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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has told the White House that President Donald Trump won’t be indicted if wrongdoing is found, Rudy Giuliani, a member of the president’s legal team, said Thursday.
Appearing on the Fox News morning program “Fox & Friends,” Giuliani said that a member of Mueller’s team told Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s lawyers, that “they didn’t have the power to indict.”
The aide said prosecutors would follow Justice Department policy against the indictment of a sitting president, Giuliani added.
Instead, Mueller’s team said “what they would eventually do is write a memo and give it to the deputy attorney general, [Rod] Rosenstein.”
The special counsel reports to Rosenstein as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s announcement in March 2017 that he would recuse himself from any investigation into the Trump campaign’s conduct in the run-up to the November 2016 election, including the alleged involvement of Russia.