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Giuliani Confident Manafort Won’t Incriminate Trump

September 17, 2018 at 10:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump’s lead lawyer said Monday that attorneys for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort have reiterated that the president has nothing to fear from Manafort’s cooperation with federal investigators,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump attorney Rudy. Giuliani said that Manafort’s legal team assured him as recently as Saturday — the day after Manafort struck a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller — that he has no information that will incriminate the president or his family, including eldest son Donald Trump Jr.”

Filed Under: Political Consultants Tagged With: Paul Manafort, Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani’s Ex-Wife to Write Tell-All About Him

September 8, 2018 at 11:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rudy Giuliani’s feisty soon-to-be ex-wife Judith Nathan Giuliani is writing an explosive book about her estranged husband and his inner circle of powerful allies,” the New York Post reports.

“A source close to Judith said she has been in talks with at least three publishing houses about her book, which promises to lift the lid on the private side of President Trump’s prevaricating personal lawyer and the wealthy circles he operates in.”

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

September 3, 2018 at 6:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I don’t care about my legacy. I’ll be dead.”

— Rudy Giuliani, in an interview with the New Yorker.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani


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How Giuliani Turned Into Trump’s Clown

September 3, 2018 at 8:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jeffrey Toobin: “Since joining Trump’s team, Giuliani has greeted every new development as a vindication, even when he’s had to bend and warp the evidence in front of him. Like Trump, he characterizes the Mueller probe as a ‘witch hunt’ and the prosecutors as ‘thugs.’ He has, in effect, become the legal auxiliary to Trump’s Twitter feed, peddling the same chaotic mixture of non sequiturs, exaggerations, half-truths, and falsehoods. Giuliani, like the President, is not seeking converts but comforting the converted.”

“This has come at considerable cost to his reputation. As a prosecutor, Giuliani was the sheriff of Wall Street and the bane of organized crime. As mayor, he was the law-and-order leader who kicked ‘squeegee men’ off the streets of New York. Now he’s a talking head spouting nonsense on cable news. But this version of Giuliani isn’t new; Trump has merely tapped into tendencies that have been evident all along.”

“Trump learned about law and politics from his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious sidekick to Joseph McCarthy who, as a lawyer in New York, became a legendary brawler and used the media to bash adversaries. In the early months of his Presidency, as Mueller’s investigation was getting under way, Trump is said to have raged, ‘Where’s my Roy Cohn?’ In Giuliani, the President has found him.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Trump Lawyers Drafting ‘Counter Report’ to Mueller

August 30, 2018 at 5:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told the Daily Beast that President Trump’s legal team is crafting a “counter-report” that will seek to delegitimize special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and present countervailing arguments.

Said Giuliani: “The first half of it is 58 pages, and second half isn’t done yet… It needs an executive summary if it goes over a hundred.”

“Giuliani said that Trump’s legal team had not conducted any original interviews or investigation for their current draft.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Robert Mueller, Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Was Paid to Lobby Romanian President

August 29, 2018 at 10:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani “was being paid by a global consulting firm when he sent a letter to the president of Romania last week that contradicted the U.S. government’s official position,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: Lobbyists Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Quote of the Day

August 28, 2018 at 11:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“You probably can’t do this without making a mistake or two. Mueller is now slightly more distrusted than trusted, and Trump is a little ahead of the game. So I think we’ve done really well. And my client’s happy.”

— Rudy Giuliani, in an interview with the New York Times.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Says Mueller Isn’t Responding

August 27, 2018 at 11:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani said that President Trump’s lawyers have not heard back from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office in nearly three weeks, CNN reports.

Said Giuliani: “I figured we wouldn’t hear until after the Manafort trial, but we still haven’t.”

He said Mueller’s office has told them it is “still studying” the latest letter from Trump’s team, which Giuliani said was only five to six pages.

