Rudy Giuliani, on Fox News, falsely claims Mueller made $30 million in Russia probe
Celebrating the end of the Justice Department’s Russia probe with a round of cable news interviews, Rudy Giuliani falsely claimed special counsel Robert Mueller earned millions of dollars for the investigation.
In reality, Mueller earned a salary of $161,900, according to Politico and Money magazine. The latter outlet pointed out that top lawyers on Mueller’s team took yearly pay cuts of more than $1 million each to work on the investigation. Though the special counsel’s paychecks were a far cry from the $30 million figure Giuliani claimed, Hannity, one of Trump’s fiercest supporters in the media, let the falsehood fly.
On Sunday, hours after the release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the special counsel report, the Republican National Committee tweeted that through last September, the investigation’s cost surpassed $25 million ― which PolitiFact confirmed, citing Justice Department expenditure reports.
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