Jeez, It’s the Feds!: The FBI yesterday raided the offices and hotel room of  President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, seizing a variety of business records, emails, and documents, including those related to the $130,000 in hush money paid to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels.

Cohen is living in a hotel while his apartment is renovated.

The US attorney in New York and the FBI appeared acted upon information given to them by Special Counsel Robert Mueller because it was outside the scope of his investigation into Russian election influencing.

Getting a warrant to break attorney-client privilege requires a higher level of scrutiny than an average search warrant. It would take some compelling evidence of a crime.

Speaking to reporters hours later, an angry President Trump called the raids an “attack on our country in a true sense.” He railed on about how there’s been no investigation of “the other side,” meaning Hillary Clinton, and said, “I just think it’s a disgrace that a thing like this can happen.”

Trump rambled on about Deputy Atty. General Rod Rosenstein and the possibility of firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He finished with, “This is a pure and simple witch hunt.”

The NY Times’ Maggie Haberman tweeted, “Trump is angrier than he has been at any point in the many fuming news cycles, according to two people close to him.”

Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said, “Today, the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients.”

To anyone’s knowledge, Cohen has only one client, President Donald Trump.

Trigger Finger: If his lawyer hadn’t been raided, Trump’s decision on what to do about the Syrian chemical attack would be at the top of the news. Trump is weighing military action and considering punishing Russia and Iran as well. “If it’s Russia, if it’s Syria, if it’s Iran, if it’s all of them together, we’ll figure it out and we’ll know the answers quite soon,” he told reporters at the opening of a cabinet meeting. “So we’re looking at that very strongly and very seriously.”

The Russia Thing: The special counsel is investigating a $150,000 payment a Ukrainian steel billionaire made to President Trump’s foundation for a 20-minute video talk Trump made during the election campaign, The NY Times reports. It’s connected to the examination of foreign money that went to Trump and his associates in the years leading to the election.

In response to a subpoena, the Trump Organization handed over documents about a $150,000 donation  the Ukrainian billionaire, Victor Pinchuk, made in September 2015 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for the video link to a conference in Kiev.

Political Turn: White voters over the age of 60 with college degrees have done a political turnaround, now favoring Democrats over Republicans for Congress by a 2-point margin, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll taken during the first three months of the year. During the same three months in 2016, that group favored Republicans for Congress by 10 percentage points.

The switch threatens Republican control of the House, and possibly even the Senate, which would be harder for the Democrats to win.

A Billion Here, A Billion There: The federal debt is on track to reach crisis proportions by 2028, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The annual deficit is expected to hit $1 trillion in 2020 despite economic growth, according to the CBO. The overall federal debt is now $21 trillion and at the current rate would balloon to $33 billion.

Some economists warn that a debt that big will drive up interest rates, depress stock prices, and slow the economy, driving the deficit even higher.

The Spy Game: Yulia Skripal, the daughter of the Russian double agent who was poisoned in a nerve agent attack alongside her father, has been released from the hospital and taken to a secure location, her doctors said.

Her father Sergei, 66, is reported to be awake and alert but recovering more slowly.

Births: Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs as an Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, yesterday became the first US senator to give birth while in office. The 50-year-old Duckworth has established a string of firsts in her career. She is also the first disabled woman elected to Congress and the first born in Thailand. And, not a record, but how about having a baby at 50?

The Darwin Report: A man in Cooperstown, NY landed in the hospital after eating the world’s hottest pepper in a pepper eating contest. It’s called a Carolina Reaper.

A substance called capsaicin in the pepper caused the arteries in the man’s head and neck to constrict, giving him waves of what are called “thunderclap” headaches. Take two aspirin and don’t eat anything with the word “reaper” in the name.

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