Giuliani on Disastrous Interviews: Trump is ‘Encouraging Me to Do More of Them’

Rudy Giuliani’s TV interviews are raising more questions than answers, sparking a storm of additional political controversies at a time when the White House has had all hands on deck trying to put them out. In short, they’ve been a total mess.

But Giuliani says he’s been told to do even more.

The former New York City mayor-turned-personal attorney for President Donald Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker that the interviews have actually been a help.

“The president is encouraging me to do more of them,” he said. “I try to keep them under control, I just did one on Sunday given though we had about four requests. The president feels that the TV interviews have organized his supporters and those…who understand the way in which he’s been badly treated in this situation from the very beginning.”

That may come as a surprise to anyone who’s seen the interviews, given that Giuliani has openly contradicted Trump’s statements on the Stormy Daniels scandal, revealing the president reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen  for a $130,000 payout to the porn actress for her silence on her alleged affair with Trump.

That was only last Wedensday on Giuliani’s Fox News interview. By Friday, the president tried to smooth things over, saying Giuliani was “still getting his facts straight.”

By Sunday, the attorney told ABC News he’s “not really involved in…the Daniels thing,” so, he doesn’t know.

In that same interview, Giuliani created one more headline on another matter when he implied Trump could plead the fifth if called to testify regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russia probe.

Despite the foot-in-mouth moments, he could take even more interviews, and Welker says “he’s not showing any signs of slowing down in that regard.”

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.

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