One of President Trump’s attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, told reporters Saturday he didn’t know the status of three Americans imprisoned in North Korea and…
One of President Trump’s attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, told reporters Saturday he didn’t know the status of three Americans imprisoned in North Korea and backtracked on comments he’d made that they were being released Thursday.
The reversal is the latest from Giuliani, who over the last few days has tried to clear up his comments about payments made to a former adult film star to silence her claims of an affair with Trump.
Speaking with reporters at the Iran Freedom Convention for Democracy and Human Rights on Saturday afternoon, Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, offered a range of comments on the Iran nuclear deal, how to gain peace in the Middle East and North Korea.
He told reporters, « I don’t know the status » of the three men held in North Korea and added, « the less said about it right now, the better. »
« I’m praying it will get done, » he told reporters. « They’re working on it. I’m not privy to what they’re doing. I’m reading the newspapers like you are. »
The comments were a significant shift from his remarks Thursday on Fox & Friends, where he said they’d be released that very day.
“We got (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un impressed enough to be releasing three prisoners today,” Giuliani said then.
The White House later walked back the claims on Thursday but did not dismiss them altogether. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters she could not « confirm the validity of the reports » that a release was imminent.
« We certainly would see this as a sign of goodwill if North Korea were to release the three Americans ahead of discussions between President Trump and President Kim Jong Un, » Sanders said.
