President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani on Monday dismissed the report that the White House wasn’t truthful last summer, when it denied that Trump dictated the statement about the reported meeting between his son and a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, despite Trump now saying he did.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Giuliani why he thought Trump’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “chose to lie” about the President’s involvement in crafting the statement about the meeting at Trump Tower.
“You think maybe somebody could’ve made a mistake?” Giuliani retorted.
“Why is it always that somebody — you think that Jay Sekulow lied?” he continued. “Maybe he just got it wrong, like I got a few things wrong at the beginning of the investigation.”
Sekulow last July said that the President had no involvement with the statement.
Sanders hinted last August that Trump may have given bits of advice on the statement “as any father would,” but denied that he dictated it.
Giuliani remarks came shortly after The New York Times reported that Trump’s lawyers wrote to special counsel Robert Mueller in January emphasizing the President’s power over Mueller’s investigation.
According to The Times, in the letter it was also acknowledged that Trump was the one who dictated the statement about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.
Although Sanders was faced with a series of questions on Monday about the new development, she declined to answer any of them.
Giuliani attracted the attention on Sunday when he said that the President has the power to pardon himself, but he added that doing so would probably lead to impeachment.
On Monday, the former New York City mayor was asked if he was worried that his decision to represent Trump was tarnishing his legacy.
“Every night I stay up all night worried about that,” he said sarcastically.
“No, I have a clear conscience. I’m doing my job as a lawyer,” he continued. “I am a lawyer and it’s my job to defend my client. I’m proud of what I’m doing. I’m proud of my client.”
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