The Justice Department would have to intervene in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation if the special counsel tried to squeeze former White House communications director Hope Hicks like he is doing to Paul Manafort, said Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday.
“I’ve worked with Hope. She is not going to lie,” Giuliani, a Trump attorney, claimed during an interview on Fox News.
“If they did that to her then the Justice Department would have to step in and act because it would be just a total injustice. And they’ve done a few injustices, but not quite as bad as that yet,” he continued.
Questions about Hicks’ involvement in drafting a statement about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between key Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin-linked lawyer organized under the pretense of sharing dirt on Hillary Clinton were raised again Wednesday thanks to the release of Donald Trump Jr.’s 2017 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on the encounter.
Specifically, it was revealed that Trump Jr. told the panel in September that President Trump may have influenced the explanations for the meeting “through” Hicks.
The federal judge hearing the case against Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, pressed Justice Department lawyers on May 4 to explain why they think they hadn’t exceeded the scope of Mueller’s investigation into Russia meddling by probing Manafort, openly wondering if their real goal was to squeeze Manafort to get to President Trump.
