Washington Post: An increasing number of Americans see the FBI as biased against Trump
This is an argument you might not expect from attorneys representing Michael Cohen, the attorney who represents President Trump.
Appointing a third party to review material seized from Cohen in an FBI raid last week “will protect the integrity of the Government’s investigation from the toxic partisan politics of the day and attacks on the impartiality of the Justice Department,” a letter from Cohen’s legal team on Monday read. Earlier, the letter noted that “there is a growing public debate about whether criminal and congressional investigations by the government are being undertaken impartially, free of any political bias or partisan motivation.”
In court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas McKay was incredulous: Those “toxic partisan politics” were being driven by Cohen and his client. McKay noted that there were three parties involved in the Cohen dispute — the state, Cohen and Trump — and that only two of those parties had responded to the raid with “inflammatory comments.” Cohen, he argued, was trying to “drum up media attention” and then point to that media attention as a reason to remove the government from the process of evaluating the material seized from Cohen.
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WNU Editor: The FBI has not handled itself well since the U.S. Presidential campaign .... and I suspect that with the passage of time and with more revelations on FBI conduct (and misconduct) becoming known, these FBI poll numbers are only going to get worse.
