who orderde the fbi raid on trumps lawyer

Did FBI raid Trump lawyer but not Clinton lawyer’s office?

A double standard was at play in the FBI's raid of the office of Donald Trump's lawyer but not Bill Clinton's. A popular meme in March 2019 questioned why Bill Clinton had “paid Paula Jones $850K to go away” yet the FBI hadn’t raided his lawyer’s office.

Why did the FBI raid Michael Cohen’s office?

All in all, events proved the FBI had good reason to raid Cohen’s office, as they gathered evidence of multiple federal crimes (beyond just campaign finance violations) to which Cohen pleaded guilty.

Was Bill Clinton’s lawyer involved in the Jones lawsuit?

Nothing Clinton did in settling Jones’ civil lawsuit was illegal (or even potentially illegal), but Trump’s payment of hush money to Daniels through his lawyer was possibly an illegal act on the part of Trump and/or Cohen, hence the raid on the latter’s office but not the office of Clinton’s lawyer.

Who was the judge who made the disclosure of Michael Cohen's home and office?

U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III made the disclosure as he agreed to release in several weeks some court documents related to the search warrant that authorized last April’s FBI raids on Cohen’s home and office. Media organizations had requested access to the records.

Who was involved in the unseal of the documents?

News organizations in the legal action to unseal the documents included The New York Times, The Associated Press, and the parent companies of ABC and CBS News, CNN, the Daily News, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday and the New York Post.

A meme presents a false equivalency between presidential payoffs to women made in completely different cases 20 years apart

A double standard was at play in the FBI's raid of the office of Donald Trump's lawyer but not Bill Clinton's.

The Clinton-Jones Case

On 6 May 1994, Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton just days before the statute of limitations would have expired.

The Trump-Daniels Case

Porn actress Daniels (the stage name of Stephanie Clifford) said she first met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada in July 2006. The two engaged in sex in Trump’s hotel room, she claimed, and continued an “intimate relationship” into the following year.

Conclusion

All in all, events proved the FBI had good reason to raid Cohen’s office, as they gathered evidence of multiple federal crimes (beyond just campaign finance violations) to which Cohen pleaded guilty.