President Trump
Donald John TrumpTrump officials to announce closure of Palestinian Liberation Organization office in DC: report Alibaba's Jack Ma to step down as chairman in 2019 Trump expected to soon declassify Carter Page, Bruce Ohr documents: report MORE’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that Trump could be “walking into a trap” by interviewing with special counsel Robert Mueller
Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE if he’s not given more details about an FBI informant who reportedly met with Trump campaign aides.
Giuliani told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Sunday that Trump’s team would need more information about the informant and whether the individual had any “incriminating information” on Trump associates.
“What we intend to do is premise it on, ‘If you want an interview, we need an answer to this,’ ” Giuliani told the newspaper.
The Washington Post reported Friday that an FBI informant had met with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis, in addition to advisers George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosPapadopoulos: My testimony could help demonstrate collusion between Trump campaign and Russia Papadopoulos: I don't think I incriminated Trump Sunday shows preview: White House officials on offensive in wake of anonymous NY Times op-ed MORE and Carter Page.
The informant is said to be a retired professor and longtime U.S. intelligence source who met with Clovis in 2016 and reportedly offered to provide foreign policy advice to the campaign.
Some GOP lawmakers have claimed that the Obama administration planted a “mole” in the Trump campaign to find incriminating evidence against Trump and his aides.
The New York Times has reported that there is no evidence that the FBI ordered the informant to infiltrate the Trump campaign.
