LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his allies ramped up their pressure campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday [5-17-18] — the one-year anniversary of his sprawling investigation — as they seek to discredit the probe that shows no signs of wrapping up soon. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who joined Trump’s legal team last month, did multiple TV interviews in which he claimed Mueller’s team had informed Trump’s lawyers that it has concluded the special counsel cannot indict a sitting president. There was no independent verification that such an assurance was given, and it comes as Giuliani has repeatedly tried to box in Mueller and to publicly negotiate the terms of a potential sit-down interview between the special counsel and Trump…Mueller’s office declined to comment on whether it could indict the president. Trump himself argued on Twitter that it’s time to wrap up what he called ‘the greatest Witch Hunt in American History.'”
-Louis Nelson, “Trump team tries new tactics to discredit Mueller,” Politico, May 17, 2018 3:30 pm