Posted on 05/03/2018 12:14:59 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.
“I am waiting for the Attorney General to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,” Giuliani said, reacting to an NBC News report that phones belonging to Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, had been tapped by investigators.
The former New York City mayor argued that the reported wiretapping of Cohen, if true, was a blatant transgression of attorney-client privilege.
Giuliani, who joined President Trump’s personal legal team about two weeks ago, predicted that Trump would share his anger at the reported wiretapping, though he said he had not yet spoken to the president about it.
When he does so, Giuliani predicted, “He is going to say to me, ‘Isn’t there an attorney-client privilege?’ And I am going to tell him, ‘No, the Department of Justice seems to want to trample all over the Constitution of the United States.’ ”
Giuliani’s explosive comments further heighten the stakes in the legal battles in which Trump is enmeshed.
It is extraordinary, by any measure, for a member of the president’s personal legal team to suggest that the attorney general should intervene in an investigation that affects the president.
But Giuliani said that a wiretapping of Cohen would amount to “gross misconduct” by the government. He further alleged that “this case has been surrounded by numerous acts” that fit that description.
Giuliani added sarcastically, “And they don’t even notify us? I mean, he’s only the president of the United States.”
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He's the lowest of the low.
Rudy!
My gut tells me sessions is going to be fired and Rudy is going to be the new AG
Rudy is on the attack.
Rudy, Sessions likes to be wined and dined first...Then maybe he’ll change his mind on overthrowing President Trump /s
Oh, wait. He'll be fired the moment the next Democrat president takes office.
At which point, any and all criticism of the President will be racism.
How about the fact that our president, any president, is being wire tapped by people within the gov’t. Who ordered that?
What the hell is going on here?
Let’s get Newt on the team also.
My gut says Rosenstein will get the boot.
At least someone is finally publicly speaking up among Trump’s attorneys. But enough to wake up Sessions?
You can’t have a better defense strategy than that.
I’ll take it.
I would urge Rudy to seek a Writ of Prohibition in the Supreme Court, against any use of the highly questionable fruits of the Mueller investigation in any Federal Court, citing the wholesale irregularities & bullying tactics, as against the very suspect basis claimed to justify what has been done, and focusing also on the gravity of the distraction from the extremely critical nature of what is on the President's plate this year, on both the foreign & domestic front.
The balance, at this point is so one-sided in the President's favor, I think he might get the Writ, which would make the continued Mueller antics moot.
We may finally find out if they “have the goods” on Sessions or if he is just a deep state stooge. The disloyalty Sessions has shown for the man who made him AG is breathtaking.
Benedict Arnold Sessions should be hanging from a lamppost on Pennsylvania Ave.
No way will the USSC take it up.
Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 2 months, 24 days.
Shouldn’t the Magooites be pitching a defense of the lil’ fellow?
Good luck with that Rudy.
Sessions wanted the title, but not the job.
Plus he would have to ask for permission from Rosenweasel.
Sessions is wide awake. The day Rosenstein was revealed to be a felon [re the illegal FISA warrant] Sessions was as fast as lightning. His lavish, highly public praise of Rosenstein had the effect of completely undercutting the news of Rosenstein’s criminality. It was a disgraceful showing on the part of the titular AG.
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