President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is trying to frame the president in its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mueller’s team includes “13 highly partisan Democrats … trying very, very hard to frame him to get him in trouble when he hasn’t done anything wrong,” Giuliani said at a conference in Israel, according to the Associated Press.
Giuliani’s latest comments fall in line with his Sunday attack on the Mueller probe. In an interview with CNN, Giuliani said he and the president are “more convinced” that the investigation is “rigged” after it was revealed that a confidential FBI source was in contact with several members of Trump’s campaign. The source, Stefan Halper, is a former University of Cambridge professor.
At the conference in Tel Aviv, Giuliani reiterated that Trump has the power to pardon himself — something the president claimed in a tweet on Monday — but won’t because he is innocent.
