Donald Trump and his team have clearly been on the defensive since the redacted Mueller report came out Thursday. You have to think the best strategy would have been to lay low for a few days and bask in the fact that the report ended without Trump getting indicted. Instead, the president put some of his surrogates out to defend him on the Sunday talk shows. While denying a lot of what is in the Mueller report, here are a couple of cases where staffers admitted to some rather unethical behavior.
One instance occurred on ABC’s This Week as Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway seemed to confirm that Trump had thought about firing Robert Mueller. This is something Trump has repeatedly denied.
.@MarthaRaddatz: "Do you believe Don McGahn when he says the president tried to get him to fire Bob Mueller?"
Kellyanne Conway: "I believe the president was frustrated about the investigation from the very beginning and knew it was ill-conceived" https://t.co/yZdNkbTlSI pic.twitter.com/1TDuyRsia6
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) April 21, 2019
The comment that is getting the most attention today though came from Trump’s current attorney Rudy Giuliani. He told CNN’s Jake Tapper:
“There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians. It depends on where it came from. it depends on where it came from.”
“That’s an extraordinary statement and I would hope he would retract it.” Former US Attorney @PreetBharara responds to President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani saying “there’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians.” #CNNSOTU https://t.co/CywzsEpmFq pic.twitter.com/ylp0vsaOGi
— CNN (@CNN) April 21, 2019
Not so long ago the only American political party that thought this way was the Communist Party.
Just call him Red Rudy.Giuliani: 'There's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians' @CNN https://t.co/7z5M3wgt3B
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) April 21, 2019
Rudy Giuliani: “There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians…there’s no crime..who says it’s even illegal…”
52 U.S.C. § 3012l(a)(l)(A), (a)(2) prohibits a contribution or donation..or other thing of value. “A thing of value” includes valuable information. 1/ pic.twitter.com/hb0bopFM7D
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) April 21, 2019
Watch the rest of Tapper’s interview with Giuliani above.