A US federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to turn over communications from Rudolph Giuliani and other advisers on the president’s controversial travel ban on citizens of several Muslim nations in a bid to prove that the ban was inspired by hatred of Muslims.
Giuliani was a key figure behind the so-called Muslim ban and judges across the US have cited statements made by the former New York mayor and close Trump ally in their rulings to freeze the president’s travel ban, specifically pointing to Giuliani’s remarks during a televised interview that suggested he helped Trump craft a “legal way” to bar Muslims from entering the US, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
In a January interview with Fox News, Giuliani stated, “So when [he] first announced it, he said, ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up. He said, ‘Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.’ ”
“And what we did was, we focused on,…