Giuliani leaning against Trump meeting Mueller
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he’s leaning against making the president available for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
“Not after the way they’ve acted,” Giuliani said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “I came into this case with the desire to do that, and they just keep convincing me not to do it.”
“Every lawyer in America thinks he’d be a fool to testify, Giuliani said, adding that Trump in the end might do that. But Giuliani repeated a call for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to shut down the special counsel investigation once and for all.
Giuliani spoke after days of a shifting narrative about the hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
He said the payment, made by Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen to the adult film actress in 2016 and later repaid by the president, didn’t violate campaign finance law. Giuliani didn’t rule out other, similar payments on behalf of Trump.
His comments came after he indicated on Fox Thursday that Cohen paid $130,000 to Daniels to ensure that her alleged affair with Trump more than a decade ago didn’t become public weeks before the election.
“Imagine if that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the, you know, last debate with Hillary Clinton,” Giuliani, said on Fox on Thursday. “Cohen didn’t even ask. Cohen made it go away. He did his job.”
