'It seems like in part they’re coming after Individual One—the president of the United States,” Chuck Rosenberg said.
Former top Department of Justice official Chuck Rosenberg on Tuesday warned that President Donald Trump “ought to be scared” because special counsel Robert Mueller has “oodles” of information against him and his former attorney and “personal fixer” Michael Cohen.
She continued: “Hundreds of pages of court documents unsealed today in the Michael Cohen case—giving us a rare peek inside the investigation’s earliest phase and offering us tea leaves about what that part of the investigation yielded and what drove the decision to send other Cohen cases to the Southern District of New York where the president has already been identified as Individual One in Michael Cohen’s sentencing memo, and is widely believed to face ongoing legal...
“The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution requires that the government have probable cause to search your home, your business, your office," Rosenberg continued. “Probable cause is the lowest standard in the criminal law, if we want to convict someone at trial, it’s proof beyond a reasonable doubt. If we want to detain them pending trial, it’s clear and convincing evidence.
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