DEMS/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s use of the word ‘rat’ to attack his former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is more evocative of a ‘mob boss’ than of a president, a Democratic senator said Monday [12-17-18]. Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, painted Trump’s claims that the FBI ‘broke into’ Cohen’s office earlier this year — though the bureau had a warrant to do so — as a clear attempt to undermine law enforcement and mislead Americans about the various investigations into the president’s dealings…Spokespeople for the president did not immediately return an email seeking a response to Coons’ remarks. In April, the FBI conducted a raid on Cohen’s office and his apartment in Manhattan, carrying out a search warrant that had been approved by a federal judge. Cohen, once a staunch Trump loyalist, came under the microscope as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible coordination between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russians looking to influence the 2016 election.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Coons: Trump sounds ‘more like a mob boss than president’ with Cohen attacks,” Politico, December 17, 2018 9:29 am