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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRudy Giuliani Admitted He Lied About Feds Slipping Him Info Ahead of 2016 Election, Watchdog Finds
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The 2016 election was upended just as Giuliani went on the radio and claimed active agents had shared rumors about the Hillary Clinton email probe.
Zoe Richards
Breaking News Reporter
Updated Aug. 05, 2021 1:37PM ET Published Aug. 05, 2021 12:44PM ET
Rudy Giuliani has admitted to Department of Justice investigators that he was bullshitting when, in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, he said in a radio interview that hed heard rumors about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails from active FBI agents.
The presidents personal lawyer admitted in a voluntary interview with the DOJs inspector general that he had not been in contact with any active FBI agents in October 2016, and stated that he had only spoken with former agents who did not have any direct or indirect knowledge of FBI investigations in October 2016, inspector general wrote in a report released Thursday, almost five years after the saga.
In a Fox News interview on October 26, 2016, Giuliani had teased that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had some tricks up his sleeve that would elate his supporters. I think hes got a surprise or two that youre going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, Im talking about some pretty big surprises, he said.
Just two days later, then-FBI Director James Comey dropped a pre-election bombshell by announcing that the agency would reopen its inquiry into whether Hillary Clinton had mishandled classified information. Republicans seized on the opportunity to smear Trumps opponent.
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The 2016 election was upended just as Giuliani went on the radio and claimed active agents had shared rumors about the Hillary Clinton email probe.
Zoe Richards
Breaking News Reporter
Updated Aug. 05, 2021 1:37PM ET Published Aug. 05, 2021 12:44PM ET
Rudy Giuliani has admitted to Department of Justice investigators that he was bullshitting when, in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, he said in a radio interview that hed heard rumors about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails from active FBI agents.
The presidents personal lawyer admitted in a voluntary interview with the DOJs inspector general that he had not been in contact with any active FBI agents in October 2016, and stated that he had only spoken with former agents who did not have any direct or indirect knowledge of FBI investigations in October 2016, inspector general wrote in a report released Thursday, almost five years after the saga.
In a Fox News interview on October 26, 2016, Giuliani had teased that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had some tricks up his sleeve that would elate his supporters. I think hes got a surprise or two that youre going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, Im talking about some pretty big surprises, he said.
Just two days later, then-FBI Director James Comey dropped a pre-election bombshell by announcing that the agency would reopen its inquiry into whether Hillary Clinton had mishandled classified information. Republicans seized on the opportunity to smear Trumps opponent.
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Rudy Giuliani Admitted He Lied About Feds Slipping Him Info Ahead of 2016 Election, Watchdog Finds (Original Post)
JoeOtterbein
Aug 2021
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SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)1. Figures. Oh, and fuck you very much Comey for coming to his rescue. nt
Grins
(7,134 posts)2. I'm calling Bullshit!
Rudy was neck deep with NY police unions, the NY field office for the FBI, and retired FBI agents. At the time the NY office of the FBI was referred to - internally - as a rogue operation.
The IG is just regurgitating what the son-of-a-mob-enforcer said, not what happened.
That's exactly what I thought while reading. Not that he "admits" he was lying before, but that he denies it now because he could get himself and others in big trouble for that!
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)3. Hey! Wow!
I remember turning on CBS evening news all those years ago during Watergate and heard Walter Cronkite say that he thought that HR Haldeman was bullshitting the Watergate committee. And then he went on to say Nixon called John Dean a fucktard.
Now this is journalism!!
Fullduplexxx
(7,818 posts)4. Was he lying then or is he lying now
Was
crickets
(25,896 posts)6. Yes. nt