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Rudy Giuliani: Stormy Daniels $130K Hush Money Was To Protect Trump Family

Donald Trump’s newly-installed lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is in serious spin mode as he attempts to walk back his comments that the Trumpster knew about the $130K “hush money” to porn star Stormy Daniels and has since repaid the funds to longtime “fixer” Michael Cohen.

Giuliani issued an official statement today “intended to clarify the views I expressed over the past few days.”

First: There is no campaign violation. The payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the President’s family. It would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not.

Second: My references to timing were not describing my understanding of the President’s knowledge, but instead, my understanding of these matters.

Third: It is undisputed that the President’s dismissal of former Director Comey – an inferior executive officer – was clearly within his Article II power. Recent revelations about former Director Comey further confirm the wisdom of the President’s decision, which was plainly in the best interests of our nation.

This comes on the heels of Trump throwing Giuliani under the bus this morning saying the former NYC mayor “had just started, and he wasn’t totally familiar with everything.”

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Trump Throws Rudy Giuliani Under The Bus: “He Started Yesterday. He Will Get His Facts Straight.”

Donald Trump threw his new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, under the bus twice this morning as he addressed Giuliani’s recent remarks saying the Donald knew about and repaid a $130K “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

“He started yesterday. He will get his facts straight,” Trump said of Giuliani on his way to the NRA convention in Texas. “Virtually everything that’s been said has been said incorrectly.”

Arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Trump again discussed Giuliani with reporters, saying he’s a “special guy” who is new on the job.

“When Rudy made the statements — Rudy is great — but Rudy had just started, and he wasn’t totally familiar with everything,” Trump said.

Trump also denied he once told reporters he didn’t know about the Stormy Daniels payment:

“You take a look at what I said … You go take a look at what we said.”

Well, let’s go to the video tape. Here’s what Trump said in April on Air Force One about the Stormy Daniels payment:

Reporter: “Mr. President did you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?”

Trump: “No. No.”

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Giuliani: Trump Repaid Michael Cohen $130K Stormy Daniels Hush Money

The political world is all agog today as Donald Trump’s newest legal eagle, former NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last night that Trump did, indeed, repay his other lawyer Michael Cohen for the infamous $130K hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels. From HuffPost:

“It’s going to turn out to be perfectly legal; that money was not campaign money,” Giuliani, Trump’s new lead attorney regarding issues related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“Sorry, I’m giving you a fact now that you don’t know,” Giuliani continued, before saying that the payment was “funneled through a law firm, and then the president repaid it.”

The news directly contradicts Trump’s statements last month that he had no knowledge that Cohen had paid Daniels. Reporters aboard Air Force One had asked whether Trump knew about the payment, to which the president replied: “No.”

“You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen,” Trump said when pressed on the issue. “Michael is my attorney. You’ll have to ask Michael.”

The Trumpster’s Twitter account attempted to address the issue today. Although, I think a lawyer wrote these tweets as they don’t have Trump’s signature caps-lock yelling and errant air quotes.

The Twitterverse, of course, chimed in:

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Rudy Giuliani Admits Trump Campaign Receiving Leaked Info From FBI

During a television interview today, Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani admitted he and the Trump campaign have been receiving leaked information from inside the FBI for months, including the agency’s plan to review additional emails found on a laptop shared by Clinton aide, Huma Abedin.

From Huffington Post:

The former New York City mayor and Trump surrogate has recently dropped a series of hints that he knew in advance that the FBI planned to look at emails potentially connected to Clinton’s private server. The agency discovered the messages while investigating former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) for allegedly sexting with a minor. (Weiner’s estranged wife, Huma Abedin, is a top aide to Clinton.)

Giuliani has bragged about his close ties to the FBI for months, mentioning in interviews that “outraged FBI agents” have told him they’re frustrated by how the Clinton investigation was handled. And two days before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency was reviewing the newly uncovered emails, Giuliani teased that Trump’s campaign had “a couple of surprises left.”

“You’ll see, and I think it will be enormously effective,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

All of this has led to suspicion that someone in the FBI is leaking information to Giuliani and the Trump campaign. The Daily Beast’s Wayne Barrett explored those suspicions on Thursday, detailing how Giuliani’s ties to the agency date back to his days as a U.S. attorney in the 1980s.

Giuliani confirmed that notion Friday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

“I did nothing to get it out, I had no role in it,” he said. “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it, and I can’t even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents.”

