Fmr. Bush AG Alberto Gonzales: If Mueller is Setting Perjury Traps, That’s ‘Unfair’ and ‘Unprofessional’

Alberto Gonzales, a former U.S. attorney general in George W. Bush’s administration, said a perjury trap set by special counsel Robert Mueller would be “unfair” and “unprofessional.”

In response to claims made by Jerome Corsi — a fringe right pundit, conspiracy theorist, and Roger Stone associate — that Mueller was trying to catch him in a perjury trap, Gonzales condemned the use of such methods while talking with Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer.

“I disagree with it. I have to disagree with it as someone who once led the Department of Justice and we’re talking about DoJ investigators and prosecutors,” Gonzales said on this morning. “If in fact that’s what’s going on here, I wholeheartedly condemn it but they have a job to do to get information from any potential witness and I think that’s what they’re trying to do here. But to intentionally set a perjury trap is something that I just disagree with. I think it’s unfair and I think it’s unprofessional.”

However, Gonzales quickly noted that the Trump administration could be “trying to establish a narrative” with Corsi’s claims. The former AG also said he maintains “confidence in Bob Mueller and I have to have confidence in this investigation until proven otherwise.”

“I think if people are telling the truth, they will be fine. And that’s the way I felt when I was the attorney general and that’s the way I feel as a private citizen,” he added. “If, in fact, the objective here is to get people to lie, to purposefully set perjury traps, I do have a problem with that.”

Watch above, via Fox News.