Trump Assails FBI Raid on His Lawyer’s Office as ‘Disgraceful’
- Cohen paid $130,000 to Stormy Daniels in ‘hush agreement’
- Raid signals criminal probe by FBI, but its target is unclear
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President Donald Trump condemned as “disgraceful” an FBI raid on the office and hotel room of his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who paid $130,000 to an adult-film actress and who has been a key figure in the U.S. investigation into Russian election meddling.
Trump, speaking Monday to reporters at the White House, defended Cohen as a “good man” and blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe as “an attack on our country, in a true sense.” The president said agents “broke into” Cohen’s office in midtown Manhattan, even though a federal judge had to approve the search warrants used by the FBI.