Giuliani: Mueller’s ‘Partisan’ Team Is ‘Trying Very, Very Hard To Frame’ Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 05: Latest appointee to President Donald Trump's legal team and former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani attends the Conference on Iran on May 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Over one thousand de... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 05: Latest appointee to President Donald Trump's legal team and former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani attends the Conference on Iran on May 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Over one thousand delegates from representing Iranian communities from forty states attends the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and Democracy. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is trying to frame President Donald Trump.

It was the latest salvo in Giuliani’s attacks on the probe into Russia’s potential meddling in U.S elections. Trump’s team and allies have waged a public relations campaign against Mueller and the Justice Department to discredit the investigation and soften the impact of the special counsel’s potential findings.

“There are a group of 13 highly partisan Democrats who make up the Mueller team, excluding him, and are trying very, very hard to frame him to get him in trouble when he hasn’t done anything wrong,” said Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump’s lawyer amid the Russia scandal.

“They can’t emotionally come to grips with the fact that this whole thing with Russian collusion didn’t happen. They are trying to invent theories of obstruction of justice,” Giuliani told a business conference in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

“They have revealed no evidence that President Trump has done anything wrong,” he added. “None.”

Mueller is investigating whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia during the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump took steps to shut down that investigation through actions, including the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

Though Trump insists he did nothing wrong, the statements from him and his lawyers have made clear that much of their defense revolves around establishing that he was constitutionally empowered to take the actions he took.

Speaking to the Globes capital market conference Wednesday, Giuliani said Trump has the power to pardon himself but would not do so.

“The law of the United States is that the president of the United States has unlimited, unreviewable power to pardon people from federal crimes even before they are convicted,” he said. “Does he have the power to do it? Yes. Is he going to do it? No. He’s innocent. He hasn’t done anything wrong.”

Giuliani has made similar statements in the past. He has become a lightning rod during his tenure on Trump’s team, drawing the president’s ire for a series of scattershot interviews.

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  1. Giuliani has made similar statements in the past. He has become a lightning rod during his tenure on Trump’s team, drawing the president’s ire for a series of scattershot interviews.

    Really ? ‘Drawing the president’s ire’ ? You must be joking ?

    What is he doing in Israel ?

  2. He also said Kim Jong Un begged for the summit to happen “on his hands and knees.” If Kim wants to pull the rug out that’s a perfect excuse. Rudy, man. He’s a piece of work.

  3. “They have revealed no evidence that President Trump has done anything wrong,” he added. “None.”

    Until they do. And then, game over.

    Those indictments didn’t come out of thin air. And the folks who’ve been indicted are going to try to save their butts if they’re smart (and admittedly, they all aren’t smart). When the ding-dong of Doom descends, this tune will change.

    I’m waiting patiently. For a little longer.

  4. I think Miss Rudy and Tweety himself are trying harder to frame him than Mueller. All the SCs office has to do is sit back and collect tweets and television interviews.

  5. It’s almost as if they don’t understand the concept of country above party at all. /s

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