Giuliani says Trump wouldn’t have to obey a Mueller subpoena, could take the 5th

President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has already roiled the White House’s legal tussle with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, asserted Sunday that the president would not have to respond to a subpoena in the special counsel’s wide-ranging Russia investigation.

Giuliani, who joined the president’s legal team two weeks ago, also said that if Trump does agree to be questioned, he might invoke his Fifth Amendment right to guard against self-incrimination by refusing to respond to some questions.

Giuliani, on ABC’S “This Week,” said Trump was under no obligation to obey a subpoena. “We don’t have to comply” with one, he said.

“He’s the president of the United States,” Giuliani said. “We can assert the same privilege that other presidents have.”

He was referring to President Bill Clinton’s choice to resist a subpoena in connection with the Monica Lewinsky investigation, though Clinton ultimately agreed to submit to questioning.

Giuliani, having emerged as a key catalyst in the separate Stormy Daniels case with his unexpected disclosures and changing stories about the president’s involvement in a pre-election hush-money payout to the porn actress, was somewhat more circumspect in addressing the investigation of Russia’s election interference and possible Trump campaign complicity.