President Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani seemed to suggest that the president had a larger role in the Justice Department’s decision to block AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner in a new interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.
In the interview, Giuliani states that Trump “denied the merger,” which appears to fly in the face of months of assurances from the DOJ and the White House that Trump had no influence over the decision.
Giuliani made the comments after being asked whether Trump had knowledge that Michael Cohen, his lawyer, had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from AT&T in the weeks after the election for consulting work on the merger.
“The president had no knowledge of it,” the former New York City mayor told HuffPost.
“Whatever lobbying was done didn’t reach the president,” he added. “He did drain the swamp … The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted.”
Trump frequently railed against the AT&T merger on the campaign trail, calling it bad for the country. The telecom giant as well as a number of former DOJ officials have in recent months raised concerns about Trump’s possible role behind the scenes on the lawsuit.
Giuliani was apparently attempting to echo comments made earlier in the day by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who sought to explain how the DOJ’s position on the merger showed the White House and Trump administration could not be bought by outside influences.
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Giuliani says Trump "denied" AT&T merger after White House says Trump was not involved https://t.co/SX9LFTcp4Z pic.twitter.com/v3V8FeIp2j
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“Giuliani was apparently attempting to echo comments made earlier in the day by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who sought to explain how the DOJ’s position on the merger showed the White House and Trump administration could not be bought by outside influences.”
Obviously he is referring to domestic not Russian influence.
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