Giuliani's other big admission may be even worse for Trump

[DonViejo]

By Greg Sargent May 3 at 9:54 AM

THE MORNING PLUM:

You know it’s gotten bad when the president is required to do damage control for his lawyer, but that’s exactly what happened this morning, when Donald Trump took to Twitter to explain himself, after Rudolph W. Giuliani admitted on Fox News that Trump repaid $130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels. In suspiciously non-capitalized prose, Trump (or his ghost-tweeter) basically confirmed the story and said it was no biggie.

But Giuliani’s other admission — delivered during his interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday night — may be more important and damning. Giuliani conceded in an offhand way that Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey because Comey failed to do Trump’s bidding and publicly declare that Trump was not under investigation. Here’s what Giuliani said:

“He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn’t a target of the investigation,” Giuliani said. “He’s entitled to that. Hillary Clinton got that, and he couldn’t get that. So he fired him, and he said, ‘I’m free of this guy.'”

In saying this, Giuliani appears to have thought that he was exonerating Trump. Giuliani was saying Trump didn’t fire Comey to obstruct the investigation into Trump campaign collusion with Russian sabotage of our election, but rather because Comey didn’t publicly clear him, which Giuliani believes Trump was “entitled to.”

But this undercuts the leading public rationale that Trump offered for firing Comey. The White House has cited Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as the fake pretext for the firing. But now Trump’s own lawyer has confirmed on national television that the rationale was directly related to the Russia investigation.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. agree

this is the bigger admission. I think Trump's going to go for the "If the president does it, it's not illegal" defense

[Achilleaze]

2. "I'm free of this guy! Ha ha." - Dirty Donny* (R)

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Stallion]

3. Yep but this Paragrapgh is Not Very Well Written for a Washington Post Writer

"In saying this, Giuliani appears to have thought that he was exonerating Trump. Giuliani was saying Trump didn’t fire Comey to obstruct the investigation into Trump campaign collusion with Russian sabotage of our election, but rather because Comey didn’t publicly clear him, which Giuliani believes Trump was “entitled to.”

Come on-Demanding that a Director of the FBI exonerate the President during an on-going FBI investigation and firing him because he was entitled to be cleared is OBSTRUCTION. Pretty tortured analysis. Write clearly

[BSdetect]

4. Your headline could use a tweak as well. LOL Spelling and caps.

[Roland99]

5. It's like they think only their ilk watches Faux

[janx]

6. Much worse.

This is the first I'd heard about that. Thanks for posting.