New York

FBI raids Trump lawyer’s office: In a dramatic escalation of President Trump’s legal woes, FBI agents raided the New York office of his long-time personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday, and seized “privileged communications” between Cohen and his clients. Cohen’s own lawyer said the warrant for the raid was obtained by federal prosecutors in New York following a referral by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. According to The New York Times, which broke the news of the raid, the FBI agents seized documents relating to a payment of $130,000, which Cohen has acknowledged paying to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Trump called the raid on his lawyer’s office a “disgrace”, a “witch hunt” and an “attack on our country”.