Trump on Sitting Down With Mueller: ‘If I Thought it Was Fair, I Would Override My Lawyers’
President Donald Trump told reporters on the White House lawn Friday morning that he’d “like to speak” with Special Counsel Robert Mueller “because we’ve done nothing wrong.”
“Nothing I want to do more, because we did nothing wrong,” Trump responded when asked whether he’d sit down for an interview with Mueller’s team. “But I have to find that we will be treated fairly. Right now it is a pure witch hunt.”
The president’s comments came just before he departed for the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Texas. The remarks appeared to echo tweets he’s posted as recently as Friday morning, claiming the federal investigation into his 2016 campaign’s possible coordination with Russia is a “witch hunt.”
“If I thought it was fair, I would override my lawyers,” he continued, suggesting his team of attorneys are against the sit-down meeting.
Meanwhile, the president’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been making the media rounds this week and unleashing a multitude of controversial statements surrounding the Russia probe. The former New York mayor said there’s a “50/50” chance Mueller subpoenas the president for an interview, and has vowed a speedy end to his ongoing investigation.
“Rudy knows it’s a witch hunt,” Trump said Friday. “He started yesterday. He will get his facts straight. But what he does is he feels it’s a very bad thing for our country.”
Watch a clip of the president’s comments above via CNN.
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