By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
One of the key obstruction of justice allegations against President Trump is that he urged then-FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation into one-time National Security Director Michael Flynn.
The president’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is now saying that Trump will deny he ever encouraged Comey to fire Flynn, contradicting past statements he made to the media.
“There was no conversation about Michael Flynn,” Trump’s personal attorney said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “That is what he will testify to if he’s asked that question.”
Giuliani denied that he told ABC’s “This Week” last month that Trump had asked Comey to give Flynn “a break.”
Giuliana backtracked, maintaining that he “said that is what Comey is saying.”
Confused yet?
In the ABC interview in early July, Giuliani denied that Trump asked Comey to drop the investigation, saying, “He didn’t direct him to do that. What he said to him was, ‘Can you give him a break?’”
Comey testified that Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.”
Trump reluctantly fired Flynn when news surfaced that the retired Army general had misled Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had with a Russian ambassador during the presidential transition.
In December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the Russian contacts.
During Sunday’s interview, Giuliani said that if Trump is forced to testify before Robert Mueller’s investigators, the president will deny he told Comey to “let this go.”
Mueller was appointed to investigate Russia after Trump fired Comey in May 2017.
So far, the president’s lawyers are refusing an interview between Trump and Mueller’s team. The fear is that Trump will perjure himself.
