Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal responded to news of the Justice Department dropping charges of lying to the FBI against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Thursday, branding it “past stunning” and “the collapse of the Justice Department” as he “knew it.”
The president's personal attorney pressured Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, a central part of Trump's impeachment.
Marina Fang at HuffPost:
President Donald Trump now admits he sent his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, a central part of Trump’s impeachment.
Trump on Thursday explained why he chose to “use Rudy” in an interview for Fox News host Geraldo Rivera’s podcast, perhaps feeling at ease after being acquitted by the Republican-led Senate earlier this month.
“Was it strange to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine, your personal lawyer? Are you sorry you did that?” Rivera asked Trump.
“No, not at all,” Trump said.
“Here’s my choice: I deal with the Comeys of the world, or I deal with Rudy,” he continued, referring to former FBI Director James Comey, whom he fired in 2017 after the FBI began investigating his 2016 campaign. The investigation mushroomed into special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian election interference.
Trump said he has “a very bad taste” for U.S. intelligence officials because of Mueller’s investigation, so he chose Giuliani to do his bidding.
“So when you tell me, why did I use Rudy? And one of the things about Rudy, number one, he was the best prosecutor, you know, one of the best prosecutors, and the best mayor,” Trump told Rivera. “But also, other presidents had them. FDR had a lawyer who was practically, you know, was totally involved with government. Eisenhower had a lawyer. They all had lawyers.”
On Thursday’s edition of Geraldo Rivera’s Roadkill With Geraldo podcast, Trump justified his sending of Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to extort that nation in order to hurt the Bidens because he didn’t trust US intelligence officials due to the Mueller investigation.
From the 02.13.2020 edition of WTAM’s Roadkill With Geraldo:
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