Giuliani Tells Us Manafort Will Tell the Truth

I kind of love the failed effort at nonchalance the White House produced today in response to the news that Paul Manafort has become a cooperating witness with the special counsel’s office.

Which, of course, was followed up almost immediately by a more realistic response:

Obviously, someone told Giuliani that if Manafort told the truth they would have to call him a liar. But this is an example of the cat already being out of the bag. It’s just one more glaring, obvious, self-injurious and self-incriminating piece of idiocy that has became the regular method of operation for this administration.

They’ve said all kinds of nice things about Manafort in what is now a retrospectively doomed attempt to prevent him from cooperating. If they thought he’d tell the truth and that it would help them, they’d have encouraged him to cooperate from the beginning. That’s so obvious even a Trumper has a faint chance of understanding it. Right?

If there is one thing I am happiest about today it’s that we won’t need to worry too much anymore about all the talking points the Republicans have been using about Manafort. He’s talking, and that’s all that matters. The president’s spin doctors have to sit and wait like the rest of us to hear what Manafort says, and they don’t have much reason to keep talking about how the charges against him are trumped up or old news or don’t have a thing to do with the president.

It’s just one bit of annoying stupidity that we can put to bed, to be replaced, obviously, with a new litany of hypocrisy and self-contradiction that will badly insult our intelligence.

Onward!

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.