The Giuliani Follies

Is Giuliani trying to get fired?

Manafort was apparently sharing polling data with the Russians as the chairman of Trump’s 2016 election bid. This is known as “collusion”. Since that revelation, Rudy Giuliani has started to act “strangely”.

First and foremost, he went off script on CNN of all places and ADMITTED that this sharing of polling data constitutes “collusion” on the part of some in the Trump Camp, just not on the part of Trump himself. He maintained that he only ever said that Trump had not colluded…that this denial did not cover anyone else. Of course, this is total BS, as the replaying of his many, many denials of any collusion on the part of anyone since he was hired by Trump make clear.

Later, in an interview with the NYT, Giuliani apparently took the position that negotiations around building a Trump Tower in Moscow went ahead throughout the 2016 campaign, citing Trump himself as the source. 

Finally, he has also commended that some people working on the Mueller team as “good people”.

The Trump Camp’s standard lines are that there was no collusion by anyone, ever; that any negotiations regarding a Trump Tower in Moscow were over before he announced that he was running for office; and that the Mueller investigation is a “witch hunt” by pro-Democrat “deep staters”.

Holy Trumpian Chaos Batman!  

This bears repeating, so to recap – ACCORDING TO TRUMP’S PERSONAL LAWYER there WAS collusion; Trump admitted that the Trump Tower negotiations went on throughout the campaign (but this is not a crime); and Mueller has some good people working for him!  

Giuliani has walked all of these comments back, still, how does he still have a job!?

As noted on this blog previously, the revelation that polling data was shared with the Russians has likely rocked the Trump Team to the core. (…the Trump Camp may have done it so that the Russians could assess the effectiveness of their “fake news” propaganda campaign on Trump’s behalf, and/or to help them target their campaign on states where Trump had a chance for a breakthrough…like Minnesota…) Giuliani probably does not want to go down in history as the lawyer who represented the guy who tried to steal an election with the help of the Russians.

Giuliani is not an idiot. He knows he is off script. 

What else does he know?