Rudy Giuliani admits 'Spygate' is Trump PR tactic against Robert Mueller

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian


President’s lawyer gives meandering Sunday show interviews
‘It’s for public opinion’, he says of claims of campaign informant

Tom McCarthy
@TeeMcSee Email
Sun 27 May 2018 14.03 EDT First published on Sun 27 May 2018 09.47 EDT

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that his repeated imputations of a supposed scandal at the heart of the Robert Mueller investigation – which Donald Trump calls “Spygate” – amounted to a tactic to sway public opinion and limit the risk of the president being impeached.

“Of course we have to do it to defend the president,” Trump’s lawyer told CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash, who accused him of being part of a campaign to undermine the Mueller investigation. Trump has repeatedly called the special counsel’s work a “witch hunt”, despite its producing five guilty pleas, including by three former Trump aides, and evidence of Russian tampering in US elections.

“It is for public opinion,” Giuliani said of his public campaign of dissimulation. “Because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach. Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, are going to be informed a lot by their constituents. And so our jury – and it should be – is the American people.

“So Republicans largely, many independents, even some Democrats now question the legitimacy of [the Mueller investigation],” Giuliani said. “Democrats I would suggest for their own self-interest, this is not a good issue to go into the midterms.”



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/27/rudy-giuliani-spygate-robert-mueller-donald-trump

[SHRED]

1. "How is it..."

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

18. This should be headlines everywhere.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. SPYgate is Trump-manufactured #FakeNews

been saying it on here for 2 days

Trump thinks he has a PR problem, and it can be solved with marketing savvy. Like Trump University, Trump Steaks, yada yada

[Scarsdale]

12. All failures,

it should be noted. Does Rudy know that "constituents" ARE "American public"?? Love the way his eyes pop out of his head, as though someone touched him with a cattle prod.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "So Republicans largely, many independents, even some Democrats"

Name one Democrat Ghouliani, who "questions the legitimacy" of anything OTHER THAN the current occupant of the WH.

[djacq]

4. Mueller is legit... Expect my elected officials to impeach this Orange Clown

VA-05 True Blue Democrat.

Looking forward to the Blue Wave.

Totally 100% good with Impeachment.

[murielm99]

5. Oh, fuck him.

Just fuck him.

[TomCADem]

6. This will be matched by a propaganda campaign attacking Dems....

Given the success of 2016, watch the rise of pro-Trump progressives attacking Dems as part of a neoliberal deepstate conspiracy.

[FakeNoose]

14. If that does happen (and I doubt it will)

... it will be Russian bots disguising themselves as "progressive pro-Trump" Democrats. In other words, trolls.

If we can't check the credentials of a "pro-Trump" poster on DU we should be highly skeptical of any such comments.

[TomCADem]

17. A Lot of Left Leaning Folks Will Fall For RW Trolls

In 2016, a lot of DUers posted a cited to the Sane Progressive who repeatedly attacked Dems as neoliberals. Now that Trump has won, has she said squat about him?

No. Instead, she is Now defending Trump and now attacking the “Deep State” and, of course, Dems.

The point is that even the left can fall for such propaganda campaigns. That is why you have to be careful about threads attacking Dems and giving Republicans a free pass.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCxpfmCp2Z9VPTO7eWV6ebzQ

[SummerSnow]

7. he's the gift that keeps on giving..

so he is admitting that 'Spygate' is just rhetoric propaganda to discredit Mueller and that it is not real

[meadowlander]

8. He's admitting that "spygate" is a further attempt to obstruct justice.

Why mince words about it?

[D_Master81]

9. OF COURSE!!!

and he's not even clever since "spygate" was the Patriots scandal for taping an opponents practice before the Super Bowl back 10 years ago.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I doubted the headline

...but when I read the actual quotes, he does indeed admit to using propaganda to sway public opinion.

Now I'm no fancy pants New York attorney, but it doesn't seem smart to me to tell people that. Sure, Trump die hards will swallow it readily, but that could prove embarrassing eventually.

Regardless, I don't think Rudy's going to get many high end contracts after this.

[TeamPooka]

11. Fuck Rudy

[Mc Mike]

13. Lipless mutant. More human waste that should be disposed of.

Please flush after use.

[dawg day]

15. He also pretty much admitted to Trump's obstruction-

He said he wasn't comfortable with an interview addressing obstruction because the President could be implicated over an interpretation of a comment he made about firing Comey.
"If you interpret his comment about firing ... Comey ... If you interpret that as obstructing the investigation, as opposed to removing a guy who was doing a bad job, on the recommendation, in part, of (Deputy Attorney General Rod) Rosenstein, but you see it as obstructing the investigation, then you can say it is obstruction," Giuliani told CNN. "And then you can say it is perjury, which is even easier for them, which is where I think, if they are sneaky, they are going."

So-- he's admitting the "comment" (presumably to Lester Holt) was obstructing. And then it's also perjury.

This is Trump's DEFENSE attorney?

[forgotmylogin]

16. How do people not understand...

IF HE'S INNOCENT, YOU DON'T NEED TO MAKE UP LIES TO DEFEND HIM.

[7wo7rees]

19. This is how Fake News is born. n/t