Rudy Giuliani on Sunday said President Trump is “defending” himself by pointing fingers at Michael Cohen’s family, not trying to intimidate his former attorney ahead of scheduled congressional testimony.
Democrats and Cohen’s attorney have suggested Trump is trying to intimidate Cohen by suggesting investigators should look at alleged illegal activity by Cohen’s father-in-law.
“No, it’s defending yourself,” Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Of course it is if the father-in-law is a criminal in the Southern District of New York,” he charged. “He may have ties to something called organized crime.”
In 1993, Cohen’s father-in-law, Fima Shusterman, pleaded guilty to federal income-tax fraud relating to his taxicab business in New York, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Shusterman also has ties to Chicago’s taxi cab industry. Cohen got involved in the taxicab industry through Shusterman, according to The New York Times.
Trump has tweeted about Cohen’s father-in-law several times, most recently on Friday when he suggested Cohen was “lying to reduce his jail time.”
“Watch father-in-law!” Trump added.
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Giuliani: Trump attacking Cohen's father-in-law is "defending yourself," not intimidation https://t.co/yjwCpCozQh pic.twitter.com/K6iy6hYxHB
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