Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, said Trump would not have been guilty of obstructing justice even if he had fired special counsel Robert Mueller because some of the investigators were “questionable.”
“Had he done it, it would not have been obstruction of justice because there were very good reasons to fire Mueller,” Giuliani told “Fox News Sunday.” “Mueller hired a staff in which he had people that I would find very, very questionable as people that should be investigating Donald Trump,” Giuliani said
The former mayor said because of that the probe would have been seen as biased, something that “would give you a good faith reason to fire” Mueller.
In the redacted report released last Thursday by Attorney General William Barr, Trump in June 2017 directs White House counsel Don McGahn to contact deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller.
But McGahn refused and threatened to resign rather than set off a potential “Saturday Night Massacre.”
Giuliani’s comments echo the president’s tweet sent Saturday that once against accused some on Mueller’s team of being “Trump Haters.”
“Despite the fact that the Mueller Report should not have been authorized in the first place & was written as nastily as possible by 13 (18) Angry Democrats who were true Trump Haters, including highly conflicted Bob Mueller himself, the end result is No Collusion, No Obstruction!