Rudy Giuliani now claims he 'never said there was no collusion' between Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign and Russia - only that Trump himself was not involved.
Speaking to CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, the former New York mayor said he did not know if others involved in the campaign had worked with Russia.
'I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign,' Giuliani said. 'I said the President of the United States.'
'There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here, conspiring with the Russians to hack the DNC.'
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Rudy Giuliani claimed on CNN that he 'never said there was no collusion' between between Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign and Russia - only that Trump was not involved
Giuliani has actually stated that that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia multiple times.
In May, Giuliani told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia because it did not use the information it received during a Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
'They never used it. They rejected it,' Giuliani declared. 'If there was collusion with the Russians, they would have used it.'
During another Fox News appearance that same month, Giuliani said that 'Russian collusion is total fake news'.
A day before Giuliani's comments on CNN, Trump insisted he 'never worked for Russia' following two bombshell reports.
'It's a disgrace that you even ask that question,' he told reporters on the White House's South Lawn on Tuesday. 'It's all a big fat hoax.'
Speaking to CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, the former New York mayor said he did not know if others involved in the campaign had worked with Russia
'I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign,' Giuliani said. 'I said the President of the United States'
In the first report, The New York Times said the FBI opened an investigation into whether Trump was acting on Russia's behalf soon after he became president.
Trump's behavior in the days around Comey's May 2017 firing as FBI director, specifically two instances in which he seemed to tie Comey's ousting to the Russia investigation, helped trigger the counter-intelligence part of the investigation, according to the newspaper.
The president responded to the report during an interview broadcast on the Fox News Channel after host Jeanine Pirro, who is also a personal friend of Trump, asked whether he is currently or has ever worked for Russia.
'I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked,' Trump said. 'I think it's the most insulting article I've ever had written, and if you read the article you'll see that they found absolutely nothing.'
Trump never answered Ms Pirro's question directly, but went on to claim that no president has taken a harder stance against Russia than he has.
'If you ask the folks in Russia, I've been tougher on Russia than anybody else, any other…probably any other president, period, but certainly the last three or four presidents,' he said.
A day before Giuliani's comments, Trump insisted he 'never worked for Russia' following two bombshell reports
Meanwhile, The Washington Post detailed what it said were the unusual lengths taken by Trump to hide the contents of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Both men's comments come as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation looms large in the background, punctuated by guilty pleas, convictions and indictments of former Trump associates.
These include his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Manafort has admitted to sharing polling data with a Russian during the 2016 presidential race, according to a court filing inadvertently made public by his lawyers. CNN reported that the intended recipients were two pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarchs.
But on Wednesday, Giuliani suggested that was 'not collusion'.
'Polling data is given to everybody,' he told CNN.
The overall investigation is looking into Russian election interference and whether Trump's campaign co-ordinated with the Russians, as well as possible obstruction of justice by Trump himself.
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Speaking to CNN‘s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, the former New York mayor said he did not know if...
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