Kathy Griffin Reportedly Questioned by Secret Service – Celebrity News

Although the comedian, 56, has yet to publicly comment on the alleged meeting, she hinted in a tweet on Tuesday, June 27, that she was under federal investigation.

“Hey, I don’t give a F anymore,” Griffin shared along with a link to a Think Progress article calling out TMZ for their “positive coverage” of Trump. “@TMZ & Harvey Levin may u NEVER b under fed investigation like I am now.”

“We’re going to fully cooperate with the Secret Service in their investigation,” said Dmitry Gorin, a Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney hired by Griffin. “She basically exercised her First Amendment rights to tell a joke. When you look at everything in the media, all the times entertainers make videos or express themselves in other ways, you’ve seen an entertainer, let alone a comedian, be subject to a criminal investigation.”

Added a tearful Griffin, “I don’t think I will have a career after this. I’m going to be honest. He broke me.”

Griffin has since been fired from her CNN New Year’s Eve gig, and has had multiple shows and endorsement deals, including one with toilet footstool company Squatty Potty, canceled.

However, despite the backlash she has received for mocking Trump, Griffin remained resolute in her contempt for the commander in chief. “I’m not afraid of Donald Trump,” she noted at the time. “He’s a bully. I’ve felt with older white guys trying to keep me down my whole life, my whole career.”

Many politicians across the aisle have spoken out against Griffin’s controversial May photo shoot.

“Our politics have become too base, too low, and two vulgar, but Kathy Griffin’s post descends into an even more repugnant and vile territory,” tweeted Mitt Romney, former Republican governor of Massachusetts.

Griffin’s former CNN New Year’s Eve Live cohost, Anderson Cooper, also expressed his disapproval. “For the record, I am appalled by the photoshoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate,” he tweeted at the time. 

Us Weekly has reached out to Griffin’s lawyer for comment.

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