the stock market that explains why I lean right/libertarian on most issues. Too much bullshite and pork.

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Even people on the left have to admit this whole thing is a witch hunt designed to remove a president one party doesn't like. This happened to Bill Clinton to some extent

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SOME extent??

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What election laws is this a violation of? Cohen, by all accounts, did not use campaign money.

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You are not even close to being worth the effort.