He added: “I have to figure they’re planning something.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Details His Strategy to Defend Trump

August 27, 2018 at 6:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani “detailed for the first time his strategy for representing the president, in blunt and divisively political terms,” the New York Times reports.

He said that he believes that since Trump is essentially having his day in court, in real time, his “jury is the public.”

The aggressive defense “starts with his base, then it stretches out to independents — then to Democrats”…  He readily acknowledged that he would never win over many on the left, but maintained that for others, impeachment was “going too far.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Says Mueller Needs to Wrap Up Probe

August 26, 2018 at 7:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani is willing to concede that special counsel Robert Mueller is conducting a fair investigation into alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia — but only if Mueller wraps it up in the next two weeks and finds Donald Trump innocent.

Tweeted Giuliani: “Just a few days before 60 day run-up to 2018 elections. If Mueller wants to show he’s not partisan, then issue a report on collusion and obstruction. They will show President Trump did nothing wrong. Then we will have to admit you were fair. And we will.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Robert Mueller, Rudy Giuliani

Exchange of the Day

August 15, 2018 at 7:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani was interviewed by Chris Cuomo last night on CNN:

GIULIANI: It’s in the eye of the beholder.

CUOMO: No, facts are not in the eye of the beholder.

GIUILIANI: Nowadays they are.

Filed Under: Trends Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Quote of the Day

July 30, 2018 at 9:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Collusion is not a crime.”

— Rudy Giuliani, trying a new angle in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Trump’s Old Lawyer Criticizes His New One

July 28, 2018 at 8:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Trump lawyer Jay Goldberg tore into Rudy Giuliani on CNN saying he is seriously hurting the president’s case against Michael Cohen.

Said Goldberg: “I knew as soon as Giuliani spoke that he was damaging Trump’s case immeasurably. It ranks near 100 in terms of damage.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Jay Goldberg, Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani, Then and Now

July 27, 2018 at 1:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The man is an honest, honorable lawyer.”

— Rudy Giuliani, talking about Michael Cohen on ABC News on May 6, 2018.

“He has lied all his life… a person who is found to be an incredible liar.”

— Giuliani, about Cohen on CNN last night.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani

Quote of the Day

July 25, 2018 at 1:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It’s a little bit hard to hear, but I assure you that we listened to it numerous, numerous times, and the transcript makes it quite clear at the end that President Trump says, quote, ‘Don’t pay with cash.’ Go online. Listen to your broadcast… The third time you play it, it’ll become clear.”

— Rudy Giuliani, in an interview with Fox News, on the audio tape released by Michael Cohen in which he discusses paying off a Playboy model with Donald Trump.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani

Bonus Quote of the Day

July 13, 2018 at 9:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Peter Strzok’s testimony was a disgrace. It taints the entire Mueller witchhunt. President Trump is being investigated by people who possess pathological hatred for him. All the results of the investigation are ‘fruit of the poison tree’ and should be dismissed.”

— Rudy Giuliani, on Twitter.

Filed Under: House of Representatives Tagged With: Peter Strzok, Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Still Working for Foreign Clients

July 10, 2018 at 4:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani “continues to work on behalf of foreign clients both personally and through his namesake security firm while serving as President Trump’s personal attorney — an arrangement experts say raises conflict of interest concerns and could run afoul of federal ethics laws,” the Washington Post reports.

“He has never registered with the Justice Department on behalf of his overseas clients, asserting it is not necessary because he does not directly lobby the U.S. government and is not charging Trump for his services. His decision to continue representing foreign entities also departs from standard practice for presidential attorneys, who in the past have generally sought to sever any ties that could create conflicts with their client in the White House.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Says Russia Investigation Is Corrupt

July 8, 2018 at 12:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani said the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller is “the most corrupt investigation I have ever seen,” Politico reports.

Said Giuliani: “We can’t find an incriminating anything, and we need a basis for this investigation, particularly since we now know it was started from biased — by biased origins.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Robert Mueller, Rudy Giuliani

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