re: #1 KGxvi

My gut tells me that there’s more to this than “the president had some affairs before he got into office.” This was apparently run through the financial crimes division of the FBI in NYC. I’m guessing the guys and gals in that unit aren’t much the types that fuck around.

Exactly. Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney who signed off on these warrants was Giuliani’s law partner, donated the maximum personal amount to both Trump’s primary & general election campaigns and was appointed directly by Trump. The only reason a guy like that green-lights something like this is because there’s so much overwhelming evidence backing it up that to choose not to would eventually lead to criminal corruption / obstruction charges against him.