Poof: Mueller's Witch Hunt Vanishes from Trump-world
Introduction: Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani admitted on Meet the Press MTP (Sunday, January 20) that Trump
and his former lawyer Michael Cohen held discussions about Trump tower in
Moscow through November of 2016.
Related to my
previous post here.
More from this Giuliani sideshow: He is Trump’s personal attorney and he argued on MTP
(Sunday, January 20) that the president could
not have obstructed justice when he asked former FBI Director James Comey
to “go easy” on then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in the Russia
investigation.
In the MTP interview Giuliani
conceded to host Chuck Todd that presidents could be guilty of obstruction of
justice, and then added:
Trump was not obstructing, for example, because he had
used the word “please” with Comey before asking him to curb the Russia
investigation adding: “A president firing somebody that works for
him, if he does no other corrupt act other than just fire him, can’t obstruct
justice. If, for example, a president said, ‘Leave office or I’m going to have
your kids kidnapped or I’m going to break your legs.' But, when the president
said to Comey, ‘Please, go easy on Flynn,’ I know of no obstruction case that
begins with the word ‘please,' It goes something like this: ‘If you don’t go
easy on Flynn, I’ll break your knee caps.'”
According to Giuliani, Trump
simply made a legal “request” for Comey to reign in the Russia investigation
before firing the FBI director.
In the past, Giuliani has
tried to shield the president from fall-out from Michael Cohen’s testimony
about Russia and financial misdeeds by claiming Cohen is not a reliable witness
Then, Giuliani admitted that
former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen may have discussed his congressional
testimony with the president, while also acknowledging that talks to build a Trump Tower in Moscow may have
continued right up until Trump got elected president.
Giuliani claimed it would
have been “perfectly normal” for
Trump to discuss Cohen’s testimony with him before he appeared before Congress.
Oops note: Giuliani
is a former U.S. attorney of the SDNY (1988) and knows better – that would not
be normal, period.
Thus now witness tampering is
front and center from BuzzFeed, which Mueller disputed and tons of GOP hype has
followed and then all that from Giuliani – it defies gravity itself.
Related
from CNN via RawStory: Giuliani
appears to be confirming part of what BuzzFeed reported despite the disputing
otherwise that Giuliani and others are cheering about.]
That Giuliani shift was
enough to confuse CNN’s Kate Bolduan
as she and CNN legal analyst and
defense attorney and former DC District federal prosecutor Shanlon Wu tried to make sense of the latest twist in the Mueller
probe and this aspect.
Bolduan said:
“So now we’re supposed to believe Michael
Cohen?”
Wu then added:
“We (that is Trump and Giuliani) will tell you when Cohen is telling the
truth and when he’s lying.” (As he
laughed)
So, what is Rudy G's next act? Get fired, resign, or have one hell of super duper finale:
This is my guess — what's yours?
My 2 cents: Where is this all heading we have to ask? We see and
tons of conflicting story lines, then corrections, and then comes Huckabee-Sanders,
or Kellyanne Conway, or Rudy Giuliani and bingo a new set of considerations
designed I must add: To deflect more, or totally change the narrative with more slick PR sound-bites, weak corrections, and excuses.
Clever, very clever but also very obvious, weak, and
transparent with one aim: To deceive, confuse, and save Trump’s hide.
A very sad
chapter in American presidential history right before our eyes changing daily
or sometimes hourly – one hell of a con and game plan, isn’t it?
Thank goodness savvy people can see through it and work to set these
pages of history right. We shall see – how long it takes, well that’s the
$64,000 question isn’t it.
Stay tuned. Thanks for stopping by.
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