Rudolph Giuliani cast doubt Thursday on a report that the feds wiretapped President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen— and he was right.
Giuliani blasted NBC’s reporting several hours before it issued an update on MSNBC saying: “Correction: Feds are monitoring, not listening to Cohen’s calls.”
“Us lawyers have talked about it, we don’t believe it’s true,” Giuliani told The Daily Beast beforehand.
“We think it’s going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal.”
Giuliani, who joined Trump’s legal team late last month, also told the Washington Post that wiretapping Cohen would be “not appropriate.”
“I mean, he’s a lawyer,” Giuliani said.
“You mean, I call up my lawyer and the government is wiretapping him? That’s pretty damn — I mean, they’ve already eviscerated the attorney-client privilege. This would make a mockery of it.”
Giuliani’s comments came in response to an NBC report that authorities began intercepting Cohen’s phone calls in the weeks leading to the April 9 FBI raids on his offices, home and hotel room.
The former New York City mayor was “furious,” when he read the report and was planning to call Trump to discuss it, according to a series of tweets by a Washington Post reporter.
Giuliani also said that Trump, who reportedly called Cohen on April 13 to “check up” on him following the raids, would need to have been notified by the feds if he was “picked up” on a wiretap.