Stormy Daniels lawyer to Trump: What’s dead is using attorney-client privilege to hide illegal acts

Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti said on Tuesday morning that attorney-client privilege is not dead, as President Trump had stated in a tweet earlier in the day.

I use the attorney-client privilege. I know the attorney-client privilege. The attorney-client privilege is a friend of mine. And the attorney-client privilege is not dead. What is dead is using the privilege to hide illegal acts. And that has been dead for a long time. #basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 10, 2018

“What is dead is using the privilege to hide illegal acts,” Avenatti wrote in a tweet. “And that has been dead for a long time.”

Earlier on Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted that “attorney-client privilege is dead” after it was reported that the FBI raided the office and hotel room of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday.

Attorney–client privilege is dead!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018

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The president also called the raid a “witch hunt.”

A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018

The prosecutors obtained a warrant to search Cohen’s office and hotel after special counsel Robert Mueller, who is currently investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, gave them a referral.

Avenatti said that the FBI raid shows that Cohen and Trump “are in a lot of trouble” and argued that the raid was part of a “search for the truth” and not a witch hunt.

To those that scoffed when we filed this case and claimed it was all about $: As we predicted and as the FBI raid shows, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump are in a lot of trouble. It has ALWAYS been about the threats, cover-up and the lies that have been told to the American people. #basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 10, 2018

A well-regarded Republican appointed US Atty obtaining valid search warrants, approved by a judge, that are then then carried out by career, upstanding FBI agents doing their job to search for the truth is NOT A WITCH HUNT. Period. #basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 10, 2018

Avenatti is representing Daniels as she works to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed with Cohen that was meant to keep her silent about an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2006 in exchange for $130,000.