President Trump was clearly angry with the FBI’s Monday raid on the office and hotel room of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen—so angry, in fact, he spoke extemporaneously about his frustration to the White House press corps just before his Monday evening meeting with defense and military leaders. Blaming the special counsel investigation headed by Robert Mueller, Trump called the raid—executed by the U.S. attorney’s office in New York City under warrants issued by a judge—a “whole new level of unfairness,” a “disgrace,” and an “attack on our country.”
“So I just heard they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys,” Trump said, unprompted, at the start of his meeting “It’s a disgraceful situation. It’s a total witch hunt. I’ve been saying it for a long time. I’ve wanted to keep it down. I’ve given over a million pages in documents to the special counsel. They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria, we’re talking about a lot of serious things…and I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now. Actually it’s much more than that. You could say right after I won the nomination it started.”
