Trump Fumes on Twitter: 'Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead'
The morning after an FBI raid on his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Tuesday to continue venting his anger about it.
He began by asserting that "attorney-client privilege is dead" and, in a second tweet, again decried the raid as "A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!"
Trump's reactions have revived fears he might do the unthinkable and fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
In an eight-minute diatribe on Monday evening that ranked as one of the president's most vivid public responses to an investigation that has embroiled top aides and allies, Trump blasted the early-morning raid targeting Cohen as "disgraceful" and an "attack on our country." Few people outside his family are closer to Trump than Cohen.
The frustration betrayed concern by the president about an inquiry that has now reached deep into his inner circle, and threatened to return focus to the sordid story of a $130,000 payment Cohen made weeks before the 2016 election to a porn actress who said she had an affair with Trump.
His singling out — by name — of top Justice Department officials after the raid raised speculation that he may undertake a historic purge of law enforcement officials, a move that would draw bipartisan condemnation and amplify the stakes of an investigation that is broadening in ways that could imperil the Trump presidency.
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