Super Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Accidentally Hints at Russian Collusion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of many unanswerable questions from the past year in Trump’s funhouse is why Rudy Giuliani continues to go on TV and incriminate the man for whom he’s supposed to be providing legal defense. Whenever news about the president’s potential criminality begins to bubble up, you can bet Giuliani is about to position himself in front of a camera, bulge his eyes and bring it to a boil. His debut came last May, when after less than two weeks as President Trump’s legal counsel, he told Sean Hannity, unprompted, that Trump reimbursed — and thus knew about — the $130,000 payment Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. His latest performance came Wednesday night, when Giuliani admitted to CNN’s Chris Cuomo that Trump’s campaign may have colluded with Russia.



“If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago,” he said. “It’s either provable or it’s not. It’s not provable because it never happened … There’s no chance it happened.” Giuliani added that he “never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign” and that he only said the “president of the United States didn’t collude.”

Link to tweet

The gist of this word salad is that yes, the Trump campaign may have colluded with Russia, but the president had nothing to do with it. When Cuomo pressed Giuliani about how Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, could have been colluding without Trump knowing about it, Giuliani said Manafort might have had his own agenda. When Cuomo asked Giuliani why, then, did the campaign change the Republican party platform to suit Russia’s interests, Giuliani said, “Whatever.”

Last week, Manafort’s lawyers inadvertently revealed that when their client was running Trump’s campaign, he shared internal polling data with a Kremlin-connected figure named Konstantin Kilimnik, then lied about it. Though this became public after Manafort’s lawyers botched an attempt to redact it from a legal filing, Giuliani on Wednesday claimed it came by way of a leak from Mueller’s office.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-collusion-780358/

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. He's so awful. The GD eyes alone.

I wonder if lawyers act like this generally where he came up? I have never seen any one so obtuse, arrogant, and absolutely full of shit in my life. He'll say anything.

[dameatball]

2. My son is a trial lawyer and I doubt any of his court responses are "whatever." But then he doesn't

work for free or incriminate his clients while sweating profusely.

[Goodheart]

3. "Super lawyer"? Super creepy dumbass is more like it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Plus they are setting up Jr. Which is fine with me, I predicted 2 years ago he would

throw Jr. under the bus quicker than you can blink an eye.

[PJMcK]

6. Kushner, too (n/t)

[sagesnow]

5. Giuliani's thought processes always remind me of

Donald Rumsfeld's. Like when Rumsfeld said: "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." –on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction

For a trip down Memory Lane, here's somemore Rumsfeld quotes: https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-rumsfeld-quotes-2733514