When Your Lawyer Needs A Lawyer, It's Not Good

Frito Corleone is beside himself with anger because the FBI got a search warrant and removed material from the office, home, and hotel suite of Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer.  The Deplorable Don immediately vented his spleen with copious amounts of Grade A bullshit lies, on camera and on Twitter.  He called it a disgrace.  Cohen's attorney called the use of a search warrant unnecessary.

To briefly correct the record, it was not technically a raid, they did not break in, attorney-client privilege is not dead, it was not an attack on our country, it's not a witch hunt, and it was completely fair -- it was search warrant approved at multiple levels (by Republicans!) and executed legally.  The disgrace is our fake president.  And a search warrant was necessary because without it, it's just a request for records and Cohen would claim client privilege on everything and would turn over nothing.

To successfully obtain a search warrant on a lawyer -- any lawyer -- is not easy.  It's kind of a big deal.

When it's a federal warrant and the search of the lawyer's office is conducted by the FBI, it's a bigger deal.

When that lawyer happens to be the personal attorney for the president of the United States, it's a yuuge deal!

And when the president's lawyer needs a lawyer, well, it's just not good at all.  The fixer is in a fix -- up the well-known creek without a paddle.

Some Trumpanzees are complaining that Michael Cohen is being treated "like a mob lawyer."  It's an apt analogy.