Nothing Wrong With Accepting Help From Russians, Giuliani Says
- Trump’s lawyer comments after release of Mueller report
- ‘It depends on where it came from,’ Giuliani tells CNN
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Rudolph Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s lawyer and a former federal prosecutor, said there’s nothing wrong with a U.S. presidential candidate taking information from Russian sources.
“It depends on where it came from,” Giuliani told moderator Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” While in hindsight he’d advise against accepting Russia’s aid “out of an excess of caution,” Giuliani said any political candidate would accept potentially damaging information on an opponent.