A meeting was held in Trump Tower involving individuals associated with the campaign and a Russian who, according to an email, had information obtained by the Russian government that would assist the campaign.
The Special Counsel was appointed to investigate, among other things, “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.” Thus, it should come as no surprise that the Special Counsel would seek, obtain and execute a search warrant to get records belonging to one of the participants in the Trump Tower meeting to see if those records show the existence of any “link” or “coordination” between the campaign and the Russian government.
Yes, the lawyers’ job is to file anything and everything and bill Manafort. Coming clean would mean far fewer billable hours, so don’t expect that to happen.
Anyone reading this comment please download and listen the Slate’s “Slow Burn” Watergate series. As a political news junk who lived through every minute of that scandal, it was a new fact that an FBI agent called a CREEP secretary/bookkeeper to ask about the burglars’ serial numbered cash. She met him and gave him the financials showing the entirety of all the illegal payments. Slate interviewed the FBI agent who was pissed- he did all the leg work, but Winwood and Bernstein reported it the Post and became " Woodward and Bernstein".
The heads of the campaign are provided an invitation to collude with a hostile foreign power to disseminate illegally obtained private communications. Instead of contacting the FBI, as they had been instructed to do, the campaign accepts the invitation and sits down in a meeting with those who provided the invitation. The acceptance of this invitation is clear and unequivocal evidence of collusion. Of course the participants in the meeting now claim that the meeting did not involve the original stated purpose of criminal collusion. And we are somehow supposed to believe this.
So in keeping with the principle articulated by another Russian writer: The pee pee tape has been referred to in Act I of this drama. Doesn’t that mean it has to be revealed in the final act?
normalizing criminal behavior is what Trump and the Manaforts will be remembered for.
Trump’s kids will be the lost generation, unable to earn an honest dollar, because they were taught from their
dad that if you put on a suit and pay a lawyer to obstruct, dodge weave, make noise you likely will get away with illegal activity.