Posted on 05/08/2018 4:20:47 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Rudy Giuliani’s account of Donald Trump’s role in the payment to Stormy Daniels has collapsed into near-incoherence.
In his latest interviews, the newly minted Trump lawyer has adopted a posture of impenetrable epistemological modesty — there’s nothing he knows about the case, or can possibly learn about it anytime soon. Giuliani retreated to this tack after directly contradicting the president’s denial of knowing anything about the hush money, and getting rebuked by Trump for being ill-informed and not yet up to speed.
It shouldn’t be this complicated. Getting their story straight would be much easier if they adopted a simple, nay simplistic, legal and political strategy — telling the truth.
Giuliani shocked the political world when he said last week that Trump had reimbursed his fixer Michael Cohen for the payout to the porn star. Rudy declared that this made it a private transaction, and therefore it couldn’t be a campaign-finance violation. Case closed.
But the legal reasoning wasn’t airtight — if Cohen made the payment to influence the campaign, it didn’t matter if Trump paid it back or not — and Trump wasn’t ready to endorse Rudy’s version of events.
By this past weekend, the former New York City mayor was on This Week on ABC News, incapable of saying much of anything at all. Had, George Stephanopoulos asked, Trump met Stormy Daniels? “It depends,” Giuliani replied, “on kind of what you mean by met her, right?”
When did Trump first learn Daniels asked for payment? “Don’t know and doesn’t matter to me.” Stephanopoulos pointed out that Giuliani told the website BuzzFeed that Cohen complained to Trump about not getting paid back after the 2016 campaign. So, the president knew about the payment after the campaign?
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Name a President in many decades who was not a philanderer or gay. Can’t can you? Name a President since Reagan who worked FOR America. Can’t do that either.
OK, Stormy Daniels is a whore who worked VIP events for sex work. She got some at a Trump event. She then blackmailed him. His crony paid her off. Trump gave the crony his money back.
Worst case?
Then who cares? I don’t care. I didn’t even care when bill Clinton hosed a pathetic lonely fat girl.
“I agree with you, but the Trumpbots here cannot deal with the truth. “
Well, this ardent Trump Supporter, thinks you should put a sock in it! This is all an unnecessary “sideshow,” and people like you abet it. You should be ashamed to be contributing in any way to it!
“Rudy versus Mueller: Round Two”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/rudy_versus_mueller_round_two.html
If Trump’s performance in office for the last fifteen months is any guide, we should send the GOP congressional leadership Stormy Daniels gift certificates.
The sideshow will continue until Trump and his spokesmen gets their story straight, as Lowry is urging.
If I had a cabin with an “outdoor facility,” I'd subscribe to the NR in order to have something to wipe with. Maybe that's why there are “heavy NR subscriptions” in rural Tennessee, Kentucky, and WVA.
For once I totally agree with you!
We’ve lost Rich Lowry?
Are Susan Collins and John Mcain far behind? Whatever will we do without the elite Republicans to guide us?
Sounds like he is longing for the rule of GWB where everyone knew their place as the designated losers.
Trolls ping each other. We all know how you trolls roll.
Yes, I banged her and paid her to keep quiet about it. Now she's blackmailing me for consensual sex. **** her and **** you.
To say he IS a serial adulterer implies he’s still at it; there’s no evidence that’s the case.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact the great majority of us who voted for Trump didn’t cast our vote for a Pope — we voted to keep the criminal Hillary Clinton away from the levers of power, restore American power internationally, put some life back in the economy, and to secure America’s border. The first three have been achieved and the fourth is in progress.
What may or may not have happened in 2006 with that porn star — if anything truly DID happen — it’s between Donald and Melania Trump.
he is a great man, has a great family, and he has great character.
“The cover-up and its fallout”
Why do you assume the virginal Stormy Daniels is telling the truth? Why would she insist on parading her story if it is true? She regrets her lost innocence from the event? We certainly know why she is parading her story if it is not true. And most people can understand that the hush money contract is something that you keep hushed, by definition.
She appeared just before the vote. Have you ever heard of an October Surprise?
She saw a chance to cash in and Cohen was right to shut her up.
I have yet to meet a female who does not scorn her and her story. And she has changed her story. I saw a clip of her on one of those late night shows where she denied she had an affair with Trump.
But the Soros crowd thinks this is just one more negative to pile up on Trump.
She has now become loathsome, but Leftists cannot detect loathsome.
And if the administration had settled on a single story at the beginning and stuck with it then people wouldn't continue to report on it. A lot of this aggravation is self-inflicted.
>>Getting their story straight would be much easier
What story? What issue is at stake here?
This isn’t a MeToo case or workplace sexual affairs as was the case with Monica vs Paula Jones.
That he has had affairs?
That a non-disclosure agreement no longer means diddly squat?
The media sure never wanted to entertain the tales by a gay man of a cocaine fueled sex romp in a limbo with Barack Obama.
>>The media cats follow the laser. Who’s got the laser?
Well there ARE those weird stories about his handshakes with heads of state < /sarcasm >
“The sideshow will continue until Trump and his spokesmen gets their story straight, as Lowry is urging.”
The sideshow would go away if people like you and Lowry would just shut your pie holes!
It offends me that people like you think that this is important $hit. You are no better than Robert Mueller in that you seek to burn up valuable time dicking around with something that is of no consequence to the country. Men have sex with women, Trump is not a virgin, get over it!
While on the subject of Stormy Daniels, I’m curious if she ever paid taxes on that $130K.
Bill Clinton paid Monica off to lie under oath for him (see the Ronald Perelman job offer).
The trail of why the other Clinton scandals never got much corroboration testimony can be found in Fornigate.
Bribes, threats, intimidation.
People went to prison for refusing to testify against the Clinton crime syndicate.
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