"Ivanka Trump? I think I would get on my charger and go right into – run into their offices with a lance if they go after her," Giuliani told Fox News host Sean Hannity when asked about the possibility that the Mueller team would investigate or even prosecute the president's eldest daughter.
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In his responses to Hannity's questions, Guiliani seemed to confirm that Trump would indeed try to turn his supporters against Mueller if he called in his daughter.
"If they do Ivanka, which I doubt they will, the whole country will turn on him. They are going after his daughter?" Giuliani asked Hannity.
Rudy Giuliani is SERIOUSLY overestimating the public support of Ivanka Trump here. pic.twitter.com/PwRTj6UV4j
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) May 3, 2018
As of March, Ivanka Trump's unfavorable rating has increased by 10 percentage points, from 33 percent in January 2017 to 43 percent at that time, according to an Economist/YouGov poll. Her favorability rating remained static at 42 percent during that same period.
Similarly, while Jared Kushner's favorability rating dropped from 25 percent in January 2017 to 22 percent in March 2018, his unfavorability rating soared from 29 percent in January 2017 to 42 percent in March 2018.
While Giuliani might be overestimating the public's affinity for the president's daughter, when Hannity asked about Kushner, the president's son-in-law, Giuliani defended Kushner's character before making the seemingly chivalrous (but actually chauvinistic) argument that men are more "disposable" than women.
"Jared is a fine man, you know that," Giuliani told Hannity. "But men are, you know, disposable. A fine woman like Ivanka, come on!"