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kentuck

(111,074 posts)
Mon May 28, 2018, 08:17 AM May 2018

Guiliani: "Because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/giuliani-admits-spygate-is-pr-about-impeachment.html

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Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani confirmed on Sunday that the president and his allies’ attempts to discredit the Mueller investigation — including the most recent so-called Spygate controversy — are part of a public relations campaign aimed at staving off impeachment. “It is for public opinion,” the former New York mayor admitted during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. And while trying to shape public opinion is the rarely acknowledged goal of any presidential administration, what Giuliani said next was unique to Trump’s: “Because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach.”

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Before acknowledging the PR angle, Giuliani clearly tried to reference Spygate as much as possible, using the word six times, and acting as though he was astonished by the allegations. He also tried to repeat Trump’s lie that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has admitted the FBI placed a spy in the Trump campaign — which Bash corrected him on.

Other times, the former U.S. attorney acknowledged he didn’t really know who was guilty and who was not. At one point, Giuliani said he “can’t be confident” there was no collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia, but claimed that the allegations came as a surprise to him and the president and others at the top of the campaign:

You go out to the outer orbit [of the campaign], how do I know what is going on? But I don’t think that would matter. You can’t — if there is collusion with a guy 50 rungs down on the campaign — not that I’m saying it happened, but, if it did, I don’t know — I don’t know what that means.
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Guiliani: "Because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach." (Original Post) kentuck May 2018 OP
fuck impeachment Chipper Chat May 2018 #1
His ego can't do that RainCaster May 2018 #2
I was just waking up and that really caught my attention. They already know the jig is up...he Kirk Lover May 2018 #3
 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
3. I was just waking up and that really caught my attention. They already know the jig is up...he
Mon May 28, 2018, 12:20 PM
May 2018

friggin ADMITTED IT. If your client (and you) are innocent why in the world would there be an impeachment?

I better see someone grab onto that like a dog with a bone.

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