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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, Rudy Giuliani doesn't have a clue when investigators will end Trump probe
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/20/1765785/-No-Rudy-Giuliani-doesn-t-have-a-clue-when-investigators-will-end-Trump-probeNo, Rudy Giuliani doesn't have a clue when investigators will end Trump probe
Hunter
Daily Kos Staff
Sunday May 20, 2018 · 4:50 PM EDT
This is bunk.
The special counsel plans to finish by Sept. 1 its investigation into whether President Trump obstructed the Russia inquiry, according to the presidents lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who said on Sunday that waiting any longer would risk improperly influencing voters in the midterm elections in November.
It's bunk. New Trump "lawyer" Rudy Giuliani can say that all he likes, but the special counsel is not obligated to wrap up his investigation into Russian espionage efforts against the United States, or possible assistance given to those espionage efforts by U.S. persons, or whether Trump himself sought to obstruct that investigation, in order to not make Donald Trump and his allies feel bad during the upcoming midterms. Every similarly-calibered investigation, and a great many far more stupid ones, has taken longer.
Each of Trump's lawyers has attempted to keep their ranting client in check by promising him the investigation will be wrapped up Any Day Now. It has been used to try to prevent Trump from further interfering with the investigation or from doing something that, even with Republican control, would get the cretin impeached. It will be used again. The New York Times does not delve too deeply into any of the flaws of Giuliani's pronouncements; they merely repeat that he said them.
But Rudy Giuliani is a liar; that Rudy Giuliani is claiming the special counsel's team has told him this or that is only news in that it provides a window into what Rudy Giuliani thinks is, on any given day, the most pressing issue for his new client. And right now his client wants the investigation into his campaign to go away, right now, this moment, before any other potentially criminal acts are exposed.
Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president. The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his companys ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.
That revelation is what launched Trump's Twitter tirade this morning. His team, and his son, now have to defend themselves from charges that they sought to accept the assistance of not just one, but at least three foreign powers during the 2016 campaign. He is therefore melting into a toxic puddle, and Rudy Giuliani's most pressing Sunday task is to keep his charge from doing something blatantly illegal or pigheadedly dictatorial as retaliation.
And he is, it should be noted, failing.
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No, Rudy Giuliani doesn't have a clue when investigators will end Trump probe (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2018
OP
"No, Rudy Giuliani doesn't have a clue when investigators will end Trump probe."
LenaBaby61
May 2018
#2
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Believe several sources said this past week,
watch for Tump's next go around Propaganda spew. And Old Rudy just kicked off round one.
Team Mueller must be ready or has dropped the Hammer on one of Donnies Soldiers . Suprano's could learn from the Family Crime Syndicate.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)2. "No, Rudy Giuliani doesn't have a clue when investigators will end Trump probe."
Believe several sources said this past week, watch for Tump's next go around Propaganda spew. And Old Rudy just kicked off round one.
Team Mueller must be ready or has dropped the Hammer on one of Donnies Soldiers . Suprano's could learn from the Family Crime Syndicate.
ALL of this ^^^^
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. The Crime Boss Donnie Dipstick is haveing a bad day.
Hillary just nailed his sorry ass once again at Harvard. Speculation that a couple of the Crime Syndicate members might be receiving a Indictment or Indictment's.
Sucker can not spell his Spouse's name correctly.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. No, a random Daily Kos poster does not know what he is talking about
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)6. And Giuliani does? Do tell. nt
oberliner
(58,724 posts)8. Giuliani, Trump's attorney, confirmed to CNN that Mueller's office shared its timeline with him
about a month ago. The New York Times first reported on Mueller's time frame.
The former New York mayor said, however, that Mueller gave him the information within the context of a discussion about whether Trump would do an interview with the special counsel. Giuliani said the impression he got was that Mueller was saying if the President did do an interview, then the investigation into Trump's actions, including any potential obstruction of justice or possible collusion with Russia's interference in the 2016 election, could be wrapped up by that date.
Giuliani also said the date could be different now because his discussion with Mueller was a month ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/politics/rudy-giuliani-robert-mueller/index.html
The former New York mayor said, however, that Mueller gave him the information within the context of a discussion about whether Trump would do an interview with the special counsel. Giuliani said the impression he got was that Mueller was saying if the President did do an interview, then the investigation into Trump's actions, including any potential obstruction of justice or possible collusion with Russia's interference in the 2016 election, could be wrapped up by that date.
Giuliani also said the date could be different now because his discussion with Mueller was a month ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/politics/rudy-giuliani-robert-mueller/index.html
Covered in the NY Times and CNN.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)9. I think Rudy has said a lot of things that are
just not true. I guess we shall see.
shanny
(6,709 posts)5. I know when Mueller will end his probe.
When he's finished.
I predict it will be awhile.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)7. Why would the shrew-faced republican SpokesGhoul tell the truth this time?
Every other thing the republican has said is a lie. So you'd have be a total submissive dotard dupe to suck up this statement and imagine - even for a moment - that there is an iota of truth in it.