One of President Trump’s top lawyers told The New Yorker that it doesn’t matter if members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia as long as no crimes were committed.
“For something to be a crime, there has to be a statute that you claim is being violated,” Jay Sekulow said in an article published in the December issue of the magazine. “There is not a statute that refers to criminal collusion. There is no crime of collusion.”
Trump’s attorney told the magazine on multiple occasions that collusion with Russia or another foreign power during a campaign is not illegal, and that no statute would be violated by the campaign working with the Russian government even if such an act is proven by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Mueller’s investigation has the authority to investigate any matters that come up in the course of investigating possible collusion between the campaign and Russia.
That includes possible obstruction of justice, which would be a crime.
Trump could be investigated for obstructing justice when he fired FBI Director James Comey earlier this year. He told reporters at the time that the Russia investigation was firmly in his mind when he did so.
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Trump lawyer: It doesn't matter if Trump campaign worked with Russia because "there is no crime of collusion" https://t.co/a8Ld3yd3dr pic.twitter.com/8cSf98qN11
— The Hill (@thehill) December 3, 2017
First it was “there was no collusion” and now it is “collusion isn’t a crime”.
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