--- title: Donald Trump Tweets Rant Over Michael Cohen Raid description: President Donald Trump continued to seethe over the FBI raid of his longtime attorney Michael Cohen, expressing his displeasure on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/5234433/donald-trump-tweets-michael-cohen-raid/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-10T12:26:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T19:55:24.310Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Continues to Seethe Over Michael Cohen Raid og:description: "Attorney–client privilege is dead!" og:url: https://time.com/5234433/donald-trump-tweets-michael-cohen-raid/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c65228329f03e3e/6988cd52cd1bba819c70531b/michael-cohen-lawyer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Meetings At Trump Tower og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Continues to Seethe Over Michael Cohen Raid twitter:description: "Attorney–client privilege is dead!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c65228329f03e3e/6988cd52cd1bba819c70531b/michael-cohen-lawyer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'A Total Witch Hunt.' President Trump's Anger Over Michael Cohen Raid Continues With Early-Morning Tweets  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 10, 2018 12:26 PM UTC  Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump, and former Texas Governor Rick Perry at Trump Tower, Dec. 12, 2016 in New York City. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump, and former Texas Governor Rick Perry at Trump Tower, Dec. 12, 2016 in New York City.Drew Angerer—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 10, 2018 12:26 PM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5234238/donald-trump-syria-michael-cohen/) continued to seethe Tuesday morning over the[ FBI raid](http://fortune.com/2018/04/09/fbi-raid-michael-cohen-donald-trump/) of his longtime attorney Michael Cohen, expressing his displeasure in a pair of tweets. “Attorney Client privilege is dead!” Trump tweeted shortly after 7 a.m. “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” Cohen’s attorney Stephen Ryan said Monday that the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York had executed several search warrants to seize communication between Cohen and Cohen’s clients, and that the warrants were partially because of a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Ryan categorized the search as “completely inappropriate and unnecessary,” arguing that it resulted “in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662868540346371) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662953894436864) While Trump did not mention [Cohen](http://time.com/5234110/michael-cohen-fbi-raid-stormy-daniels/) or the raid by name, the reference to his personal attorney was clear: On Monday night, Trump railed against the situation, calling it “disgraceful” and calling the special counsel’s office biased and politically motivated. “These people have the biggest conflicts of interest I have ever seen,” he said at a meeting of military advisers Trump had called to address a suspected chemical gas attack in Syria.”Democrats — all. Either Democrats or a couple of Republicans who worked for President Obama. They’re not looking at the other side — Hillary Clinton… all of the crimes that were committed, all of the things that happened that everybody is very angry about from the Republican side and the independent side. They only keep looking at us.” Trump also declined to rule out the possibility of firing Mueller on Monday night. “We’ll see what happens,” he said. “Many people have said you should fire him.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5234433/donald-trump-tweets-michael-cohen-raid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5234433/donald-trump-tweets-michael-cohen-raid/"},"headline":"'A Total Witch Hunt.' 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