A fun activity when following the ever-unraveling Trump administration is watching the president’s associates struggle to maintain their story lines despite their master’s tweets. Today, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow hit the Sunday morning talk show circuit to insist that Trump is not under investigation for obstruction of justice. Oh?
Here he is on Face the Nation.
“We’ve received no notice of investigation. There’s been no notification from the special counsel’s office that the president is under investigation,” Sekulow said.
Maybe…he just doesn’t know he’s under investigation? suggests host John Dickerson.
“I can’t imagine a scenario where the president would not be aware of it,” Sekulow replied.
He delivered a similar line on Meet the Press:
“Let me be clear here,” he said. “The president is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction.”
By the time he dragged himself to Chris Wallace at Fox News, Sekulow seemed a tad on edge.
Sekulow: He takes the action that [the Attorney General’s office] recommended and now he’s being investigated by the Department of Justice…He’s being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general and deputy attorney general recommended him to take by the agency who recommended the terminations…