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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,646 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 10:34 PM Dec 2018

What Does Rudy Giuliani Know?

Less than two weeks after joining President Trump’s legal team last April, Rudy Giuliani let slip to Sean Hannity that his client reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he paid Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. This contradicted Trump’s claim that he had no knowledge of the payment, which has since been thoroughly disproven. At the time, the president tried to explain that Giuliani had yet to “get his facts straight” while preaching the need to “learn before you speak.”

Despite a questionable grasp of the facts and a deteriorating understanding of the law, Giuliani has continued to go on cable news to defend the president. Invariably, he does more harm than good, and his spate of appearances on Sunday was no exception. He argued that collusion is not a crime; he said that it’s no big deal if Roger Stone told Trump that WikiLeaks planned to release hacked Democratic emails; he rationalized the president’s lies regarding the pre-election hush money payments by pointing out that he’s “not under oath.”

MSNBC even made a supercut of Giuliani tripping over himself while trying to clear the president.




Why would Giuliani try to rationalize collusion when the president has repeatedly insisted that no such collusion exists? Why would he say it’s OK for the president to have known that WikiLeaks was getting ready to release hacked emails provided by Russia, which was actively trying to install Trump in the White House? Why would he try to downplay the president of the United States lying to the American people? It isn’t because he knows the president is innocent.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/what-does-rudy-giuliani-know-770039/


To play devil's advocate for a moment I imagine defending Trump is hard enough as to stress most people out.
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What Does Rudy Giuliani Know? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 OP
How to lie ? pwb Dec 2018 #1
Not as much as he should. n/t Different Drummer Dec 2018 #2
Not as much as he thinks he knows. BannonsLiver Dec 2018 #3
Somebody knows alot about Giuliani.... The empressof all Dec 2018 #4
Who can keep up with the ever changing story? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #5
Giuliani is what you call a attention freak. Wash. state Desk Jet Dec 2018 #6
He doesn't know how stupid he looks... Wounded Bear Dec 2018 #7
Rudy's a fool but I'm not sure he's stumbling so much as... jcgoldie Dec 2018 #8
What does Giuliani know? calguy Dec 2018 #9

The empressof all

(29,098 posts)
4. Somebody knows alot about Giuliani....
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 10:45 PM
Dec 2018

I've seen him in action for years and currently the man is a walking cry for help and seems beaten down and terrified... I don't feel sorry for him but his weaselly involvement in this is just weird. He and Trump have run in the same circles for years and he has always been a bit of an attention hound...But he should know better that the crap he is spewing in the media is just insane and indefensible. He's always been a jerk but he was never an idiot. One day we will find out what they have on him and there will be pictures. I'm sure Pecker has a file on him.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
6. Giuliani is what you call a attention freak.
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 10:54 PM
Dec 2018

As an attorney he has been toast for a very long time. He does not have a small army of legal beagle's doing all the work and at his age he can't keep it all compartmentalized in his head, so he leaks from time to time. What he is, is Trump's legal PR guy. He lies to the public for Trump. It all makes him feel relevant again. When he over steps his Trump boundaries , when he becomes a believer in his own PR, sees himself as a real caliber Trump lawyer ,defender and guardian of the Trump's, under the bus he will go !


He will become irrelevant again.

jcgoldie

(11,603 posts)
8. Rudy's a fool but I'm not sure he's stumbling so much as...
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 11:03 PM
Dec 2018

...consistently moving the goal posts. It happens way too much to just be gaffes. He always seems to foreshadow the next domino to fall.

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