Trump lawyers list taboo topics for any Mueller talk
As President Donald Trump’s lawyers continue negotiating with Robert Mueller over an interview, they say at least two topics remain off the table: the firing of FBI Director James Comey and Trump’s comments to Comey about his investigation of Michael Flynn.
If asked, the president would tell the special counsel that he didn’t urge Comey to stop investigating Flynn, his former national security adviser, and didn’t fire Comey to cut off his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, Rudy Giuliani said in an interview Thursday.
“They know the answers to that,” Giuliani said. “Why are they seeking him to repeat it? The only reason we can surmise is they want to set up a contradiction between him and Comey, and their selection would be Comey as the person telling the truth.”