Making his Sunday show rounds, Trump attorney Rudy “I am Everywhere” Giuliani appeared on New York’s 970 AM to drop some science.
Rudy told host John Catsimatidis that Michael Cohen’s secret tapes prove the Mueller investigation is a wash: as for Robert finding any Trump-Russia ties, the probe “is going nowhere.”
“In that sense, they prove that this investigation is going nowhere. … Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong; he didn’t commit a crime of any kind.”
Rudy said he heard a tape of Cohen and CNN’s Chris Cuomo, in which they discussed the arranged payment to porno princess Stormy Daniels to keep her mouth shut (a polar-opposite kind of change for Daniels) over an alleged 2006 affair.
“Cohen, over and over again, answered Chris Cuomo’s questions by saying, ‘[Trump] didn’t know about it; I did it on my own.'”
The recently-touted story of Trump’s payoff over an alleged romance with Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal (covered here) was first reported by The New York Times, and the result seems to have been a shift in the Trump/Cohen rift toward a focus on secretly-recorded conversations.
Mueller is moving to those tapes, which, to some, signals a new level of desperation on the part of the Justice Department’s special counsel.
Giuliani thinks the whole thing will be “ending soon.” So does, incidentally, National Security Advisor John Bolton (explained here).
Rudy characterizes the investigation in the same terms as Bolton:
Trump and his allies have repeatedly tried to discredit Mueller’s inquiry by labeling it a “witch hunt.”
A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018
The Russia Witch Hunt is rapidly losing credibility. House Intelligence Committee found No Collusion, Coordination or anything else with Russia. So now the Probe says OK, what else is there? How about Obstruction for a made up, phony crime.There is no O, it’s called Fighting Back
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2018
Is this Phony Witch Hunt going to go on even longer so it wrongfully impacts the Mid-Term Elections, which is what the Democrats always intended? Republicans better get tough and smart before it is too late!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2018
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history – led by some very bad and conflicted people! #MAGA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2017
"The President believes that the next bilateral meeting with President Putin should take place after the Russia witch hunt is over, so we’ve agreed that it will be after the first of the year," the statement from Bolton reads. https://t.co/jZt0qkyKrn
— NPR (@NPR) July 25, 2018
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