Judge Napolitano: Don Jr. Says He Doesn’t Expect to be Indicted ‘And I Take Him At His Word’
Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano made news on Wednesday when he told Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams that Donald Trump Jr. has told friends that he expects to be indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation.
But on Thursday morning, Napolitano walked back that claim during an interview with Fox & Friends.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Napolitano about the comments, and the judge said “I basically was repeating what had already been out there. I since have heard from them, and he says he never said it, and it was an inaccurate statement. I take him at his word.”
During Wednesday’s interview, Dan Abrams also asked “Do you expect he’d be indicted?” and Napolitano replied “Yes.”
Tellingly, Napolitano did not walk back that assessment of Junior’s chances of being indicted Thursday morning.
In fact, he appeared to defend the expanding scope of the Mueller investigation, telling Fox & Friends that “there’s an old law school examination, the FBI is looking for canceled checks in the basement of your clothing closet, and they find a severed head. What are they supposed to do question look-the-other-way? No, they have to investigate how the head got there.”
One would also expect the FBI to investigate why a person would have a basement in their clothing closet, but the point still stands.
Unfortunately for Trumps Senior and Junior, Robert Mueller is unlikely to take either of them at their word, and Junior is very much in the hot seat. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, for example, recently pleaded guilty to lying before Congress, and may have implicated Trump Jr. in the same offense. Abrams’ Law & Crime has an extensive list of Junior’s possible false statements to Congress.
The Mueller indictment machine will eventually come calling for everyone with severed heads in their clothing closet basements, even people who say they aren’t expecting it.
Watch the video above, via Fox & Friends.
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