Thank God for Uncle Rudy
Uncle Rudy used to be New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani long before becoming President Trump’s lawyer. What a difference 17 years makes. The commanding leader who helped America navigate the horror of 9/11 is again making the TV rounds, but this time he seems to be speaking English as a second language.
.. On CNN, Giuliani had talked about a pre-meeting of Trump aides to discuss a strategy for the infamous June 9, 2016, meeting that took place a few days later at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and members of a Russian delegation.
.. But, apparently, there was no such pre-meeting, Giuliani tried to explain on “Outnumbered.” He said he had heard about it from reporters, who had apparently heard about it from Michael Cohen
.. Giuliani said he’d only brought up the pretend pre-meeting because he was trying to get ahead of the story. (Believe me, I’m making this easy for you.)
.. Cohen is reportedly prepared to tell Mueller that the president knew ahead of time about the June 9 meeting, which, if true, could suggest collusion with the Kremlin to interfere with the 2016 election. Unless Cohen or someone else can provide corroborating evidence, then Trump’s denial stands.
.. Giuliani scoffed at the notion that Trump knew of the meeting, and the attorney added that he doesn’t believe collusion is against the law. “I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime,” he said during the “Fox & Friends” interview. “Collusion is not a crime.”
Later on CNN, he said, “I don’t even know if that’s a crime — colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn’t hack. He didn’t pay for the hacking.”
.. But, as lawyer Giuliani surely knows, conspiracy to defraud the United States, if found to be the case, would be a criminal offense under 18 U.S.C. 371.
.. If Nixon knew in advance of the burglary, then he’d have been at least a co-conspirator, if not an accessory to the crime. It has never been conclusively established that he did know beforehand, though he certainly did lie and participate in an attempted coverup.
.. If Nixon knew in advance of the burglary, then he’d have been at least a co-conspirator, if not an accessory to the crime. It has never been conclusively established that he did know beforehand, though he certainly did lie and participate in an attempted coverup.