The following article by Tommy Christopher was posted on the ShareBlue.com website May 272018:
Rudy Giuliani showed just how bad he is at being a lawyer by throwing most of Trump’s campaign under the bus.
Rudy Giuliani continued his stint as Trump’s worst “TV lawyer” on Sunday. He essentially told the campaign team that when it comes to the question of collusion, it’s every man for himself.
The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the ShareBlue website May 18, 2018:
First of all, I don’t know for sure, and neither does the president.’
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Moments after Trump glommed onto the latest Fox News distraction and once again claimed his campaign had been spied on by President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani conceded they have zero proof to support the right-wing swamp claim.
“First of all, I don’t know for sure, and neither does the president, if there was” an Obama spy, Giuliani told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday morning.
Pressed about who has told the White House that a spy existed, Giuliani’s vague response was “people.” He later added they’ve been told the spy story by people “off the record” and that “you don’t know if they’re right or not.”
But hey, other than that, the conspiracy seems solid!
Trump and Giuliani remain committed to trying to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation by suggesting there was a rogue faction within the straight-laced FBI to derail both Trump’s campaign and then his presidency.
Trump’s been trying to get this “Deep State” coup conspiracy theory off the ground for more than a year. But no matter how many times Fox News repeats it, proponents have not presented any facts to support the wild claim.
Trump, of course, has a long history of trying to smear President Obama. Trump’s political rise was based on his offensive, yearslong campaign of claiming President Obama wasn’t born in America.
After taking office, one of the first signature lies of Trump’s term was his outlandish, completely unfounded allegation that President Obama had ordered Trump Tower be wiretapped during the 2016 campaign.
Giuliani actually brought up the wiretap during Friday’s interview.
“For a long time we were told there was some kind of infiltration [of the campaign]. At one time the president thought it was a wiretap.”
When Cuomo reminded Giuliani there’s never been any proof of a Trump Tower wiretap, even though Trump last year announced it as fact, Giuliani said, “I think he thought that.”
So, Trump thought there was a wiretap, which is why he made the completely baseless and offensive claim against the former president of the United States.
And today, Trump thinks there was an Obama spy trying to take him down — a claim even Trump’s own lapdog can’t back up.
The following article by Josh Israel was posted on the ThinkProgress website May 18, 2018:
President Trump’s lawyer said it was “really unfair” to be debunked by himself
Earlier this month, former New York City Mayor turned Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed that the president cannot be subpoenaed — a legal argument that flatly contradicted an argument he himself made in 1998 during the investigation of President Bill Clinton. On Friday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked him about the contradiction; he simply started shouting.
First, Cuomo asked him how he could make the claim that contradicted his earlier argument. “I never heard of a subpoena for the president’s person,” Giuliani argued. “Let’s distinguish between a subpoena for documents and a subpoena that takes the President out of the oval office and puts him in front of a grand jury or hearing. Can’t do it. Can’t do the second. You can’t do the first.” Continue reading “On CNN, Giuliani shouts over tape of 1998 interview exposing his hypocrisy”
The following article by Jenna Johnson was posted on theWashington Post website May 18, 2018:
Less than one month on the job, Trump’s new lawyer has already made a mess. Credit: JM Rieger, The Washington Post
President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Friday that he has been told “off the record” that there was at least one informant for the FBI or Justice Department embedded in Trump’s presidential campaign, but he admitted that he and the president do not know whether that’s true.
Trump alleged in a Thursday morning tweet that during the Obama administration, the FBI placed “an embedded informant” inside his presidential campaign to improperly spy on him. Trump tweeted that if this information is true, “this is bigger than Watergate!” On Friday morning, the president tweeted this quote that he attributed to Fox Business Network anchor David Asman: “Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn’t commit.” Trump then added his own commentary: “Really bad stuff!” Continue reading “Giuliani: Trump doesn’t know ‘for sure’ that there was an FBI informant in his campaign”
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday said while he has no knowledge of President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paying any women in addition to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, he believes Cohen would have done so if he deemed it “necessary.”
The following article by Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Carol D. Leonnig and Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website May 3, 2018:
Rudy Giuliani’s disclosure that President Trump repaid his attorney for the hush agreement with Stormy Daniels could still be a campaign finance violation. (Whitney Shefte/The Washington Post)
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s media blitz to convince the public that neither Donald Trump nor his lawyer had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, giving investigators new leads to chase and new evidence of potential crimes, legal analysts said.
Giuliani made statements that speak to Trump and lawyer Michael Cohen’s intent — an important aspect of some crimes — and he made assertions that investigators can now check against what they have already learned from documents and witnesses, legal analysts said. His comments to media outlets underscore a growing tension for the White House: The FBI investigation of Cohen presents a legal problem for the president that his own lawyer might have exacerbated. Continue reading “Analysts: Giuliani’s media blitz gives investigators new leads, new evidence”
Rudolph W. Giuliani said President Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy Stormy Daniels’s silence about an alleged affair. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post)
What many close observers suspected about the Stormy Daniels payment has proved true, despite the Trump team’s best efforts to cover it up: President Trump was behind it, even if he didn’t necessarily know about it.
Rudolph W. Giuliani said President Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy Stormy Daniels’s silence about an alleged affair. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post)
This article has been updated.
It didn’t take former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani long to make his mark after joining President Trump’s legal team. Unfortunately, the mark Giuliani left was on his client.
Rudolph W. Giuliani said President Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy Stormy Daniels’s silence about an alleged affair. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post)
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a recent addition to President Trump’s legal team, said Wednesday night that Trump made a series of payments reimbursing his attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 settlement with an adult-film actress — despite Trump’s assertion last month that he was unaware of the payment.
The following article by Joe Conason was posted on the National Memo website April 19, 2018:
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Having debased himself so thoroughly during the 2016 presidential campaign, Rudolph Giuliani has fallen far in public esteem since his heyday as “America’s Mayor,” the unquestionable hero of 9/11. And now that he has returned to the service of Donald Trump, with a pompous promise to “negotiate an end” to Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, perhaps the media will provide a more complex and less hagiographic portrait of Rudy than the reams of fanboy pap that chronicled his rise.
