‘Chilling Effect’ Seen in ‘Outrageous and Unprecedented’ Raid on Trump Lawyer

Lifezette Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.

“Outrageous and unprecedented” raids by the FBI on the home, office and hotel room of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, will have “a chilling effect” on the chief executive, attorney Harmeet Dhillon warned Monday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

Dhillon, founder of the Dhillon Law Group Inc. and Republican National Committeewoman for California, said it was “outrageous” for the FBI to seize “any attorney’s communications with his client. This is outrageous and unprecedented.”

Dhillon added that the FBI is “giving extraordinary attention to this. But the other thing is, the president is exposed right now because he’s missing one of his lawyers, and he’s been looking to hire a new counsel. Who wants to be the lawyer who has their life disrupted because they happened to represent a client — and whether it’s the president or not — who’s in the crosshairs of the FBI?”

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Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.