Obscured and nearly lost in a whirlwind of events—the release of snippets from former FBI Director James Comey’s blame-it-all-on-others tell-all, the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the firing of former FBI executive Andrew McCabe, the allied air-strikes on Syria—the week of April 9 started off with an event that has significantly diminished one of the pillars of American constitutional democracy.In the pre-dawn hours of Monday, April 9, federal police executed no-knock warrants on the office, home, hotel room, and safe deposit box of ... a major drug cartel boss? A kingpin of La Cosa Nostra? A terrorist mastermind? No, rather they were on an attorney in private practice, Michael Cohen, whose primary client is, and has been for years, Donald J. Trump.
