Factbox - Does attorney-client privilege apply to Trump lawyer raid?


  • World
  • Wednesday, 11 Apr 2018

The outside of the Loews Regency Hotel is seen in New York, U.S., April 9, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has assailed the Monday raid by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on the New York offices and home of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, complaining on Twitter on Tuesday that "attorney-client privilege is dead!"

Federal prosecutors in New York obtained search warrants following a referral of evidence from Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. Trump has denied colluding with Russia and has repeatedly called Mueller's probe a "witch hunt."

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