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?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Trump will be criticized in the media for one allegations or another. The turmoil “the media” has created over Stormy Daniels’ allegations is making “the media” look increasingly more shallow. This is working in Trump’s favor.
Winning!
I agree about the self-inflicted nature of some of the coverage. When you are in a hole, stop digging.
But nothing will appease the media.
And nobody really cares about the affair. Funny how Trump’s team and the Never Cruzers on FR got mileage about of Ted Cruz’s “affairs expose rumors” in one of the tabloids. A bunch of concern trolls they were, too.
Boo-hoo-hoo!
Get outta here. You have decided that you are to sit in judgment of others. What gives you the right to do that.
Rich Lowry and that bunch of holier than thou snakes at Unrational Review are a pit of vipers.
America needs this Presidency and we do not need you and your crew.
Well, with his poll ratings rising, perhaps it is you and other worry warts who can’t deal with the truth.
No fool, it is YOU that can’t deal with the truth. We do not care. Get it?
Socialist networking media like fakebook pimps out the DNC-MSM on the sidebar of the website.
And shares by barking moonbat libs may show up in your wall feed (if you haven't unfollowed those friends, unfriended those friends, or hidden/rejected all content from those news agency pages).
And meanwhile on the landing page of a major search page...
Well uh, actually you should feel stupid by comparison.
Just saying
NBC Lies for a living to protect their heros like Eric schneiderboy.
The problem with Cruz and those rumors (I don’t know whether they were true or not) was that he positioned himself as a holier-than-thou type of politician with his “New York values” crap. He was so dumb as to run that remark in NYC in the middle of Rush Limbaugh’s show! Trump never claimed to be a saint.
Lying LSM always trying to insinuate that the Trump’s marriage is in trouble.
How many stories or even loving pictures have you seen of Obummer and Moochelle? the Clintoons?
Now there ARE a couple of marriages NOT made in Heaven.
Enuf. You and the NRO are full of crap. Rich Lowery is a pompous @ss. I stopped reading anything and everything coming from that rag.
“Serial adulterer?” Get lost!
Excellent Summary.
And, folks... THIS is how you deal with people who express an opinion that varies ever so slightly from your own. You dialogue with them and show them the light. Up to them whether they ever see it or not. But, you don't just DAMN THEM to hell, or banish them to DU (Which, might actually be WORSE than hell)
Lies are very difficult to roll to the top of the pile. The truth floats there like a helium balloon. They try too hard. ;)
Half the men in the country are adulterers.
That certainly begs the question, with whom?
Donald Trump lives inside your head, Troll.
Truth is Rudy loves being in the center of things. He talks to much even if he doesn’t havea the facts.
Try 3 months and 18 days. Fifteen months? Where'd you get that?
This may be the most ridiculous created controversy of all time. Pathetic anti-Trumpers grasping at straws.
That’s the voice of the agnostic athiest libertarian reform party’s ‘concern’. That crowd hates Mike Pence as well.
Unfounded fears of A Handmaid’s Tale type theocracy.
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