WHY IS TRUMP IN A JOINT DEFENSE AGREEMENT WITH MANAFORT IF RUDY CONCEDES MANAFORT MAY HAVE "COLLUDED
January 17, 2019
By emptywheel
Rudy Giuliani had yet another of his limited hangout meltdowns on CNN last night. (This thread has the best summary I’ve seen until CNN posts a transcript.) In it, Rudy significantly moved his previous goalposts on “collusion,” by claiming that he had never said no one on the campaign had “colluded,” he had only made such claims about the President.
Rudy: I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. I have no idea —
Cuomo: Yes you have.
Rudy: I have not. I said the President of the United States. There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you could commit here, conspired with the Russians to hack the DNC.
[snip]
Cuomo: The guy running his campaign was working on an issue at the same time as the convention.
Rudy: He didn’t say nobody, he said he didn’t. He said he didn’t. He didn’t say nobody. How would you know that nobody in your campaign–
Cuomo: He actually did say that, Rudy — as far as I know.
Rudy: Well I didn’t say that. Well, as far as he knows that’s true!
In this clip, Rudy even says, “I have no idea — never have — what other people were doing.”
Except he did — or claimed he did. Rudy has claimed over and over again that he’s sure the President is not at any risk of being charged with “collusion” because he knows what all of the critical witnesses — who are all in a Joint Defense Agreement with the President — told Mueller.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/01/17/why-is-trump-in-a-joint-defense-agreement-with-manafort-if-rudy-concedes-manafort-may-have-colluded/
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