Giuliani cancels paid appearance next week at Kremlin-backed conference
Source: Washington Post
Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose actions as President Trumps personal lawyer have helped set in motion an impeachment inquiry, abruptly canceled his scheduled paid appearance at a Kremlin-backed conference in Armenia next week.
Giuliani, who confirmed to The Washington Post on Friday morning that he would attend the event, reversed himself that evening after The Post reported on his participation in the meeting, which Russian President Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials are expected to attend.
The two-day conference is sponsored by Russia and the Moscow-based Eurasian Economic Union, a trade alliance launched by Putin in 2014 as a counterweight to the European Union. According to an agenda for the event posted online, Giuliani was set to participate in a panel led by Sergey Glazyev, a longtime Putin adviser who has been under U.S. sanctions since Russias invasion of Ukraine five years ago.
Giuliani said Friday evening that he was no longer planning to attend the meeting. I didnt know Putin was going, he said in a brief interview, adding in a text: Discretion is the better part of valor. Giulianis decision to take part in the conference astounded national security experts. His appearance would have come days after the release of a whistleblower complaint accusing Trump and Giuliani of pressuring Ukrainian officials for damaging information about Democrats.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-set-to-make-paid-appearance-next-week-at-kremlin-backed-conference/2019/09/27/a15ab242-e133-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html
catbyte
(34,341 posts)MontanaMama
(23,296 posts)Save your Oscar performances for Faux.
Evolve Dammit
(16,702 posts)Maxheader
(4,370 posts)They used to hang spys...You know, as being a threat to americu...
QED
(2,747 posts)Since when have you exercised discretion, Rudy?
marble falls
(57,014 posts)way to the cleaners settling his divorce.
obamanut2012
(26,047 posts)JFC.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)A very good description.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,766 posts)Schmice3
(294 posts)He didn't know that Putin was coming. That is as ridiculous as him saying that he didn't know the woman he married was his own cousin. This guy is giving Trump a run for his money in the fantasy department.
poli-junkie
(998 posts)A cabal of mobster despots?!!
Yoopy
(124 posts)Including why is Giuliani trying to get money from Putin.
truthisfreedom
(23,140 posts)That was the only reason for him to go.