Watch Giuliani’s brag below:

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Chris Cuomo To Rudy Giuliani: “You’re In Trumpland”

Rudy Giuliani is like a pig in shit as he conflates and obfuscates any and all possible conspiracy theories concerning Hillary Clinton in this interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.

He’s clearly living for all the attention he’s getting as a Trump surrogate.

From Mediaite:

“I mean Rudy! I have looked up to you my entire life because you’re so accurate,” said Cuomo as the exchange got heated. “And all of a sudden you’re in Trumpland, and the facts are all over the place.” As Giuliani dug deeper into the rabbit hole to make his case, Cuomo asserted, “You’re not even close to connecting anything yet. You’re not close.”

Giuliani pivoted at one point to slam Cuomo and, presumably, CNN for their treatment of the GOP nominee, saying “You guys are so darn unfair to Trump!” Cuomo appeared incredulous with just how loose and fast Giuliani has become when it comes to the facts of a case.

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Rudy Giuliani Says Hillary Clinton Wasn’t Present On 9/11 – Photo Proves Otherwise

Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani told a campaign crowd today that he was on site at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and he doesn’t remember seeing then Sen. Hillary Clinton at the site.

The full statement:

Don’t tell me if you said that that you remember September 11, 2001. I remember September 11, 2001. Yes, yes, you helped to get benefits for the people who were injured that day. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day, I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there. That was like when she said she had to run through gunfire. That turned out to be,, what do we call it? A lie.

But don’t tell me that you subscribe the notion that all of us who were with on September 11 and we’re lucky to be alive and have lost so many friends. I lost so many friends on September 11. I think about it every day. Don’t tell me you belong to our very, very tight group of “never forget.” Don’t tell me that.

Please note the picture above of her walking with him on 9/11.

These people say anything that crosses their minds as they address the crowds. And then the people go home and tell everyone this lie that they heard from Rudy Giuliani.

#LiarLiarPantsOnFire

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Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is A Genius For Losing $916 Million

Watching Rudy Giuliani on CNN’s “State of the Union” this morning was an adventure in twisted logic.

CNN’s Jake Tapper attempted get straight answers from Giuliani regarding the latest Trump bombshell concerning his income taxes via the New York Times, but to little avail. Giuliani appeared a bit wild-eyed at times trying to get his approved “talking points” across.

Watch below.

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Rudy Giuliani: Hillary Clinton Didn’t Leave Her Husband So She’s “Too Stupid” To Be President

Leaving the presidential debate last night, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani ranted to members of the press about Donald Trump’s decision not to use against Hillary Clinton the fact that she stayed in her marriage to former President Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the 90s.

“After being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn’t know the moment Monica Lewinsky said that Bill Clinton violated her that she was telling the truth, then you’re too stupid to be president.”

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Rudy Giuliani Forgets That Thing That He Mentions Every Time He Speaks

Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Guiliani somehow forgot the one thing he always remembers to mention in every speech he’s made for the past 15 years.

During a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, while stumping for Donald Trump, Giuliani told the crowd that radical Islamic terrorist attacks only began under President Obama’s administration.

Folks have pointed to a bump on his head, but it’s really is inconceivable that Guiliani, of all people, would forget the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, which happened on President George W. Bush’s watch.

Somehow, Rudy says “Before Obama, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic attacks in the US.”

Umm, wow.

UPDATE: Giuliani now says he was speaking in “abbreviated language” which would explain why he totally left out the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

“I’m not there to give a major 45-minute policy address,” he said of his Trump introduction Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, where he said plainly that “under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States.”

“You speak in somewhat abbreviated language,” Giuliani told The News Tuesday. “All human beings speak in abbreviated language at times.”

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Rudy Guiliani Doubles Down On “Obama Doesn’t Love America” Screed

Appearing on Fox News’ The Kelly File, former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani said he will not back down from comments he made about President Obama on Wednesday.

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said at a private dinner. “He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.”

Via Western Journalism:

Kelly began the segment asking if he would like to apologize for his comments – but he refused, saying he actually wanted “to repeat it.”

“This is an American president I’ve never seen before,” he said. “From all that I can see of this president, all that I’ve heard of him, he apologizes for America, he criticizes America … I don’t feel it. I don’t feel the love of America.”

“I’m right about this,” he concluded. “I have no doubt about it; I do not withdraw my words.”

Watch the segment below: