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Could Rudy Giuliani Face a Perjury Charge?

December 20, 2020 at 12:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Mother Jones: “On December 14, Rudy Giuliani Zoomed into a Missouri legislative hearing. His testimony was part of his endless roadshow to overturn the election, and, as he has done so often in recent weeks, he once again insisted there was massive fraud in the presidential contest. Yet what made this appearance notable is that this time Donald Trump’s personal lawyer may have committed perjury.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Wanted $20,000 a Day for Legal Work

November 17, 2020 at 1:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani, who has helped oversee a string of failed court challenges to President Trump’s defeat in the election, asked the president’s campaign to pay him $20,000 a day for his legal work, the New York Times reports.

Giuliani denied the story: “I never asked for $20,000. The arrangement is, we’ll work it out at the end.”

He added that whoever had said he made the $20,000-a-day request “is a liar, a complete liar.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Says He’s Being Investigated Because of Jealousy

December 23, 2019 at 2:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told New York magazine that if the Southern District of New York is investigating him because they are just upset they haven’t lived up to his legacy.

Said Giuliani: “It’s a terrible thing to say because it will get the Southern District all upset, but I know why they’re all upset. Because they’ve never done anything like me since me. They haven’t done an eight years like I did since I left being U.S. attorney. Nothing close.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

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Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukraine Energy Firm

November 15, 2019 at 12:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates who also aided his efforts there to launch investigations that could benefit President Trump,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Butt-Dials a Reporter

October 25, 2019 at 3:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News: “Giuliani can be heard discussing overseas dealings and lamenting the need for cash, though it’s difficult to discern the full context of the conversation. The call appeared to be one of the most unfortunate of faux pas: what is known, in casual parlance, as a butt dial.”

And then he did it again the next day.

“In the message, Giuliani is heard talking to at least one other person. The conversation appears to pick up almost exactly where Giuliani’s phone call with the reporter left off the day before, with Giuliani insisting he was the target of attacks because he was making public accusations about a powerful Democratic politician… Giuliani spends the entire three minutes railing against the Bidens. He can be heard recycling many of the unfounded allegations he has been making on cable news and in interviews with print reporters.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Won’t Comply with House Subpoena

October 15, 2019 at 3:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told ABC News on Tuesday he is not complying with a congressional subpoena and “if they enforce it then we will see what happens.”

He went on to say he’s no longer retaining the services of Jon Sale, who was acting as his attorney for this matter.

Giuliani told the New York Daily News that he is dropping his lawyer because it is “silly to have a lawyer when I don’t need one.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Had Lunch with Indicted Donors Yesterday

October 10, 2019 at 2:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani reportedly had lunch with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman at Trump International Hotel in Washington yesterday, the same day that they were arrested on campaign-finance charges, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Prosecutors said at a press conference that Parnas and Fruman were attempting to leave the country when they were arrested at Dulles International Airport.

Filed Under: Campaign Finance Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?

October 7, 2019 at 1:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ken Frydman, a former press secretary for Rudy Giuliani, writes in the New York Times: “After his mayoralty ended in 2002, Rudy went to work for what seemed like every rich bad guy and tinpot dictator who called. (So going to work for Mr. Trump made sense.) He charged $100,000 for self-aggrandizing speeches about his heroic leadership after Sept. 11. He became a multimillionaire.”

“In perfect political symmetry, Rudy Giuliani now does Donald Trump’s dirty work: Vainly trying to cover up the Ukrainian cover-up and attacking a Democratic presidential front-runner, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter.”

“Watching and reading Rudy’s ferocious lying for Mr. Trump, whether on Fox or CNN, forced me to re-examine his last 25 years, especially the profiteering from Sept. 11. But Ukraine was the coup de grâce. We who admired him for so long expected much more from Rudy Giuliani and his legacy.”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Ukraine Envoy Told Giuliani Claims Weren’t Credible

October 3, 2019 at 3:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker told House investigators that he warned Rudy Giuliani, that Giuliani was receiving untrustworthy information from Ukrainian political figures about Joe Biden and his son, the Washington Post reports.

“Volker said he tried to caution Guiliani that his sources, including Ukraine’s former top prosecutor, were unreliable and that he should be careful about putting faith in the prosecutor’s stories.”

“Volker also said that he and other State Department officials cautioned the Ukrainians to steer clear of U.S. politics. Getting involved would open the nation up to allegations that they were interfering in an election and could be detrimental to Ukraine long-term.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Won’t Say If He Has Agreement with Trump

October 2, 2019 at 4:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani “refused to say what sort of agreement, if any, he has with President Trump to act as his lawyer,” BuzzFeed News reports.

Said Giuliani: “If I did, I wouldn’t show it to you, and what right do you have to ask me that? I’m a private lawyer. I could have a handshake with him. I don’t have to tell you what the basis of my attorney-client relationship is.”

“The nature of Giuliani’s work for Trump is central to how Congressional investigators are able to gather information from Giuliani. If Giuliani has been working as the president’s personal lawyer, he could claim attorney-client privilege over his communications with the president… But there are exceptions to that privilege, and Giuliani himself recently told The Atlantic, ‘I’m not acting as a lawyer.'”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Is a One-Man Wrecking Crew

October 2, 2019 at 4:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

John Cassidy: “If this was a dystopian thriller, one could imagine Giuliani as an undercover saboteur, who was ordered to embed himself as deeply as possible within Team Trump and then bide his time. In 2016, he proved his bona fides with Trump by publicly defending him after the appearance of the Access Hollywood tape, and then he accompanied Trump on his final campaign swing. In 2018, after Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel, Giuliani reappeared as the public face of the President’s legal-defense team. With other lawyers conducting most of the actual legal work, he had plenty of time for pursuing other projects, including a certain oppo-research effort in Kiev. And what a job he made of it.”

“Giuliani isn’t an undercover operative, of course. He’s a retired politician who couldn’t bear to be out of the spotlight and who saw, in Trump’s rise, a way to get back on the stage. He’s also a rich security consultant, whose clients include Eastern European moguls with ties to the Ukrainian government. In promoting to Trump the unfounded theory that Biden blackmailed Ukraine’s government to protect his son, these two streams in Giuliani’s life came together. And you have to give him some credit, at least, for knowing his client. Outside the confines of 4chan, there is probably nobody in America more partial to conspiracy theories than Trump.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani’s Former Colleagues Think He Broke Law

September 27, 2019 at 8:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News: “Giuliani’s role in the scandal that has triggered an impeachment inquiry is still coming into focus. But several legal experts who used to work with the former U.S. attorney-turned New York City mayor-turned chief President Trump defender told NBC News they believe his conduct likely broke the law.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Would Consult Trump If Asked to Testify

September 27, 2019 at 6:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told CNN that he would not testify for the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry without consulting his client, President Trump.

He said his work for the President should be protected by attorney-client privilege.

Said Giuliani: “Ultimately, if I were to say yes and he were to say no, I can’t testify.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani to Be Paid by Kremlin-Backed Conference

September 27, 2019 at 5:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rudy Giuliani, whose actions as President Trump’s personal lawyer have helped set in motion an impeachment inquiry, is set to appear as a paid speaker at a Kremlin-backed conference in Armenia on Tuesday — an event expected to include the participation of Russian President Vladi­mir Putin and other top Russian officials,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani: ‘I Will Be the Hero’

September 26, 2019 at 3:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Elaina Plott spoke to Rudy Giuliani following the release of the whistleblower report and “he was, put simply, very angry.”

Said Giuliani: “It is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and I’m not. And I will be the hero! These morons—when this is over, I will be the hero.”

He added: “I’m not acting as a lawyer. I’m acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government. Anything I did should be praised.”

“Giuliani then unleashed a rant about the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, Barack Obama, the media, and the ‘deep state.'”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Denies Charges In Whistleblower Complaint

September 26, 2019 at 12:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told CNN he has “no knowledge of any of that crap” in the newly-released complaint from an American intelligence community whistleblower.

Asked about details from the complaint that multiple US officials were “deeply concerned” about his activities speaking with Ukrainian officials and nationals, Giuliani called the charge “total nonsense.”

Giuliani also claimed he had a “nice little trail” of text message conversations to prove his story.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

House Launches Probe of Giuliani Pressuring Ukraine

September 9, 2019 at 1:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Three U.S. House of Representatives committees said on Monday they had begun “a wide-ranging investigation” into reports that President Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and possibly others pressured Ukraine’s government to assist Trump’s re-election campaign, Reuters reports.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Trump Wants Barr to Investigate Biden

May 12, 2019 at 3:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told The Guardian that President Trump wants Attorney General William Barr to consider investigating Joe Biden, a potential opponent in next year’s presidential election, over Biden’s ties to Ukraine.

“Giuliani made the remark as fears grew among Democrats that the president will use the US justice department – and even help from foreign officials – to go after his political rivals.”

Giuliani added: “I can’t tell Attorney General Barr what to do. He’s a very, very fine lawyer. My experience with him is that he’s a very honorable man, and he will do the right thing.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani, Wiliam Barr

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