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President Trumps personal attorney unleashes in a new phone call with The Atlantic while Trump allies turn on him.
When I last saw Rudy Giuliani for lunch, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington four weeks ago, his most pressing concern was that he had been locked out of his Instagram account. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and current personal attorney to President Donald Trump, had a young woman named Audra, who told me she had won the hottiesfortrump Reddit channels Miss Deplorable contest three years in a row, there to assist him. As Giuliani and I spoke, roughly a dozen tourists asked him to pose for photos and congratulated him on the work he was doing for the country.
Today, Giuliani, and specifically his work on behalf of the presidents 2020 reelection campaign, is a key part of a whistle-blower complaint describing alleged efforts to solicit foreign interference in the upcoming electionperhaps the most damning scandal of the Trump presidency to date. The complaint alleges that White House officials sought to lock down all records of Trumps call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump offered the help of Attorney General William Barr and Giuliani to investigate the dealings of former Vice President Joe Bidens son Hunter in the country. It also alleges that State Department officials were deeply concerned about Giulianis subsequent conversations with Ukrainian leaders.
Even among the presidents closest allies, Giuliani is now the subject of scorn. When I reached him by phone this morning, following House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiffs release of the full whistle-blower complaint at the center of the Ukraine scandal, he was, put simply, very angry.
It is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and Im not. And I will be the hero! These moronswhen this is over, I will be the hero, Giuliani told me.
Im not acting as a lawyer. Im acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government, he continued, sounding out of breath. Anything I did should be praised.
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Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)He is going down so fast I can already hear the splat.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)underpants
(182,792 posts)At least I read that in several posts here.
He also stifled a yawn as Nunes went on.
SallyHemmings
(1,821 posts)Our long nation nightmare may be coming to end.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Sorry Rudy, you are not the hero, you are the villain. And you will soon be the incarcerated.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)...as of January 2017
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)bdamomma
(63,848 posts)tRump now. Fucking jerk, he will be thrown under the bus too.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)bdamomma
(63,848 posts)God I love Du'ers
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)"no honor among thieves" as the saying goes. As the house of cards falls I'm pretty sure it will soon be every man (and woman) for themselves.
brooklynite
(94,530 posts)Honestly, I read it twice and I can't tell...
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and Im not. And I will be the hero! These moronswhen this is over, I will be the hero, Giuliani told me.
Im not acting as a lawyer. Im acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government, he continued, sounding out of breath. Anything I did should be praised.
This can't be serious. And if it is, he is completely bat-shit crazy. Who, besides Trump, talks like this?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Given what we've heard about Rudy's love affair with the bottle, I'd place a wager he was snockered at the time.