JULY 21, 2018 / 8:33 AM / UPDATED 6 MINUTES AGO

Trump says 'perhaps illegal' for lawyer to tape client

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said that it was “perhaps illegal” for a lawyer to record a client, a day after reports his onetime attorney had recorded them both discussing buying the rights to a story by a woman who said she had an affair with Trump.

“Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) - almost unheard of,” Trump tweeted, in a possible reference to an FBI raid on the office of his former lawyer Michael Cohen in April.

“Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client - totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!” Trump added.

Reporting by Andrew Heavens

https:// www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-trump/trump-says-perhaps-illegal-for-lawyer-to-tape-client-idUSKBN1KB0FF