Elliot Williams: ‘Most Incriminating Line’ in NYT Report on Trump and Russia Is ‘Publicly’

WILLIAMS: “I can’t count the number of times over the course of this investigation Rudy Guiliani has fundamentally misstated the law in an attempt to throw people off the scent of the president’s wrongdoing. He’s doing it again. He did it going back to whether the doj could keep investigating during the election season. He’s undermining the very integrity of the investigation by misstating the law. There’s a difference as some folks, as frank said before, there’s a difference between counter intelligence investigations and criminal investigations and there may not have been charges that would have flown from a counter intelligence investigation. What they are seeking to do is ascertain the extent of Russians or foreign actors incursion into this matter. I just get flustered talking about it because it’s so crazy. This is a former U.S. Attorney, former associate attorney general of the United States misstating facts and misstating law. Nowhere in there is a denial of the allegations. Frankly, what I find to be the most interesting line in the article, I’ll read it to you, no evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian officials. Ironically, I think that’s the most incriminating line, that they use the word “Publicly,” because there’s so much more evidence we’re not aware about, that speaks to the level of Russian incursion here. Once again, it’s the same stuff, different day, from the former U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. It’s quite disappointing. At this point we shouldn’t be surprised by it at all.”