Sunday, December 2, 2018

Rudy Giuliani might ought to STFU

In an interview with AM 970's The Answer in New York, Giuliani accused Mueller of crossing a line by "intimidating" Trump's allies into saying "what he believes [is] his version of the truth."

“They obviously exerted a lot of pressure on him. Mr. Cohen unfortunately has a history of significant lies in the past," Giuliani told host John Catsimatidis, reacting to Cohen's admission last Thursday that he lied to Congress when he previously detailed to the body the extend of the president's business dealings in Russia.

"This isn’t a search for the truth. It’s a witch hunt," Giuliani continued. "This is what is wrong with these special prosecutors an independent counsels. They think they are God."

"They seemed to want to prosecute people at any cost, including the cost of ethical behavior and the rights of people."

[...]

"They want [Paul Manafort] to give certain forms of evidence that would implicate the president in things that Mr. Manafort says are untrue," Giuliani said.

"And they are pressuring him, and creating a real risk that the man might commit perjury," he added. "This kind of pressure can create the risk of tainted testimony."

  The Hill
What do you think? That statement by Giuliani that Trump's written answers to interrogatories essentially conformed with what Cohen testified to (and Mueller no doubt has receipts for) wasn't quite true, and now they're panicking?

And I'm guessing that any attorney who signed off on those interrogatories better have a good claim that he didn't know they were lies, or he could be in some hot water of his own. 

Although, for Rudy, this would only be one more stick on the fire of his own complicity in the Trump-Russia collusion probe.

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

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