Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says he'd 'love to have a trial' to prove president's innocence on obstruction allegations
Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said he would “love to have a trial” to prove the president’s innocence on obstruction of justice following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference and allegations of obstruction of justice by the Trump White House.
The special counsel assessed ten particular episodes in connection to the obstruction investigation, all of which were clearly outlined in his report. Attorney General William Barr made the full document public, albeit in a redacted form, on Thursday. One revelation from the report was that Trump had indeed tried to fire the special counsel; a claim the White House had repeatedly denied. In June 2017, just a month after Mueller’s appointment, the president called White House counsel Don McGahn at home and directed him to have Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein remove the special counsel, claiming Mueller had a conflict of interest. McGahn refused, saying he would rather resign.
McGahn’s refusal may have saved the president from obstruction charges, as the report noted that Trump’s “efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.”
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