Giuliani: Trump is being framed
President’s lawyer says partisan Dems dominate Mueller’s team
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that the legal team of special counsel Robert Mueller is “trying very, very hard to frame” the president.
Giuliani’s comments, at a conference in Israel, further escalate the efforts of Trump and his lawyers to discredit the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which is also examining whether Trump has obstructed justice.
Speaking at an investment conference in Tel Aviv hosted by the “Globes” newspaper, Giuliani echoed Trump’s claim that Mueller’s team is dominated by Democrats who are out to get him. And then Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, suggested the team is going to extraordinary lengths to do so.
“They are a group of 13 highly partisan Democrats that make up the Mueller team — excluding him — are trying very, very hard to frame him, to get him in trouble when he hasn’t done anything wrong,” Giuliani said, according to a video of the event.
In fact, there are 17 staff members in Mueller’s special prosecutor’s office. Thirteen are registered Democrats, and four are either unaffiliated or their affiliation is unknown, The Post has reported. Mueller himself is a registered Republican.