LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has no-commented his way through more than a year of the Russia probe. But he’s recently picked up an unwelcome spokesman of sorts: Rudy Giuliani. For better or worse, Donald Trump’s newest personal lawyer has in his first month on the job claimed to relay several key details about Mueller’s top-secret investigation. Giuliani has told the media in recent days that the special counsel has agreed to limit his interview with Trump to a narrower set of topics. He insists that Mueller has concluded that he legally cannot indict a sitting president. And in a weekend interview with The New York Times, he said Mueller told him of plans to wrap up at least part of his Russia probe by Sept. 1 if Trump grants him an interview. Skeptics are dubious of Giuliani’s claims, noting his self-interest in spinning comments relayed by Mueller or his deputies to Trump’s legal team. Some note that Giuliani has occasionally mangled his facts about the Russia investigation and Trump’s legal woes. But in an interview Monday, Giuliani said Mueller hasn’t objected to any of his statements. ‘I am relaying things accurately,’ he said. As is its custom, Mueller’s office declined to comment on Giuliani’s statements.”
-Darren Samuelsohn, “Meet Mueller’s new spokesman: Rudy Giuliani,” Politico, May 22, 2018 5:06 am