Ah, Jesus, I thought we might have lost Rudy

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that he can fully understand why Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigations related to Russia and the presidential election and that he might have done the same, had he accepted that job, as Trump wanted.

Giuliani said he would have had the same conflict of interest as Sessions because they were both major players in Trump’s campaign, although, unlike Sessions, he never met with the Russian ambassador.

“I would have considered it, sure,” Giuliani told HuffPost on Wednesday, adding that he told Trump this when Sessions removed himself from oversight of any related Justice Department probe in March 2017. “I told the president at the time that I just didn’t know what I would have done.”

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He added, however, that he does not believe Trump should fire Sessions.

“He could, but he shouldn’t,” Giuliani said, pointing to what he called improving poll numbers for Trump. “Things are moving in his direction ... If you fire somebody, even though it’s legitimate, you’re just going to raise a lot of questions.”

  

We don't want any questions.

Giuliani had hoped to be in Trump’s Cabinet but not as attorney general, he said. “He offered it to me,” Giuliani said. “I didn’t take it because I wanted to be secretary of state. I recommended Jeff [Sessions] as the perfect guy to do it.”

So, really, then, it's Rudy's fault.

Giuliani said that if he were Sessions, he would demand to know from special counsel Robert Mueller the status of the probe and whether there is any reason Sessions should not oversee it. “I think he should do it confidentially first, to give Mueller a chance to explain himself,” Giuliani said.

Tap, tap, tap. Rudy? Maybe he did that.

Giuliani said Mueller’s investigation has failed to find anything of importance and should be ended quickly. “I believe it’s going to be over by, I hope, September,” he said.

Still trying to placate Trump with these predictions of the end of the investigation, or do they just keep doing that to keep his base agitated when it goes longer? Maybe both.

As he previously told HuffPost, he thinks Trump would agree to an interview with Mueller — but only if the DOJ turns over its report on the use of a confidential informant to acquire information from Trump campaign officials about Russian involvement.

Maybe Mueller should take him up on that. Then if he didn't agree to the interview, that could be used against him politically, and if he did agree, there's plenty of other areas where he's going to incriminate himself.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.