Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that he has been told by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that it does not have the authority to indict President Donald Trump, continuing the pressure campaign Trump’s allies and legal team have been pushing for months.
“I asked him specifically if they realized or acknowledged they didn’t have the power to indict. Both under the justice department memo, which gives them their power, in essence confines their power, and under the constitution,” Trump attorney Giuliani told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “One of his assistants said they acknowledged they had to be bound by justice department policies. Then the next day or the day after, they clarified it for [Trump attorney] Jay Sekulow who was with me at the meeting that they didn’t have the power to indict.”
Giuliani added that Mueller’s team told him the investigation would eventually produce a “memorandum and give it to the deputy attorney general,” who is overseeing the probe with the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions from all matters related to the 2016 campaign.
Mueller’s office declined to comment on whether it could indict the president.
Thursday marks one year since Mueller’s appointment by deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a probe that has bedeviled the president through the majority of his time in office and one he has derided loudly and often as a “witch hunt.” While Trump’s legal team has repeatedly shuffled its membership, it has consistently called for a swift end to Mueller’s probe, as have other Trump allies.
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