The FBI was “extremely professional, courteous and respectful” during the Monday raids on President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, Cohen told CNN Tuesday.
“I am unhappy to have my personal residence and office raided,” Cohen told CNN in a phone call, the network reported. “But I will tell you that members of the FBI that conducted the search and seizure were all extremely professional, courteous and respectful. And I thanked them at the conclusion.”
That’s a more composed response than the President’s. Trump on Monday called the raids “a whole new level of unfairness” and “an attack on our country.”
“I would be lying to you if I told that I am not [worried],” Cohen added to CNN. “Do I need this in my life? No. Do I want to be involved in this? No.”
The raids, he told the network, were “upsetting to say the least.”
CNN reported, without quoting Cohen, that the lawyer said he would have handled the hush money payment to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford differently, though he defended the non-disclosure agreement Clifford signed — which for weeks has been the subject of intense public and legal scrutiny — as lawful.
CNN’s Don Lemon discussed his call with Cohen with network anchor Wolf Blitzer Tuesday. Watch below:
BREAKING: In his first comments since the FBI raid on his home and office, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said the FBI agents "were extremely professional, courteous and respectful," counter to Trump's depiction https://t.co/bCzVXrlz0y pic.twitter.com/QY6v9qkUOO
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) April 10, 2018
Flattery will get you exactly what?
Cohen - “And I thanked them at the conclusion”.
Too bad ICE can’t be bothered to be that way.
At this point, I think Trump believes he is in a race to fire his way down to someone who will fire Mueller for him before Cohen flips on him. I think he’s meeting with Dershowitz and his dream team of halfwits tonight because he wants them to talk him into believing he can survive his very own Stupid Watergate Saturday Night Massacre. And they’re probably stupid enough to do it.