Back in July, President Donald Trump’s Lawyer on an interview with ABC’s “This Week” said that having President Trump ask ex-FBI Director James Comey to give National Security Adviser Micheal Flynn a break would be understandable.
CNN host Jake Tapper brought about this recollection to Giuliani, Sunday, while on an interview with CNN’s “State of Union” after he backtracked and said the conversation did not happen.
Comey had testified, after being fired by Trump last year, that he had been pushed by The President in a private conversation to probe into Flynn and had also detailed the conversation in a memo he wrote after the private meeting. This testimony is a major part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s case as to whether the President obstructed justice. During the CNN interview, Giuliani mentioned that if the President decided to have the interview with the special counsel he would testify that he never told Comey to ease up on Flynn. He then stated, “there was no conversation about Michael Flynn”.
“The president didn’t find out that Comey believed there was [ a conversation] until about, I think, it was February when it supposedly took place. The memo came out in May, and in between, Comey testified under oath, in no way had he been obstructed at any time” the lawyer added. “Then all of the sudden in May he says he felt obstructed”. He concluded the statement with “he felt pressured by that comment, ‘You should go easy on Flynn,’ so we maintain the president didn’t say that”.
“They can say it’s perjury if they elect to believe Comey instead of Trump” he explained about the “understandable” statement Giuliani had given in the July interview and that was because he is worried Mueller will dismiss Trump’s claim the conversation did not take place.
