Giuliani Attempts to Clarify Conflicting Statements on Trump Tower Meeting: ‘Our Recollection Keeps Changing’
Asked about shifting explanations for statement on Trump Tower meeting, Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos:
"This is the reason you don't let the president testify. Our recollection keeps changing, or we're not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption." pic.twitter.com/Ya0dK1KenB
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 3, 2018
President Trump‘s legal team has acknowledged POTUS dictated the infamous statement on the Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting, which contradicts claims made by one of those lawyers.
At the time there were reports last year saying the President personally dictated the misleading statement, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow responded in a statement by saying, “Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent.”
He made similar comments elsewhere last year, and this morning Rudy Giuliani was asked to account for these “shifting explanations” by George Stephanopoulos.
“I remember when this was first reported, Jay Sekulow was on my program,” he said, “said the president had nothing at all to do with that letter. Later, Sarah Sanders said well, wait, he sort of weighed in, but he didn’t dictate it, and now this letter from the president’s lawyers say very, very clearly he dictated the statement.”
Giuliani’s first response was to say it’s basically what happened to him when he revealed the President’s payment to Michael Cohen.
He did go on to say this about the shifting statements:
“I think Jay was wrong, I mean, this is the reason you don’t let the president testify. If, you know, every––our recollection keeps changing, or we’re not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption, in my case I made an assumption and then I––then we corrected and I got it right out as soon as it happened.”
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