Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani says a remark that made it sound like the president had trouble remembering key details about his campaign’s contacts with the Russians is being misconstrued.

In a tweet, Giuliani said the 72-year-old president took several weeks to respond to the special counsel’s inquiry because he was incessantly interrupted, not because he had a faulty memory.

'Some in the media are distorting my statement that answering the questions was a nightmare,' he said. 'That is because as President he was interrupted so often with critical and more important matters. It illustrates why Mueller should end this now and media should be fair.'

Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani says a remark that made it sound like the president had trouble remembering key details about his campaign’s contacts with the Russians is being misconstrued

Giuliani said the 72-year-old president took several weeks to respond to the special counsel’s inquiry because he was incessantly interrupted, not because he had a faulty memory

Giuliani was cleaning up a claim that he made in an interview that it was a 'real job' to recall what happened and a 'nightmare' filling out the questionnaire.

His version of the task directly conflicted with the story that had been told by Trump.

'Answering those questions was a nightmare,' the former New York mayor told the Atlantic. 'It took him about three weeks to do what would normally take two days.’

Giuliani also indicated it was a challenge for Trump to recall the answers to questions about 2016 – a key year for the probe, since it would encompass the time period when any possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russians would have occurred.

'He's got a great memory,' Giuliani told the publication. 'However, basically we were answering questions about 2016, the busiest year of his life. It's a real job to remember.'

'Answering those questions was a nightmare,' former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said of President Donald Trump's responses to special counsel Robert Mueller

The comments raised the possibility that Trump in his responses may have on occasion answered that he didn't recall the answers.

By one count, Donald Trump Jr. also didn't recall 54 things during his congressional testimony.

Trump in the past has said he has 'one of the great memories of all time' and told reporters in November that he answered Mueller's questions 'very easily' and with little legal assistance.

Now that the president has submitted his answers to Mueller, he and his attorneys say it is time for the probe to end.

'I think we've wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answer is probably, we're finished,' he told 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace.

Officials have been grumbling that the White House has yet to develop a detailed plan for how to counter the possible release of a Mueller report, although new acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, installed by Trump, will have to sign off on its release.

'We would always put together plans with the knowledge that [Trump] wouldn't use them or they'd go off the rails,' a former official told the Atlantic. 'And at this point, with Mueller, they've decided they're not even going to do that.'

'It's like, 'Jesus, take the wheel,' the source said, 'but scarier.'

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Trump regularly rails against Mueller and has made comments about former lawyer Michael Cohen and longtime advisor Roger Stone that seasoned lawyers have said amount to witness tampering.

'I don't think there's anyone in the world that can stop Donald Trump from tweeting,' Giuliani lamented to The Atlantic this week. 'I've tried.'

The president's attorney suggested that he advised his client not to assault Mueller and his prosecutors on Twitter.

'I don't think following his lead is the right thing. He's the client,' Giuliani said. 'The more controlled a person is, the more intelligent they are, the more they can make the decision. But he's just like every other client. He's not more … you know, controlled than any other client. In fact, he's a little less.'