By AFPMore by this AuthorWASHINGTONA top lawyer for Donald Trump indicated today that chances were growing that the president would not sit for an interview with the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. While saying that Mr Trump wanted to testify, lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani added, “It’s beginning to get resolved in favour of not doing it”. Mr Giuliani has said before that the president’s legal team opposes such an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian efforts to tip the 2016 election in Mr Trump’s favour. PERJURYThe president’s lawyers fear an interview could lead to Trump inadvertently, and they say innocently, committing perjury. PARDONMr Giuliani, who in January was not yet on the Trump legal team, was asked on ABC whether a president accused of a crime as serious as murder or bribery could terminate the investigation.

Source: Daily Nation June 03, 2018 18:00 UTC