Trump attacks Michael Cohen as a 'rat' and ramps up FBI criticism
by Caitlin Yilek
| December 16, 2018 10:58 AM
President Trump raged on Twitter Sunday morning over his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen and treatment by the FBI in a range of probes into his activities before and during his White House tenure.
Trump attacked his former fixer, calling him a “rat,†and said the FBI raiding the one-time Trump Organization attorney’s office “was absolutely unthinkable†and “unheard of,†before the bureau began its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The FBI raided Cohen’s office and hotel room in New York in April, seizing business records, emails, and documents related to Trump. Cohen on Wednesday was sentenced to three years in prison for bank and tax fraud crimes, including campaign finance violations related to Trump. In the months since the raid, Cohen has turned intensely critical of his former boss.
In his tweet, Trump also questioned why the FBI never broke into the Democratic National Committee offices or those of his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, to get servers believed by the U.S. intelligence community of having been hacked by Russia.
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