Not sure of the details, but I’m going to assume if Rudy says something, he’s lying:
President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday he doubted the veracity of a bombshell NBC News report from earlier in the day that federal authorities wiretapped the president’s longtime counsel, Michael Cohen.
“Us lawyers have talked about it, we don’t believe it’s true,” Giuliani told The Daily Beast. “We think it’s going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal. You can’t wiretap a lawyer, you certainly can’t wiretap his client who’s not involved in the investigation. No one has suggested that Trump was involved in that investigation. So they’re going to wiretap the lawyer, his client, and his client the president of the United States? I don’t think so, not if they want to stay out of jail. Disclosing a wiretap is a federal felony. I never took ‘em home when I was a U.S. attorney.”
Giuliani said that he found out about the wiretap news from NBC News’ report, which cited “two people with knowledge of the legal proceedings,” and not from Cohen himself. He believed someone in the Justice Department was behind the leak.
“Nobody else would know about it,” Giuliani said. “Cohen didn’t know about it, so it has to be the FBI, the independent counsel, or the Justice Department.”
“Anybody who says that I’m exaggerating when I say that this is an out-of-control investigation and they’re acting like storm troopers—give me a break, baby! They prove it every day.”
The former New York City mayor is in the midst of a media blitz that has upended previous Trump-world talking points and caused ripple effects across a variety of legal and political fronts. Only recently added to Trump’s legal team, Giuliani said that the Cohen news makes him even more hesitant to let the president sit down for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his separate probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
“Right now, the odds are against it,” he said. “Look at all of the bad faith we’re seeing here. And whether this wiretap story is true or not true, it’s bad faith to leak it. We should find out about this with a notification from the Justice Department, they’re wiretapping the pres of the United States, they’re wiretapping a man talking to his lawyer and then they want us to cooperate? We’re not suckers.”
Trump is a liar and at the moment Rudy is his chief facilitator.
Although this morning it appears that Trump has turned on Rudy, claiming that he’s the village idiot who can’t get his facts straight.
When you work for Trump’s you will never get your facts straight because Trump makes up the facts as he goes along.
Primary season begins in Indiana next week and then spreads across the country.
Vote.