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Donald Trump slams FBI raid on lawyer Michael Cohen, saying ‘attorney–client privilege is dead!’

WATCH: U.S. President Donald Trump continued his tirade Tuesday against the FBI's raid of lawyer Michael Cohen's office on Monday, tweeting "attorney-client privilege is dead" and that it was a "total witch hunt." – Apr 10, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump blasted the FBI’s raid on the office of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, Tuesday morning saying that “attorney–client privilege is dead!”

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On Monday, federal agents seized records on topics including a $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels who claims she had sex with Trump more than a decade ago.

“A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” Trump tweeted.

Angered by the raid, Trump called the move a “disgrace” and that federal agents “broke into” the office of his personal attorney. He also called special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation “an attack on our country.”

READ MORE: Donald Trump livid after FBI raids offices of his lawyer Michael Cohen

Both Trump and Cohen have denied Daniels’ claim.

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WATCH: Trump calls FBI raid a ‘disgraceful situation’ and ‘witch hunt’

“It’s a disgrace. It’s frankly a real disgrace. It’s an attack on our country in a true sense,” Trump told reporters Monday. “It’s an attack on what we all stand for. So when I saw this, when I heard it, I heard it like you did, I said ‘that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness.'”

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Asked whether he would fire Mueller, Trump said “we’ll see what happens.”

WATCH: The FBI has raided the offices of President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen. The agents reportedly seized multiple documents.

Trump can’t fire Mueller directly. But he could order Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel’s probe, to end it.

WATCH: ‘We’ll see’: Trump doesn’t rule out firing Mueller following FBI raids

–with a file from the Associated Press

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