President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani insists that “of course” Hillary Clinton should be investigated for allegedly “destroying evidence in a gross and massive way.”
In an interview with The Hill, the former mayor of New York City and a federal prosecutor said Clinton’s deletion of 30,000 emails shows possible obstruction of justice.
“Of course she should be investigated,” he said, adding: “There is plenty of evidence that Hillary obstructed justice by destroying evidence in a gross and massive way.”
Clinton deleted the emails on her private server before an investigation of her emails use as secretary of state under President Barack Obama. She argued the deleted emails were personal and irrelevant to the probe of her allegedly improper handling of classified information.
During the 13-minute phone interview with The Hill, Giuliani also weighed in on Trump’s adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account last year, calling it unfair to compare that situation with Clinton’s.
“It’s one thing to violate one rule of the 5,000 rules that exist when you are first on board, but to have preserved everything so it is all there,” Giuliani said of Ivanka Trump’s personal email usage while in the White House.
But that was different “than to set up a whole system after you’ve been in government all your life and helped to write some of those rules,” he said of Clinton.
“It’s so stupid!” Giuliani told The Hill. “So [Ivanka] used her personal email. The thing wrong with Hillary is not that she used her personal email. It’s that she didn’t maintain it. She destroyed it. She destroyed the emails. Somebody used a sledgehammer.”
Giuliani also defended Trump in the wake of a New York Times report that the president told then-White House counsel Donald McGahn last spring that he wanted to order the Department of Justice to prosecute Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.
“I don’t see how a president is prevented from saying someone should be investigated when there is public, probable cause that they committed a crime,” Giuliani said.
“Someone is under investigation and all of a sudden 30,000 emails disappear and someone takes a sledgehammer to them? I’m telling you, she is going in front of a grand jury,” Giuliani said.
On the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, Giuliani told The Hill it’s unlikely Trump will sit for an in-person interview, though he added, “we are not going to close our minds 1,000 percent to it.”
“We weren’t going to answer any obstruction [questions],” Giuliani told The Hill. “We don’t believe we should have to, because it is all privileged communication between the president and his subordinates. It is not obstruction to fire one of your subordinates. It is not obstruction to give advice to one of your subordinates.”
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