Rudy Giuliani Says Trump And His Team Have No Reason To Fear Michael Cohen

I really wish Rudy Giuliani would stop agreeing to appear on Sunday talk shows. Not that he said anything embarrassing or eyebrow-raising in this interview. I just think it does very little to help.

He spoke to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and confidently stated that Trump and his legal team have nothing to fear from Michael Cohen.

“What was the president’s reaction to that interview with Michael Cohen?” Stephanopoulos asked Giuliani.

“Same as mine, which is fine. Michael Cohen should cooperate with the government. We have no reason to believe he did anything wrong. The president did nothing wrong with him,” Giuliani said.

“So you have no concerns at all about anything that Michael Cohen might tell the prosecutors?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“Zero. None,” Giuliani said. “As long as he tells the truth, we’re — we’re home free.”

“I have no concerns that Michael Cohen is going to do anything but tell the truth, and if he does, as I said, there’s no suggestion that anything happened,” Giuliani added.

Pres. Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Michael Cohen: "As long as he tells the truth, we're home free…Michael's not going to lie. He's going to tell the truth. As long as he does that, we have nothing to fear" https://t.co/3yy7lTW6GJ #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/JB0P5O4yCA

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 8, 2018

Giuliani also said that President Trump didn’t originally know about Cohen’s payment but reimbursed him once he found out.

“As far as I know from his original statements and the president’s statements and everything I’ve seen in terms of documents and the way it was reimbursed, no the president did not originally know,” Giuliani explained.

Rudy Giuliani says "as far as I know," Pres. Trump "did not originally know" about the payment that Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels, but "at some point…the president found out and reimbursed him" https://t.co/LEjDQ0Nhtt #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/XXuyMrjtRq

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 8, 2018

“To be clear, the president did not direct Michael Cohen in advance to make those payments?” Stephanopoulos pressed.

“As far as I know, that is right, and second, even if he had, that would not necessarily be anything. If the president directed him to settle the case, he would have done that a year before, a year after, didn’t matter that he was running for office,” Giuliani said.

“That’s something you settle because you don’t want your family to be embarrassed,” he added.

Also…

Pres. Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says Trump's legal team is "close to determining" that the president will not agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, but adds that Trump "wants to testify" https://t.co/KkSVJdDFHP #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/j4sxjlQJu3

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 8, 2018

Rudy Giuliani on conditions for a Pres. Trump interview with special counsel Robert Mueller: "We've been through everything on collusion and obstruction. We can't find an incriminating anything and we need a basis for this investigation" https://t.co/LEjDQ0Nhtt #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/s0V2hVBE6O

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 8, 2018

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for all of this to be over.