Informant ‘Very Close’ to Trump May Have Tipped FBI: Ex-Chief of Staff

Trump lawyer refutes claims of an informant, says 'I'll believe it when I see it'

Mick Mulvaney (R) listens as then-President Donald Trump meets with members of the Republican Study Committee at the White House in Washington, U.S. on March 17, 2017. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Former White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said that someone close to President Donald Trump may have tipped off the FBI before its raid Monday.

When asked by a CNN reporter Thursday about whether a person in “Trump’s orbit” tipped off the FBI and knew where documents at Mar-a-Lago were, Mulvaney said that person would have been “really close” to the former president.