Rudy Giuliani on Saturday threatened to take special counsel Robert Mueller to court if he attempts to issue a subpoena against President Trump. «If…
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday threatened to take special counsel Robert Mueller to court if he attempts to issue a subpoena against President Trump.
«If Mueller tries to subpoena us, we’re going to court,» Giuliani said in an interview with ABC News .
Giuliani’s warning arrived just hours after The New York Times revealed that President Trump lawyers sent special counsel Robert Mueller a 20-page letter back in January arguing that he couldn’t obstruct justice.
The confidential letter obtained by the Times argues that the Constitution gives the president the broad authority to, «if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon.»
Though the letter predates Giuliani’s involvement with Trump’s legal team, the president’s longtime lawyer verified its contents to ABC News, adding that the legal strategy the letter outlines remains to be upheld.
The Times was the first to report on the existence of the letter, although the president appeared to foreshadow the newspaper’s scoop minutes before it was published on Saturday. Trump questioned whether Mueller’s office or the Justice Department had leaked his legal team’s letter to the media.
«There was No Collusion with Russia (except by the Democrats),» Trump tweeted shortly before the Times story was published.
«When will this very expensive Witch Hunt Hoax ever end? So bad for our Country. Is the Special Counsel/Justice Department leaking my lawyers letters to the Fake News Media? Should be looking at Dems corruption instead?»
