Rudy Giuliani Calls into Radio Show & Creates PR Disaster For Trump/GOP

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is continuing his work to understand the full breadth of Russian interference in the 2016 electoral cycle, and President Donald Trump and his associates’ attempts to put a stop to that investigation continue to fail. As the inquiry gets closer to the president, they’re apparently trying out a new defense — stupidity. This week, on a radio show with Fox host Brian Kilmeade, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed that the president just doesn’t remember how long efforts to construct a Trump Tower Moscow continued for.

His former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was recently sentenced to three years in jail for crimes including lying about that project. He’d told Congress that it ended in January 2016, when in fact, Cohen had continued negotiations up until mid-2016, around the time that Donald Trump was formally named the Republican Party’s 2016 nominee for president.

During that presidential race, Trump claimed that he had nothing to do with Russia, including on the business front, despite the existence of the Trump Tower Moscow project. Again taking the most extreme route in the situation, Giuliani has opted to reconcile that claim with reality by claiming Trump just didn’t know what he was talking about — but it doesn’t matter.

As he explained it:

‘He wasn’t doing business in Moscow… the simple fact is he doesn’t remember how long it went. So we answered the question so there’s no perjury involved by saying he and Cohen discussed the Moscow proposal. And he says as far as he’s concerned, it could be anywhere up to November of 2016.’

Giuliani was discussing the written answers Trump had submitted for Mueller’s team, which finally emerged in recent weeks after months of negotiations over how the president would answer questions from the special counsel.

Ironically, although insisting that the president just doesn’t know what he’s talking about but it doesn’t matter is a questionable at best legal defense, Giuliani’s comments do further confirm what plenty of us could already observe about how deeply mired in his nonsense Trump really is.

You’d hope that a president of the United States would remember the even approximate dates of a project to establish a real estate foothold in a nation he’d long had a documented business interest in — and yet here we are.

It’s not the only nonsense line from the Trump team. During his same explanation of what he personally does or doesn’t know, Giuliani told Kilmeade that “Mueller’s person” had “wiped” the phones of former FBI staffers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in order to conceal anti-Trump sentiment that could condemn the whole Mueller investigation as illegitimate.

That never happened. A simple technical error is responsible for the missing texts, and they’ve since been recovered, although the president of the United States trumpeted a claim to the contrary anyway.

You’d hope that a president of the United States would be at least somewhat trustworthy when it comes to the basic facts of a situation — but here we are anyway. The Trump team modus operandi continues to be best described by Giuliani himself, who triumphantly proclaimed during a cable news appearance that “truth isn’t truth!”

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