Giuliani: Mueller needs to ‘man up’ and decide on Trump subpoena; adds Mueller won’t pull ‘a Comey’

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sensitive to ‘to not doing another Comey’ as the November election approaches, President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday.

He also charged the investigative team to ‘man up’ and decide whether or not to subpoena the president. 

The former New York City mayor has argued Mueller will wrap up his part of the investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed the Russian investigation by September 1, in order not to affect the Republican Party at the ballot box in November.

Giuliani told ABC News on Sunday he believes Mueller is still aiming for that deadline. 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sensitive to ‘to not doing another Comey’ as the November election approaches, President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday

Democrats charge former FBI director James Comey's re-opening of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation hurt her at the ballot box in 2016

Democrats charge former FBI director James Comey’s re-opening of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation hurt her at the ballot box in 2016

‘I believe he is, because of the midterm elections. He’s as sensitive as everybody to not doing another Comey and interfering horribly in the election. I don’t think it had as big an impact as some people think, but they have a right to think that,’ he said. 

Giuliani also said it’s an ‘open question’ as to whether Trump will testify before the special counsel’s investigative team. 

And he demanded Mueller’s team ‘man up’ and make a decision on whether subpoena Trump.

He argued Trump’s team has provided more than a million documents and made other witnesses available.  

‘You’ve got everything you need. What do you need us for?,’ he said. ‘So come on, man up and make your decision.’

Former FBI director James Comey reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server in the last days of the 2016 presidential race – a move Democrats blamed for costing her the election. The FBI ultimately found no evidence wrongdoing.  

And former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told ‘Fox News Sunday’ that Trump’s legal team will ‘take it to court’ if Mueller subpoenas the president as part of the Russia probe.

‘They will take it to court, and I believe the court’s going to be on the president’s side on this,’ Lewandowski said. 

Simply closing one aspect of his probe doesn’t mean Mueller would finished with his complete examination of Russia’s actions in the 2016 contest. It is one piece in the large puzzle Mueller and his team are untangling.

This part of the probe was sparked by Trump’s request to Comey, as relayed by the former FBI director, for the agency to end its investigation into his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

Mueller is examining that allegation to determine whether Trump had criminal intent to obstruct the Russia investigation. 

Giuliani portrayed that part of the probe as a contest of Trump vs. Comey as to who has more credibility – the sitting president of the United States or the top former domestic intelligence chief.

‘We want the concentration of this to be on Comey versus the president’s credibility, and I think we win that and people get that,’ Giuliani told the New York Times in May. 

Mueller should investigate Comey for perjury and for his role in having information leaked to the Times about memos he wrote on his meetings with Trump — memos that ultimately led to Mueller’s appointment as special counsel, Giuliani argued.

Rudy Giuliani argues special counsel Robert Mueller should conclude his investigation into Trump obstruction charge by September 1 in order not to influence the election

Rudy Giuliani argues special counsel Robert Mueller should conclude his investigation into Trump obstruction charge by September 1 in order not to influence the election

Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining whether President Trump had criminal intent to obstruct the Russia investigation

Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining whether President Trump had criminal intent to obstruct the Russia investigation

The administration claims Comey lied under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee last May when the then-FBI director said he’d never served as an anonymous source. Comey also said at the hearing that he’d never authorized anyone else to be an anonymous source.

That was days before Trump fired him.

Comey later acknowledged that he instructed a friend to disseminates copies of the memos he kept on his meetings with on Trump. But the act was after Trump dismissed him.

Trump has hammered Comey a liar who illegally leaked classified information. Comey has denied that charge and claimed his memos were retroactively classified. 

And he told ABC he thinks the collusion investigation is coming up ’empty’ for Mueller.

‘I have a feeling that collusion has come up completely empty,’ Giuliani said.

Like his attorney, Trump also fretted Republicans could be hurt in the 2018 election.

‘Now that the Witch Hunt has given up on Russia and is looking at the rest of the World, they should easily be able to take it into the Mid-Term Elections where they can put some hurt on the Republican Party,’ he on Twitter in May.

Republicans are expected to suffer heavy losses in November with several of them being kicked out of office. Polls show voters favor Democrats in the upcoming midterm election with Democrats to retake control of the House of Representatives. And Speaker Paul Ryan announced earlier this year he was quitting instead of running for reelection. 

 



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