Giuliani on shifting Trump Tower story: 'It was a mistake. I swear to God.'

[Miles Archer]

Giuliani on shifting Trump Tower story: 'It was a mistake. I swear to God.'



https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-tower-cnntv/index.html

Washington (CNN)Rudy Giuliani denied Monday that the disclosure by Donald Trump's attorneys that the President dictated a crucial statement on the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting -- a reversal from past denials -- constituted a lie, instead claiming it was a routine mistake.

"It was a mistake," Giulani, a lawyer for Trump in the Russia investigation, said on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" Monday. "I swear to God, it was a mistake."

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"I don't think anybody's lying," Giuliani told CNN's Chris Cuomo, as part of an interview in which he also railed against former FBI Director James Comey and dismissed the idea that his role defending Trump would hurt his legacy. "I think a mistake was made."

The former New York City mayor said a mistake like that "happens all the time" among attorneys in the early stages of a case, and noted that there was no testimony to that effect under oath.

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1. i'm telling you donnie's going for the incompetent counsel defense.

[rgbecker]

3. So obvious I can't believe I didn't pick up on it.

Best explanation yet.

[displacedtexan]

7. It didn't work for the Winklevoss twins.

I doubt it'll fly for the biggest bestest global real estate tycoon in the history of the world because no one would ever believe that he doesn't hire anyone but the absolutely finest people on the planet.

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[C_U_L8R]

2. Wait, what?

Explain this 'mistake' in detail please, Julie

[TheBlackAdder]

14. How long did it take to find and admit this "mistake?" It's something that should have taken minutes

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Tell one lie and you have to tell another lie to cover the first one then another

to cover the last lie and then another . . . . Well, you get the picture.

You only have to remember the truth once.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Rudy - I hope Trump paid you up front

because I think you may be getting canned soon.

[Marie Marie]

12. I thought Rudy was working for free.

[BootinUp]

6. How come a lightning bolt didn't sizzle hi

Ass right then? Or why didn’t he turn into a pillar of salt, or his wanker fall off, or he be made deaf dumb mute.

[ProudLib72]

9. God has a sense of humor

Although having his wanker fall off would be very funny, too.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Let go of the stone, Rudy.

You’re never gonna make it to shore.

Ps...My husband and I are convinced that Rudy is pretending to be a Trump lawyer. He seems way outside the loop.

[Miles Archer]

13. The old Harvey Korman / Tim Conway gag from The Carol Burnette Show

Their "Jaws" parody. They were talking about a victim of the Great White who was attempting to swim to safety on the shore and Conway, in the Robert Shaw "Quint" role, said "He would've made it, too, if he wasn't wearin' his lucky ham."

[gratuitous]

11. Oh, it was mistake! Well, never mind, then; let's go home, boys

Said no prosecutor ever.

But as long as you're in a swearing mood, Rudy, how about swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in front of a grand jury?

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Which was the "mistake"? The initial repeated denials that dad Trump dictated it

Or Trump Jr's congressional testimony?

Or the Jan 2018 lawyers' admission that he did dictate it?

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/390727-nicole-wallace-tears-up-trump-jr-testimony-on-russia-meeting-lies-lies-lies

None of which were "in the early stages of a case".

I wonder if Giuliani is at this stage capable of a sentence that isn't "noun, verb, BS".