President Trump raged on Twitter Sunday morning over his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, as well as how the FBI has treated him in a range of investigations into his activities before and during his White House tenure.
Trump called Cohen, his former fixer, a “rat” and said the FBI’s raid of Cohen’s office would have been “absolutely unthinkable” and “unheard of” before the bureau began its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The FBI raided Cohen’s New York office and hotel room 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.
On Twitter Sunday, 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 to servers believed by the U.S. intelligence community to have been hacked by Russia.
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Remember, Michael Cohen only became a “Rat” after the FBI did something which was absolutely unthinkable & unheard of until the Witch Hunt was illegally started. They BROKE INTO AN ATTORNEY’S OFFICE! Why didn’t they break into the DNC to get the Server, or Crooked’s office?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on charges they hacked the Democrats’ computers and eventually released the files in order to interfere in the 2016 election.
Trump has repeatedly suggested the DNC attempted some kind of cover-up when it decided not to turn over its server to the FBI. The DNC instead hired a private security firm to investigate the hacking.
