Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said President Trump has already admitted to committing a crime by asking Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
Napolitano appeared on Fox News with host Shepard Smith on Tuesday to discuss the recent battle between the Trump administration and Democrats in the House over the president’s discussions with Ukraine.
Napolitano said Trump has admitted to committing a campaign finance violation.
“It is a crime for the president to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government,” Napolitano said. “This is the same crime for which the Trump organization was investigated by [former special counsel Robert Mueller] who decided not to seek an indictment because there wasn’t enough evidence.”
Napolitano also said that what Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has admitted to also potentially amounts to a campaign finance violation. Giuliani has said that he, under direction from the Trump administration, has pushed the Ukraine government to open an investigation into the former vice president and his son, Hunter Biden.
“If that was done in order to enhance the president’s reelection campaign, yes, it’s the same crime that the president would have committed if the president said ‘I want you to investigate my principal opponents son’ while thinking to himself it is going to help his campaign,” Napolitano said.
