Trump Lawyer: “The President Is Not Under Investigation For Obstruction”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 18, 2017
On Friday morning, when Trump lashed out at what appeared to be Rod Rosenstein on Twitter, many took his statement as confirmation of last week’s WaPo report that Trump is under investigation for obstruction of justice by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller: “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.”
On Sunday, however, Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow made the media rounds to explain that Trump’s tweet was not an admission, and that Trump is not under investigation in the probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, adding that the president has not received any notification that he is being investigated.
Speaking on NBC’s Meet The Press, Sekulow said “the president is not under investigation by the special counsel. The tweet from the president was in response to the five anonymous sources that were purportedly leaking information to The Washington Post about a potential investigation of the president. But the president, as James Comey said in his testimony and as we know as of today, the president has not been and is not under investigation… let me be very clear here: the president is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction.”
Todd then asked “if the president is innocent, why is he afraid of this investigation?” to which Sekulow’s response: “he’s not afraid of the investigation. There is no investigation.”
Sekulow later said that Trump was merely reacting to the Washington Post story. “The fact of the matter is the president has not been and is not under investigation,” Sekulow said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” one of four political shows where he appeared on Sunday.
“There has been no notification from the special counsel’s office that the president is under investigation,”
Sekulow said.
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