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I Don’t Buy It

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April 9, 2018 10:50 p.m.
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This is simply a hunch. But I don’t buy the suggestion that these raids today are about the Stormy Daniels case – not mainly, certainly not solely. The purported crimes simply lack the magnitude to require such aggressive action or tangling with privileged lawyer-client communication. They also lack the urgency.

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