ALL LAWYERS ‘ DEFLATED’ BY FBI RAID: TRUMP
Washington, April 16: President Donald Trump said on Monday that all lawyers are now “deflated and concerned” by the FBI raid on his personal attorney Michael Cohen, who is under criminal investigation for personal business dealings.
“Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past,” he tweeted. “I have many ( too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned!”
The raid carried out last Monday at Mr Cohen’s apartment, hotel room, office and safety deposit box sought bank records, records on his dealing in the taxi industry, communications with the Trump campaign and information on payments he made in 2016 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
One of Trump’s lawyers, Joanna Hendon, filed papers late on Sunday asking a federal judge to block prosecutors from studying material seized in the raid until Mr Cohen and the president have both had a chance to review those materials and argue which are subject to attorney- client privilege. — AP Mr
in which he details his interactions with the Republican president.
“I think he’s morally unfit to be President,” Comey said, in his first televised interview since being fired in May last year.
The former federal prosecutor pointed to how Trump “talks about and treats women like they’re pieces of meat” and “lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it.”
“Values matter,” Comey said. “This President does not reflect the values of this country.”
Mr Comey also said that serving in Trump’s administration poses a serious ethical dilemma.
“The challenge of this President is that he will stain everyone around him,” he told ABC, which aired an edited version of the interview but published a full transcript.
“And the question is, how much stain is too much stain and how much stain eventually