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Sunday, June 18, 2017
Trump lawyer says president not under investigation
A member of President Donald Trump’s outside legal team says the US president is not under investigation, contradicting a recent tweet from Trump.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” attorney Jay Sekulow says the “president is not under investigation by the special counsel.” He says Trump’s statement on Twitter Friday was specifically in response to a story in The Washington Post about the expanding probe into Russia’s election meddling.
After Trump has said he's under investigation, Trump's lawyer now says "the president is not under investigation." pic.twitter.com/JMvTzZOCso
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 18, 2017
The president wrote on Twitter: “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.” The message apparently referred to Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general whose role leading the federal investigation has become increasingly complicated.
Sekulow said Trump “is not and has not been under investigation.”
— AP
