Ladies and gentlemen, the best lawyer that the President of the United States was able to find: https://t.co/xxSxsZ6hvj
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 17, 2019
There’s an old legal proverb: When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither the facts or the law are on you side — pound the table!
Or it could just be sundowning, but a lifelong grifter like Giuliani would try to make ‘sundowning’ work for him, ala Vincent Gigante.
Rudy said this when Chris Cuomo confronted him with the Special Counsel’s claim that Manafort shared campaign polling data with Konstantin Kalimnik.
— Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) January 17, 2019
Giuliani moves the goalposts again. He no longer claims “no collusion.” He concedes the Trump campaign may have colluded with Russia, but claims Trump did not conspire to hack a server, which he falsely claims is the only potential crime here. https://t.co/6ennR8nAdi
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 17, 2019
I think this dynamic has played out around a dozen more times since I tweeted this seven months ago. https://t.co/e2341HoLTS
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 17, 2019
And this one by Garry. Rudy is still in the lie and slander phase, the late stage of it where you say you never said what you said. https://t.co/ueFnUrTGic
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 17, 2019
I think the grand strategy for Trump is to set up an ineffective assistance of council appeal https://t.co/kfpR2DajLv
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 17, 2019
Maybe Rudy never said the campaign didn’t collude.
But trump said ”nobody” colluded many many times.
There is only one more admission left for them to make. https://t.co/xpUHazjQx2
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) January 17, 2019
Me watching Rudy on @CuomoPrimeTime earlier tonight pic.twitter.com/iOuTfQy3dc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 17, 2019
Counterargument:
Be very clear, Rudy didn’t make a mistake.
He was front-running news he knows is coming.
Softening the shock of revelations he knows Mueller will soon make public.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 17, 2019
hells littlest angel
CNN should make Giuliani speak with a sheet of clear Plexiglas six inches from his face, so that as he speaks his features are slowly obscured behind a dripping film of spittle.
Balconesfault
If you follow any right wing media … the crime isn’t that our President is a Russian asset … but that the FBI had the audacity to look into that reality to try to determine why.
Baud
A couple of months from now: “I didn’t say the President didn’t enter into a criminal conspiracy with Russia. I said he didn’t collude. Completely different.”
Fair Economist
@Baud: I think Trump already said something like that.
oatler.
To repeat Cole’s pinned tweet:
Just imagine if Democrats were doing any of this shit. Any of it.
El Jeffe
The Mueller She Wrote podcast calls this ‘lubing the truth.’
Sphouch
Tainting jury pools 101.
different-church-lady
Ah. So Trump conspired to hack a server.
Snarki, child of Loki
Trump+Giuliani = proof that dementia is infectious.
chopper
@Balconesfault:
this is standard RW framing. it’s not the crime that’s offensive, it’s the revealing of it. how dare you!
sdhays
@different-church-lady: The evidence right now shows that his campaign chairman was funneling campaign polling information to Russia, nothing to do with hacking. If the ASSet directed him to do this or permitted him to do this, it’s still a felony conspiracy. The hacking isn’t what makes all of this illegal.
Of course, he conspired to hack Hillary’s email server on national television, so there’s that as well.
AnotherBruce
It’s amazing to me that hacks like Rudy just will not shut up when it’s against his interest. Being on television is a hell of a drug. It’s apparent that if people would just ignore these cretins, they would wither away.
different-church-lady
@sdhays: yeah, but if Rudy says he didn’t do it, that automatically means he did do it.
hitchhiker
And 30% of voters are still saying they’re definitely planning to vote for him in 2020.
Some of them are not paying attention to news at all, having been persuaded by their pastors that it’s their duty to elect people who say that abortion is murder.
Some of them are salivating over a glorious repeat of 2016, having been persuaded by the ugliest of their media that the libs despise them & that there’s nothing better in life than “owning” them.
Some of them are actively working to undermine the country, for reasons we’ll probably never know.
There’s some overlap, of course.
I’m trying to be patient with the various legal processes, and with the various political processes … but I won’t be at home in my own country until all of these people are removed from office, one way or another. Fuckers.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Not the brightest bulbs in the box are they?
Awwww, the theory that when in a hole keep digging. Used by idiots everywhere to prove exactly how dumb they are. Usually proceeded by “Hold my beer and watch this!” But in this case alcohol is not an excuse. Dementia might be but these guys are too demented to use that.
Ruckus
Dementia.
I’ve watched it closely, twice. This is what it very often looks like.
Uncle Cosmo
America’s Goombah (C) is cordially invited to go pound sand.. Hopefully Ghouliani will get swept up with the other crooks & live out his days in a trumpsuit (which is what I devoutly hope is very soon the common term for an orange-colored jumpsuit) dining on prison cuisine.
Denali
I don’t understand why anyone pays attention to RG. Like T, ignore him. Surely we have better things to do.
kindness
I’m going with the Hoarse Whisperer’s take. Rudy is sowing the field so it won’t hurt as much.
That Republicans in Congress & the msm are still defending Trump’s conduct wrt Putin/Russia is horrifying. That Republicans are covering up bribery, blackmail & graft of Trump/Russian Oligarchs is criminal. I think Mitch is more concerned with covering his own ass as far as Mueller goes.
Republicans are all using chaos as cover, taking all our eyes off the ball. It’s working with most the msm.
Chris Johnson
He would only be saying this if Trump literally, repeatedly, brazenly colluded the whole time.
‘cos he’s still weaseling out of something much bigger, and look at him now.
Aleta
-WSJ
artem1s
@Uncle Cosmo:
I’m betting a lot of people would be happy to make that a thing.
Brachiator
The entire Republican Party leadership are members of a criminal enterprise.
Kenneth Kohl
@kindness:
methinks a number of them have had their consciouses assuaged by rubles.