Trump: Cohen raid is a 'whole new level of unfairness'

President Trump called the FBI raiding the office and hotel room of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday "a disgraceful situation" and "an attack on our country in a true sense."

The agents seized records about Cohen's clients, The Washington Post reports, including documents related to the $130,000 payment Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Cohen's attorney, Stephen Ryan, said the raid, carried out under a warrant obtained by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, is related to an investigation referred by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and Trump jumped on this, calling the special counsel "the most conflicted group of people I have ever seen" and claiming FBI agents "broke" into Cohen's office.

The raid is a "whole new level of unfairness," Trump continued, and a "witch hunt." He also criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, which ultimately led to the hiring of Mueller, and then mentioned multiple times that Hillary Clinton and her emails should be investigated again.

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