I am so glad that the president hired Rudy Giuliani to represent him. Probably close to the worst idea he’s ever had.
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Sometimes I work nights, and apparently those are the nights that all the real interesting news breaks. Damn. That’s all I can say when seeing my Twitter feed tonight. Damn.
Yet another example of President Stable Genius aligning himself with top shelf talent.
Rosenstein and Mueller should just tap out.
I could not stop laughing when I heard Rudy told the Fox viewers that the donald had paid Mickey the $130,000 back. Think Rudy needs to get back in the clown car and be quite.
It’s the Comey quote that seems to be important.
Yes, although at this point in their irreversible mental decline, I doubt a Trump voter sees anything particularly wrong with Guiliani statement. Yes, of course an FBI director has an obligation to assure a (newly “elected”) prez he isn’t the target of an investigation into the activities of his own campaign! The prez is above the law, after all.
The human material we have to work with is useless.
The interview was a political move not a legal one. Trump is obviously guilty of obstruction, among other things. He’s inoculating his followers to the first charge. He’s guessing, probably correctly, that they will completely dismiss the significance of the obstruction case even when it becomes plainly obvious that he’s guilty. In other words, he’s going to brazen it out.
I saw the story break on MSNBC last night. Giuliani is as big a loose cannon as Trump, so anytime he gets in front of a camera, he’s going to shoot his mouth off. He’s a braggart who finally made it back to the big people’s table, and he wants to show off what he knows.
So now he’s trying to backtrack on what he said, and claiming that he has Trump’s approval for setting the story straight. Lawrence O’Donnell talked on air with Michael Avenatti immediately after the story broke, and Avenatti was speechless. He said he’s glad that Giuliani is out there making his case for him.
Giuliani believes he’s absolving Trump of any guilt in regards to campaign fraud, but in the big picture he’s exposed what we all knew: that Trump had an affair, paid hush money to Stormy Daniels just before the election, threatened her not to talk, and then denied every knowing her. Legal charges notwithstanding, it shows that Trump and his cohorts are bald-faced liars.
It may just be another lie to be piled atop all the others, but it’s significant in that all of this is playing out where everyone can see it. Trump stood on AF One and said he knew nothing about it. Cohen has scrambled to cover up his part in all of Trump’s dealings, and he and Trump are going to have to answer to all the info that was turned over. It’s snowballing. I just hope they all get rolled over.
A theory I’ve seen is that Ghouliani deliberately changed the story about Cohen being reimbursed because they assumed it was now provable by Cohen’s seized records (or rat testimony!) and wanted to stem the damage – “taking one in the leg rather than the chest”. Also, as shown in the Edwards case, it will be very difficult to prove Cohen did it for the campaign as opposed to, say, [derisive snort] saving the Trump marriage.
Unless Cohen was stupid enough to keep records supporting a charge that it was for the campaign…
Any takers?
Apparently neither Cohen nor Trump will tell their attorneys what was in the material that was seized.
Perhaps Giuliani was hired because Trump feels he can trust him with what is coming (oh what fools we mortals be). Or Giuliani already knew.
The reason stated for the Cohen raid was for evidence on the Daniels payoff. IMO the REAL reason was Russia. Trump could easily survive anything, including felonies, related to Daniels. But if there are recordings of conversations about Russia, he’s done. So get out in front of one, to (in their lizard minds) be able to publicly dismiss the other later?
Geeze, that sounds too complicated for these clowns. Best with this group to go simple…..
They are stupid people, and the main motivation for every single one of them is greed.
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Priceless as Hannity tried to get him to stfu.
I have to say I had thought that Flood would have at least 24 hours into his new job without this kind of flub. If he’s as smart as they say he is, Gulliani has to go or Flood himself should part ways.
Avanatti & Stormy may have been forced into a 90 day stay but thanks to Gulliani their case isn’t coming off the front page.
We are the laughing stock of the world now.
Now? We weren’t before?
. . . the world was able to recover its wits from the horror and begin to find the “humor” in what “we” had done.
You have to wonder, since he also is involved with Cohen, if Hannity is tied into the Daniels business somehow and has additional personal reasons to wish Gulliani had shut up. Maybe he was involved in the decision to structure.
Even without that, how bizarre is it that a lawyer’s client is interviewing the lawyer for another client? And somehow nobody is mentioning this?
. . . The Worse-than-Useless Corporate Media (at least the Fox edition of it — but not only them!) treat basic journalistic ethics such as disclosure of conflicts as quaintly obsolete these days.
So awesome. I was just watching footage of Sarah Sanders refusing to answer questions due to pending litigation back to back with her blatantly lying to the press about it a few months ago.
Great stuff.
Oh for gawd sake, Trump is trying to tweet his way out of this one this morning and it’s blowing up big time.
He’s just trying to help his attorneys.
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He may be trying to establish that Trump
was paying Cohen for legal services and thus attorney client privilege applies. There are always the money laundering charges to deal with, however.
What’s up with Rudy calling FBI agents Storm Troopers? Is that really how the mob views the FBI these days?
Worst idea?
Think of the ratings!
Whatever his intent, the net effect was Giuliani hurt the President’s case. But I can see him and Trump talking afterward, congratulating each other on getting this out there. Trump is just plain dumb, and Giuliani might not be wrapped to tight.
One other thing: here you have Trump exposed as having lied in a way that can only be spun otherwise only for his least sentient of his followers; unfortunately they are legion.
But for the rest of the world, especially those heretofore who may have been willing to give Trump some benefit of the doubt, here you have him caught in a lie over a sordid affair, exposed not by “democrats” but by his own attorney, so much so that Trump himself had to admit that he lied. They can’t claim as they usually do that democrats/DOJ/deep state/Clinton is out to get him. No, he told a lie and was exposed by his own “attorney.”
If nothing else, this allows the public to see plainly, particularly those still willing to give this president the benefit of the doubt based on the both siderist “reporting” to normalize and otherwise give this president the benefit of the doubt, that this man is truly a bold face, corrupt liar.