Trump’s New Strategy for Responding to Robert Mueller
Rudy Giuliani’s first weeks as President Trump’s lawyer have been hectic and full of contradictions—both Giuliani contradicting himself, and the president contradicting Giuliani.
Underneath the chaos, however, it’s becoming possible to discern a fresh Trump legal strategy since the president shook up his team. On the one hand, Trump’s lawyers say they continue to work with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team. At the same time, they are pursuing a fresh line of attack in public, shifting from proclaiming the president’s innocence to attempting to undermine the probe itself. The contours of the new strategy were on display in a highly entertaining jousting match between Giuliani and Chris Cuomo on CNN Friday morning.
The biggest fireworks came when Giuliani tried to filibuster Cuomo from playing an old video clip where he contradicted his own comments from 1998 about whether the president can be subpoenaed. But the single most notable piece of news was Giuliani’s pronouncement that Mueller has agreed to limit the scope of an interview from five to two topics.
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