You Will Anyway: Did they hire Rudy to make Trump look smart by comparison?

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Did they hire Rudy to make Trump look smart by comparison?

It could almost work.

Michael Cohen, the embattled longtime personal attorney to President Donald Trump, is no longer playing an active role representing Trump, according to one of the president’s newest lawyers, Rudy Giuliani.

“As far as we know, he’s not,” Giuliani told POLITICO in an interview Friday. “And there’d be nothing for him to do right now.”

Politico

Who the heck is "we", Rudy? You and the mouse in your pocket? Surely Trump knows whether Cohen is his attorney or not.

Trump as recently as last month said Cohen was still representing him in a personal capacity when he told reporters that he didn’t know about a payment Cohen had made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels just weeks before the 2016 presidential election in a bid to help keep her silent about a decade-old alleged affair.

“You have to ask Michael Cohen,” the president said on Air Force One on April 5. “Michael’s my attorney and you’ll have to ask Michael.”

Giuliani said the Trump-Cohen lawyer relationship was still going “probably up until then,” referring to that early April statement by the president to reporters. The president’s current legal team, which Giuliani joined in late April, has “never really determined” a precise day when Cohen stepped away.

That's not how it works, Rudy. If he didn't say anything about not wanting to be Trump's attorney any more, then he never "stepped away". And if Trump was still paying him in any way, Trump didn't "step away" from the relationship. Did Trump and/or Cohen discuss this since Trump called him his lawyer? It's not up Trump's "current legal team" to determine an end to the relationship.

Giuliani in the Friday interview said he isn’t concerned about legal exposure to the president surrounding Cohen’s role on the Russia case.

“I don’t think he was involved enough,” he said. “It might be enough to conflict him but not enough where he had any substantial knowledge or involvement.”

Dear news outlets: if you are interviewing Rudy Giuliani, you are wasting your viewers' time.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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