Trump despises the mainstream media for reporting things he actually says and does without allowing him to control the narrative. Perhaps what he should be trying to control, however, are people in his own inner circle.
The Atlantic reported on Friday that Trump’s own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said that a counter report to Mueller’s has not been drafted and has been impossible to begin as the legal team worked on answering the questions Mueller sent to Trump. This directly contradicts Trump’s insistence that he answered those questions himself. According to Giuliani himself in statements given to the media:
‘Giuliani said it’s been difficult in the past few months to even consider drafting response plans, or devote time to the “counter-report” he claimed they were working on this summer as he and Trump confronted Mueller’s written questions about the 2016 campaign.’
The two men, who purport to be working together on Trump’s legal defense, constantly contradict one another. Somehow, Giuliani has not been fired even though it is clear that either he’s lying or the president is. It would be no surprise to find that either one of them has lied, however, as both have been caught in numerous lies in the past.
What is most interesting about Trump’s tweet and Giuliani’s statement is the question of why Trump needs a counter report that is already 87 pages long if he truly believes that Mueller has no evidence that the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, and possibly with Trump’s knowledge and at his direction, colluded with Kremlin operatives.
Another question that needs to be asked is how Trump and his lawyers already know enough about the investigation to be countering their claims. Did that information come from Paul Manafort, who worked as a spy inside the investigation under the guise of cooperation, or from Trump’s acting AG Matt Whitaker, who is believed to have already been illegally feeding Trump information?
Twitter is exasperated with Trump’s endless contradictions. Read some of their comments below:
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