Rudy Giuliani believes Americans would “revolt” if President Trump were impeached.
“I think impeachment would be totally horrible,” Giuliani said during an interview with Sky News Thursday. “I mean, there’s no reason. He didn’t collude with the Russians, he didn’t obstruct justice, everything Cohen says has been disproved. You’d only impeach him for political reasons and the American people would revolt against that.”
[Trump: Impeach me and the market crashes]
“The American people would revolt” if @realDonaldTrump was impeached.
That’s what President Trump’s lawyer @RudyGiuliani told @jamesmatthewsky.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 23, 2018
Giuliani, who is in Scotland, rejected the assertion that Paul Manafort’s conviction and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea Tuesday meant an increased chance for Trump’s impeachment.
“President Trump has been completely cleared,” he continued. “You have this Cohen guy. He doesn’t know anything about Russian collusion, doesn’t know anything about obstruction. He’s a massive liar. If anything, it’s turned very much in the president’s favor.”
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, on Tuesday was found guilty by a federal court in Virginia of eight out of 18 tax and bank fraud charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia investigation.
On the same day, Cohen, the president’s longtime personal lawyer, pleaded guilty in front of a New York federal court to eight charges that emanated from a probe conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York following a referral from Mueller.
Cohen’s two campaign contribution charges are believed to be tied to nondisclosure agreements he brokered before the 2016 election for porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. He told the court Tuesday he had been directed to make the arrangements by an unnamed federal candidate, an apparent reference to Trump.
[Opinion: Trump doesn’t deserve impeachment (but he should resign)]
