Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new attorney on President Trump’s legal team, said Thursday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to “trap” the president into committing perjury with a request for an extended interview. Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe last year, a move that continues to elicit anger from Trump. Giuliani’s concerns about Trump being accused of perjury during an interview echoed those the president expressed on Twitter on Wednesday. Giuliani also said Thursday that he did not know how the New York Times obtained questions that the paper said Mueller wants to ask Trump in an interview. “I didn’t see those questions until – the New York Times saw them before me,” Giuliani said.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2018 12:11 UTC