Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a recent addition to the Trump legal team, told ABC’s “This Week” that a president “probably does” have the power to pardon himself, even while he insisted that Trump had no intention of doing so. “The reason it won’t is because then it becomes a political problem … If the president were to pardon himself, he’ll get impeached.”House Republican Majority leader Kevin McCarthy also told CNN that no president should pardon himself. Meantime, Giuliani has said before that the president’s lawyers oppose Trump sitting down for an interview with Mueller. The president’s lawyers fear an interview could lead to Trump inadvertently, and they say innocently, committing perjury. Giuliani was asked on ABC whether a president accused of a crime as serious as murder or bribery could terminate the investigation.

Source: Punch June 03, 2018 18:45 UTC