Ladies and gentlemen, the best lawyer that the President of the United States was able to find: https://t.co/xxSxsZ6hvj
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 17, 2019
There’s an old legal proverb: When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither the facts or the law are on you side — pound the table!
Or it could just be sundowning, but a lifelong grifter like Giuliani would try to make ‘sundowning’ work for him, ala Vincent Gigante.
Rudy said this when Chris Cuomo confronted him with the Special Counsel’s claim that Manafort shared campaign polling data with Konstantin Kalimnik.
— Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) January 17, 2019
Giuliani moves the goalposts again. He no longer claims “no collusion.” He concedes the Trump campaign may have colluded with Russia, but claims Trump did not conspire to hack a server, which he falsely claims is the only potential crime here. https://t.co/6ennR8nAdi
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 17, 2019
I think this dynamic has played out around a dozen more times since I tweeted this seven months ago. https://t.co/e2341HoLTS
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 17, 2019
And this one by Garry. Rudy is still in the lie and slander phase, the late stage of it where you say you never said what you said. https://t.co/ueFnUrTGic
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 17, 2019
I think the grand strategy for Trump is to set up an ineffective assistance of council appeal https://t.co/kfpR2DajLv
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 17, 2019
Maybe Rudy never said the campaign didn’t collude.
But trump said ”nobody” colluded many many times.
There is only one more admission left for them to make. https://t.co/xpUHazjQx2
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) January 17, 2019
Me watching Rudy on @CuomoPrimeTime earlier tonight pic.twitter.com/iOuTfQy3dc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 17, 2019
Counterargument:
Be very clear, Rudy didn’t make a mistake.
He was front-running news he knows is coming.
Softening the shock of revelations he knows Mueller will soon make public.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 17, 2019
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