Rudy is a hot mess…..
He may be playing to Trump’s 40% of supporters out all voters in polling.
But in doing so he’s completely off the charts…
The goal of politicians appearing on Sunday shows is simple: Set the agenda for the week ahead.
Rudy Giuliani achieved that — and then some — in an appearance on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. But the agenda he set was an absolute disaster for the Trump White House. Watching it was the equivalent of watching someone slip on a banana peel on the street — it’s hilarious and sad all at once. You feel bad for laughing but you find yourself laughing anyway. (And then you realize you may just be crying).
Let’s start with Giuliani’s seeming attempt to rebut the idea of truth. Here’s the back and forth with “MTP” host Chuck Todd — begun when Todd asks Giuliani why President Donald Trump couldn’t simply sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller and tell the full truth:
GIULIANI: And when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because it’s somebody’s version of the truth. Not the truth. He didn’t have a, a conversation —
CHUCK TODD: Truth is truth. I don’t mean to go like —
RUDY GIULIANI: No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth. The President of the United States says, “I didn’t — “
What Giuliani is, I think, trying to say is that not everything that Mueller might ask about is a fact. The example he cites is how former FBI Director James Comey has said that Trump asked him to leave off the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn while Trump has insisted no such conversation took place.
“Donald Trump says, ‘I didn’t talk about Flynn with Comey,'” Giuliani noted. “Comey says, ‘You did talk about it,’ so tell me what the truth is.”
OK, a few things here.
First, the idea that the fact that Trump would describe a meeting with Comey differently than Comey has isn’t perjury — as Giuliani would like you to believe. It’s a “he said, he said” — which happens all the time in a court of law. So the idea that Trump can’t talk to Mueller because it’s possible he had a differing understanding of what he told Comey is a red herring.
Second, not all “he said, she said” situations are created equal. Comey testified under oath — in written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee — that “[Trump] asked what we could do to ‘lift the cloud.'” Trump saying — or tweeting — that he never mentioned the idea of going easy on Flynn is entirely different. He’s not under oath. He can say almost whatever he wants. And Giuliani’s assertion that Trump would tell Mueller exactly what he has said publicly is, again, sort of a misdirection. Saying what you would tell the special counsel is not the same thing as actually sitting down with the special counsel.
Third — and this one feels obvious — you can’t, ever, say “truth isn’t truth.”
image…Vox
Why is he playing to only40% of Trumps supporters?
(The answer to this ought to be a good load of bs)
By 40% I mean of all polled voters….
Sorry if that isn’t clear…
I cleaned up the statement in the post
By the way?
There have been others that are no longer here because they where hounded into leaving due to the relentless pound in flicked by others here…..
Not me….
I just do a blog….
Just a political-dog followingb the scents …
And having a good time along the way with my nose to the ground😄
Who?
How many GOPer’s have bailed out of here because of feeling unwelcome and not able to take being hammered?
People take things entirely TOO seriously sometimes….
I always remind people it’s up to them …
But GOPer’s are challenged and most do not like that….
So it’s not me….
I remember Mike who claimed he didn’t like the format and RepublicCan.Neither posted that often to begin with.
There was Manila who just never came back after the change to signing in.
SE left cause he said he was tired of politics .
Then there was your Texas buddy but you actually played along that he was a Democrat ,while the rest of us sawthe Republican he was.Besides you banned him
I concur….
I’ll add Daniel G.
I like our back a forth
I do not take it personally
The same should be for Zreebs and those on the list you and I just named….
shut your mouth clown