Is Trump Worried About the Manafort Raid?

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-trump-worried-about-the-manafort-raid

President Trump’s lawyer John Dowd allegedly sent an email to The Wall Street Journal in which he said, among other things, that the raid on Paul Manafort’s home was a gross abuse of power. The FBI definitely used aggressive tactics. I said as much yesterday. But the part that jumps out to me is that Dowd is threatening to make a motion to have the fruits of the search suppressed.

According to Fox News, Dowd said this: “These failures by Special Counsel to exhaust less intrusive methods is a fatal flaw in the warrant process and would call for a Motion to Suppress the fruits of the search…”

This seems highly irregular on a few fronts, both legally and politically. To state the obvious, Paul Manafort is not Dowd’s client. Dowd is Donald Trump’s lawyer. So it’s not even clear to me he would have standing to make a motion to suppress this evidence, let alone an interest in doing so that the President would want to be admitting publicly. He might have standing if the evidence ended up being used against Dowd’s client, Donald Trump. But is that true? And is it something Dowd wants to be admitting?

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OOPS.

Edited to add:

Now there is some doubt as to whether the email to WSJ reporters is real - WSJ reporters say they never got any such email.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. The Stain in Trump's white pants just got much wilder.

[leftynyc]

2. What I suspect happened

since the raid happened the day after Manafort testified, is that they KNOW he lied during his testimony (likely from some intercepted phone calls) and thought he would destroy evidence so they HAD to do a quick, no knock raid. Dowd didn't think this through before whining about it.