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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Go to Hell
at the national review, no one can hear you scream
Worry troll. Good luck keeping that up here.
And stop judging crap you know nothing abot but from the Sick- Twisted stories from the Trump hate media . No one gives a crap about a drugged addicted hooker porn star stories but Trump haters . The concerned poster crap has gotten Old and Tired too !
I don’t see why the Stormy Daniels story would have affected the vote. The public already knew Donald Trump was an unrepentant serial adulterer. That was “priced in” to the election decision.
The cover-up and its fallout, however, are very messy and distracting.
Shut up—RINO trolls!
Stormy is a stupid story. No one cares. About her. About what Trump said. About what Giuliani said. None of that matters. Total waste of time.
Looks like I stumbled on the Trump-bashing thread of the day.
I agree with you, but the Trumpbots here cannot deal with the truth.
Are you saying Donald Trump lied, for decades, about his affairs? Why on earth would he do that?
Yes, it’s a distraction. Nowdays few care about Russia Russia Russia, and fewer about Stormy Stormy Stormy. The media cats follow the laser. Who’s got the laser?
You can hang out, walk away, lurk, etc., as you choose. I plan to go to Walmart in about ten minutes, myself.
As far as I'm concerned, Donald Trump on his worst day is still better than any Democrat (or Republican Swamp creature, for that matter) on their best.
That is a very interesting question, upon which I will reflect.
Half the men in the country are adulterers.
It is irrelevant. The Stormy Daniels story is nothing more than sloppy and ineffective mud slinging. The whole story reflects only on the people continuing to report it. And not in the good way.
You can drop the Phony Concerned Troll Scam Now !
Your account should be Yanked .
We have enough trouble without dealing with Dems to put up with Never Trumper - Globalist enablers here .
Siding with the America Hating Dem Media and party.
Good Company .
The laser is the manifestation of the propaganda source
GOEBBELS’ PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences
Remember when National Review had interviews with Bill Clinton’s RAPE VICTIMS all over its pages?
Me neither.
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