President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has hired Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale to represent him during the impeachment inquiry launched by House Democrats.
The move comes a day after Giuliani, 75, was subpoenaed by congressional committees looking into if there was any wrongdoing by Trump in his dealings with Ukraine. During President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, Sale served as an assistant prosecutor under special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski.
According to a biography from the law firm of Nelson Mullins, Sale “participated in legal efforts to obtain and review secret White House tapes to determine whether criminal conduct had taken place in the Oval Office and among senior presidential staff members.”
He has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York and in the District of Connecticut in addition to working as the chief assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida.
Sale, who was Giuliani’s law school classmate at New York University, told CNN that he and the former New York mayor have yet to make a decision on whether he will comply with the subpoena requests.
“What I’ve already learned is this is very complex,” Sale said. “I really have to study it. I can’t shoot from the hip.”
“Every time I turn around, Rudy’s on another TV show,” he added. “He and I could have a conversation, and then I turn on the television and he could be doing something else.”
Giuliani said of Sale that it’s “great to be working with such a great lawyer who knows the difference between a real investigation and a political orchestrated dirty trick.”
