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The Washington Post reports:
Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, contradicted himself when asked whether he personally asked Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, ranted about media bias and defended Trump amid new reports about an intelligence official’s whistleblower complaint, during a chaotic and fiery CNN interview Thursday night.
Immediately after anchor Chris Cuomo introduced him and summarized the latest news out of the whistleblower story, which had only broken about an hour prior, Giuliani went into attack mode. “I’m glad I’m on tonight, because what you just said is totally erroneous,” Giuliani said.
Giuliani spent the first half of the interview repeating the claim that Biden in 2016 pressured Ukraine to drop its top prosecutor, which at the time was also investigating a natural gas company where Biden’s son Hunter was on the board.
Real Clear Politics reports:
“You never asked anything about Hunter Biden? You never asked anything about Joe Biden?” Cuomo followed up. “The only thing I asked about Joe Biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that Lutsenko dismissed the case against AntAC,” Giuliani said, referring to former Ukrainian prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and the Ukrainian-based Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
“So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden,” Cuomo said. “Of course I did,” Giuliani replied. “You just said you didn’t,” Cuomo responded. “I didn’t ask them to look into Joe Biden,” Giuliani shot back. “I asked them to look into the allegations that related to my client which tangentially involved Joe Biden.”
CNN’s @ChrisCuomo: “Did you ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?”@RudyGiuliani: “Of course I did”
President Trump’s attorney says he had spoken with a Ukrainian official about Joe Biden’s possible role in that government’s dismissal of a prosecutor who investigated Biden’s son. pic.twitter.com/hqmqtmx2VW
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) September 20, 2019
President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani denied asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden moments before admitting that he had done just that.https://t.co/eq9lMfrC1E pic.twitter.com/wdz3Xn3ozd
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) September 20, 2019
CNN’s @ChrisCuomo fact-checks President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani’s claims about former VP Joe Biden https://t.co/boEwKZ97ER pic.twitter.com/Kq1tz3Ods0
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) September 20, 2019
Internet blown away by Giuliani’s ‘pants-sh*tting panic’ freak out on CNN’s Cuomohttps://t.co/ij7fH1VFXu
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 20, 2019
Giuliani admits to asking Ukraine about Joe Biden after denying it 30 seconds earlier https://t.co/G7P93f6L5L
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 20, 2019
You can tell shit is real when they send Rudy Giuliani out to confess to crimes on live TV
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) September 20, 2019
Trump crisis communication plan:
1. Say it’s fake news
2. Once people realize the news is not fake, send Rudy Giuliani on TV to say: “So what!?”
3. Rinse
4. Repeat
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 20, 2019
A President telling a Pres-elect of a well known corrupt country he better investigate corruption that affects US is doing his job. Maybe if Obama did that the Biden Family wouldn’t have bilked millions from Ukraine and billions from China; being covered up by a Corrupt Media.
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) September 20, 2019
Reminder in light of tonight’s new reporting: House Democrats are already examining whether Trump and Rudy Giuliani sought to manipulate the Ukrainian government into helping Trump’s reelection campaign.https://t.co/YwQ0EypUoj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 20, 2019
Giuliani is the guy who admits they did it, so that Trumpworld and the GOP can immediately pivot to “so what?”
Exactly how it worked w the Stormy Daniels payments.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 20, 2019
Cuomo: Did you ask Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden?
[literally 26 seconds later]
Giuliani: No, actually I didn’t.Cuomo: So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?
Giuliani: Of course I did! pic.twitter.com/tuElM5P4og— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 20, 2019
I’m starting to think maybe Rudy Giuliani ordered the Code Red against Santiago.
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) September 20, 2019
Chris Cuomo: Did you ask Ukraine to order a code red?
Rudy Giuliani: No
Chris Cuomo: DID YOU ASK UKRAINE TO ORDER A CODE RED?
Rudy Giuliani: You’re goddamn right I did
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) September 20, 2019