President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani argued Monday that his client did not collude with the Russians during the 2016 presidential election — but even if he did, it wouldn’t be a crime.
During television appearances, Giuliani suggested that Trump would have had to participate in the hacking of computers and email accounts owned by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to have committed a crime.
“I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime,” Giuliani said on “Fox and Friends.” “Collusion is not a crime.”
He echoed those comments in an appearance on CNN.
“Colluding about Russians, I’m not sure that’s even a crime,” Giuliani told CNN’s “New Day.” “The hacking is the crime. The president didn’t hack. He didn’t pay them for hacking.”
Giuliani’s comments come after Trump spent the weekend furiously tweeting about special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation.
