Giuliani Sounds Less Confident of Trump's Denials

[DonViejo]

December 17, 2018 at 9:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Jonathan Chait: “In an interview yesterday, George Stephanopoulos asked President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani if Roger Stone ever gave Trump a ‘heads-up’ about forthcoming WikiLeaks email publications. ‘No, he didn’t, no,’ he replied. But then Giuliani seemed to reconsider his certitude almost immediately. He blinked, and then softened his denial — ‘I don’t believe so’ — before immediately transitioning into a conditional defense of the very charge he had been asked to deny: ‘But again, if Roger Stone gave anybody a heads-up about WikiLeaks’ leaks, that’s not a crime. It would be like giving him a heads-up that the Times is going to print something. One the — the crime, this is why this thing is so weird, strange. The crime is conspiracy to hack; collusion is not a crime; it doesn’t exist.'”

“If you understand the facts and the law in this case, this much should be clear: Trump is almost certainly guilty of both collusion and a crime. And Giuliani’s backpedalling defense reveals that he is no longer confident Trump’s denials will hold.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/17/giuliani-sounds-less-confident-of-trumps-denials/