Tag: Trump attorney Giuliani

Trump distances himself from indicted Giuliani associates

The Hill logoPresident Trump said Thursday that he doesn’t know the two associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who were arrested on campaign finance charges, but acknowledged he may have been photographed with them at some point.

“I don’t know those gentleman. Now, it’s possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House.

“I don’t know them, I don’t know about them, I don’t know what they do,” Trump added. “I don’t know, maybe they were clients of Rudy’s. You’d have to ask Rudy.”

View the complete October 10 article by Brett Samuels and Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

Law Professor offers sage advice to House Democrats: Arrest Rudy Giuliani

AlterNet logoFaced with an intransigent White House unwilling to cooperate with an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s pressuring of the Ukrainian government to investigate his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden, the House should take aggressive action including arresting Rudy Giuliani, a law professor argues in a column for The New York Times Thursday.

“The answer is unlikely to be found in a courtroom,” writes law professor Josh Chafetz.

The White House has repeatedly refused to answer subpoenas and on Tuesday afternoon, as Common Dreams reported, announced in an eight page letter that the administration will flatly refuse to cooperate in the inquiry, a move that could set up a constitutional crisis.

View the complete October 10 article by Eoin Higgins from Common Dreams on the AlterNet website here.

House committees subpoena Giuliani associates

The Hill logoHouse Democrats on Thursday issued subpoenas to two Florida businessmen who worked with President Trump‘s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on his efforts to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

The subpoenas to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman for documents by Oct. 16 came hours after reports emerged that the two were arrested on campaign finance charges.

Parnas and Fruman are expected to appear in a Virginia court later Thursday.

View the complete October 10 article by Cristina Marcos on The Hill website here.

Rudy Giuliani Declares His Mission Is ‘To Disrupt The World’

Trump’s personal attorney is doubling down on his defenses of the president as both are ensnared in an escalating House impeachment probe.

Attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has defended his client, President Donald Trump, in a series of cable news hits and off-the-rails conspiracy-mongering interviews, said Friday that his purpose is “to disrupt the world.”

The former New York City mayor made the remark during a Fox News appearance, where he continued to spread unfounded corruption allegations aimed at former Vice President Joe Biden amid an escalating impeachment inquiry into the president.

“My mission is to defend my client in the best traditions of the legal profession,” Giuliani told host Martha MacCallum, adding that it is in Trump’s “best interest” to “unravel the corruption in the Ukraine.”

View the complete October 5 aritcle by Amy Russo on the Huffington Post website here.