GIULIANI'S BIZARRE COMMENTS OF THE PAST WEEK

 

..Here’s an old Trump and Giuliani spoof, with Giuliani in drag

Giuliani keeps saying that “colluding itself is not against the law”, it is when it is called a “conspiracy”.

Has anybody figured what Trump's lawyer/spokesperson, Rudolph Giuliani is attempting to do?

Rudy continues to water-down Trump’s denials for wrong-doing, while he raises the bar for what would even constitute any wrong-doing!

Huh….?

Sure looks like the president’s team is expecting some bad news from Paul Manafort’s trial, or Michael Cohen’s cooperation with the Mueller investigation, or more info on the Trump Tower meeting where additional people are saying Trump knew about the meeting, or that there was a pre-meeting to talk about strategy for the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians.

As an example, Trump has kept saying he never colluded with the Russians, and now Rudy goes on Fox News and re-kindles the concept that colluding isn’t even a crime.

Pardon me, but when a group of people from a rival foreign country tell an American political campaign that they want to provide dirt on a political competitor, and that American political party doesn’t immediately call the FBI and is totally willing to accept that Russian dirt, that is conspiracy, not just colluding.

It is true, as Rudy stated, that colluding itself is not against the law.  But what was going on in the meeting in Trump Tower between the campaign personnel and the Russians, that is conspiracy to commit unlawful acts.  Even if nothing came of the meeting, the fact that they did not contact the authorities about the offer from a rival foreign country, that is against the law.

It seems that Giuliani's appearance on Fox News and CNN's morning shows, was just to downplay the idea of not colluding with the Russians, because they are trying to get ahead of some bombshell info that could be coming out of Mueller or Cohen’s investigations. 

Here is the strange conversation from Giuliani that was similar on both morning shows:

GUILIANI: “Even this Russia meeting -- I'm happy to tell [Robert Mueller] he [Trump] wasn't there; he wasn't at the meeting,” Giuliani said this while arguing that Mueller doesn't need to even interview Trump.

FOX / CNN: Trump tweeted that Mueller has "a nasty business relationship” w/ him. What did he mean?

G: I can't tell you

FOX/CNN: If you can't talk about it, why would Trump tweet it?

G: Ask Mueller

FOX/CNN: Why should Mueller have to explain Trump's tweets?

G: 'Cause he’s the one that has the conflict [What conflict….?]

G: I'm happy to tell Mueller that Trump wasn't at the Trump Tower meeting.

FOX/CNN: How do you know he wasn't there?

G: Because Cohen is a liar and Don Jr. says he [his father] wasn't there.

FOX/CNN: Don't they have self-interest in saying that?

GIULIANI: Well, Cohen does. [And Don Jr. doesn’t?]

What is all that gibberish about?

At times, Giuliani appeared to say that Trump also was not present for a separate alleged pre-meeting before the Trump Tower meeting in which the strategy for the Trump Tower meeting was discussed. Cohen however, has reported that others can vouch for the fact that Trump knew about the meeting before it occurred, but it's not clear whether he's talking about the Tower meeting or the pre-meeting.

“He did not participate in any meeting about the Russia transaction ... the president did not,” Giuliani said. “And other people at the Trump Tower meeting claim that the president was never there.”

But it appears that Giuliani is talking about this because they think Cohen may soon provide a list of those that knew that Trump was aware of the Trump Towers meeting before it occurred.

Latest update: Giuliani appeared later on Fox News to try and clarify his comments. He said he was indeed talking about an allegation of a second, earlier meeting that hasn't been made public.  Another meeting he had heard about by talking to reporters. Asked why he was debunking an allegation that had yet to be made, Giuliani said he was merely getting ahead of the story.

He reiterated: "The president didn’t know about that meeting.”  

But which meeting is he talking about…..?

Then it got really strange on Fox News:

Steve Doocy asked: “What about the suggestion from Michael Cohen that he is willing to say that the president knew before about the Trump Tower meeting?”

Giuliani responded with: “I think Lanny Davis [Cohen’s lawyer] may claim the president knows about the Kennedy assassination and Trump is somehow involved in it.”

Huh….?

The idea that Trump wasn't in a meeting isn't the question. Trump has denied having knowledge of it, and Donald Trump Jr. has said under oath that his father didn't know about it.

Of course, Cohen's reported allegation has thrown all of that into doubt.

The president's former lawyer [Cohen] says there are other people who can vouch for the fact that Trump knew about the meeting in real time. With that potentially damning revelation emerging, Giuliani seems to be guarding against the idea that Trump actually did know about the meeting.

He’s doing this by arguing that the president wasn't in the room and even that if he was working with the Russians, that wouldn't be criminal.  Wrong.

One does seems to be denying a bit too much, doesn't one?

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