A lawyer for President Donald Trump slammed the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller for a late-July raid by federal agents of Paul Manafort’s home.
John Dowd, a top Trump attorney, accused the special counsel investigators of “gross abuse of the judicial process” for conducting the raid, according to an email obtained by Fox News.
Paul Manafort is Trump’s former campaign manager. He was cooperating with investigators and appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee the day before the raid.
Mueller’s office never requested any documents before requesting a warrant to search Manafort’s home, raising questions about the actual intent of the raid, according to Dowd.
“These failures by Special Counsel to exhaust less intrusive methods is a fatal flaw in the warrant process and would call for a Motion to Suppress the fruits of the search,” Dowd wrote.
