Giuliani: 'If the report is good' — and finds no wrongdoing by the president — 'I’ll give out cigars'
By Robert Costa Robert Costa National political reporter covering the White House, Congress and campaigns Email Bio Follow March 22 at 10:11 AM Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of President Trump’s lead attorneys dealing with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe, said Friday that, like many Americans, he’s in a holding pattern, with no inside information about when Mueller will issue his report to the Justice Department.
Giuliani said he and Trump spoke Friday morning, before the president headed out for a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago Club, to discuss their strategy about how to deal with the special counsel’s findings. “Well, we’re going to see what happens,” he said. “It’s going to be very interesting, but we’ll see what happens. There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. Everybody knows it. It’s all a big hoax. I call it the witch hunt.”Mueller, who has kept his investigation very closely held, has not said when he will file his confidential report on the findings of a nearly two-year inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
Giuliani insisted that he has received no messages or even private signals that Mueller’s work is done — “Zero,” he said.Giuliani said he and other Trump lawyers began to assume weeks ago that Mueller could be nearing the end because Mueller’s lawyers stopped engaging them further about the president’s written answers to a list of questions from the special counsel.
“I’m not sure we’ll have to use it,” Giuliani said. “We don’t know how detailed their report will be.” If Mueller gives his report to Barr on Friday, Giuliani said he plans to stay in Washington to do some Sunday television interviews, rather than travel to see Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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