Jake Tapper Busts Giuliani After He Flip-flops On Whether Trump Told Comey To 'Go Easy' In Russia Probe

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani insisted on Sunday that Donald Trump cannot be charged with obstruction of justice because he never told former FBI Director James Comey to go easy on disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, despite Trump admitting to doing just that in previous interviews.

During an interview on CNN, Giuliani denied an earlier admission that Trump told Comey to give Flynn "a break" in the Russia investigation. Flynn was eventually fired and pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents.

"The president says that he never told Comey that he should go easy on Flynn," Giuliani opined. "Comey says he did. He put it in his memo. We do have a prior contradictory statement by Comey under oath to the contrary. But put that aside."

"So if [Trump is] going in and testifies to that under oath, instead of this just being a dispute, they can say it's perjury," he continued. "If they believe Comey instead of Trump. We know by now who they believe."

"I just want to be clear about what happened in that conversation with Comey about Michael Flynn," Tapper said. "What exactly did President Trump say?"

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