I cannot say it any more plain. If Rudy was on my team, I’d tell him to shut up. This is not an argument over what he thinks, but it is about him announcing what he thinks all the time. It is a kind of public braggadocio that to me is negative in such legal matters. Call me old school, of the Perry Mason type. There is a calculated public persona and one reserved for the courtroom, and even then Mason did not brag about what he would do, not even in court, he just very smartly, very intelligently did it.
I hear what you are saying, but...
If Rudy took the approach you suggest, he would get the same criticism that Sessions gets here. It would appear as if he was content to sit back and watch events take place.
Session has taken a lot of heat on this board for “not acting” (and the jury is still out on him in my opinion because he is likely doing the Perry Mason thing). But if you look at the list of accomplishments (see http://www.magapill.com/ under the DOJ section), there actually has been significant work presented. Just nothing publicized in the area of arresting political criminals, where most of the focus of this forum is.
I think that Trump has to let the justice process play out, without interference to avoid any appearance of impropriety, but he also needs to fight the battle of public opinion. I think Rudy is playing that part with his arguments.
I don’t have any real inside knowledge, and I am no lawyer and wouldn’t want to be one, but that’s my take.
We are past the rule of law. Everything is about political leverage now.
Mueller flouts the law every day - without consequence.
I am not entirely endorsing Giuliani, I am explaining. If we had any Perry Masons anywhere near DC, this would never have started in the first place.
There are no lily-white hats, and I doubt justice will be done.