Rudy Giuliani Says He's Not Going to the Ukraine

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Sat May 11, 2019, 01:11 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: Mediaite

Speaking with Fox News' Shannon Bream on Friday night, President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he is not going to the Ukraine after all.

Giuliani told Bream that in order to avoid any political suggestion, "I will step back and just watch it unfold."

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Giuliani then suggested it was actually a setup.

"No trip because I believe I was walking into a bunch of people, one of whom was already has found to be involved on this, and I think this was a setup. The whole thing, by the way, is a setup. From the very beginning. That is what you will find," Giuliani opined. "It goes back to at least January of 2016 when they decided that they should deal with the Ukraine. You're also going to find that some of the Steele dossier memoranda was written in the Ukraine. After all, Steele didn't go to Russia for nine years. How could he have written a memorandum about Russia if he hadn't been there for nine years?"

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/rudy-giuliani-says-hes-not-going-to-the-ukraine/

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Video at the link.


I posted about this after first hearing about it on CNN minutes ago.



Editing again to add a link to the CNN video I saw first, which included a part of the Fox intervoew Mediaite didn't have, where Giuliani smeared the people he'd been planning to meet with in Ukraine (described as "a group of people who are enemies of the president, in some cases enemies of the US" ):

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/05/11/giuliani-not-making-ukraine-trip-fox-news-don-lemon-ctn-sot-vpx.cnn



Editing again to add the link to Fox News video of the complete interview, if anyone wants to see it. Rudy was ranting away, hyper and repeating himself a lot.

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6035385372001/#sp=show-clips

[Xipe Totec]

1. Pucker power is the power of the hour.

Munched a hole in your seat there, Rudy?

[olegramps]

21. Trump and his cadre of fascists nincompoops are master's of propaganda.

They are driven by a combination of hatred and insatiable lust for power and money. I would remind people that the NY Fire Fighters hold the Ghoul accountable for the deaths of their fellow fire fighters. He authorized the purchase of substandard communication equipment that was proven worthless in the attack. In contrast to the equipment used by the police department who lost no people because of effective communication, the firefighters were virtually helpless to warn them to evacuate the site.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Did he get too much flak for attempted public ratfucking?

Don't worry; he'll figure out some other way to do it.

[highplainsdem]

3. According to a British paper, the Ukrainian president wasn't going to meet with him:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142315096

That story was published several hours ago, but I didn't run across it till this evening.

[EarlG]

4. He doesn't need to go, he already got everybody talking about it

Which I suspect was the goal all along...

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. Yep. It's a tried and true propaganda tool. n/t

[highplainsdem]

8. I agree that was one of the goals. But these clowns are so incompetent I suspect Giuliani really

thought he'd find something important and be viewed as a hero.

[machoneman]

22. Incompetent? Yes, but I smell money, lots of money! I'll bet he hoped to bribe senior Ukrainian...

officials or their spy/police agencies to create fake 'evidence'.

But, I do also believe that most foreign government types are way too savvy (unlike Trumpboy's minions) to fall for this trick. Would many want the moola? Sure, but they also take the long view of only 2 more years of Trump's totally unstable regime, have seen Putin's influence do the dog-chain pull on him and perhaps mist importantly, know the Democrats could unleash the CIA, NSA, FBI on them later to prove that cash made the difference. The backlash under any Democratic President could be both swift and fierce.

[Sugarcoated]

9. But isn't pressuring a foreign government

To commit a crime in our country, pressuring them to do it, doesn't that make their colluding the story thus overshadowing the smear, taking the wind out of it?

[LiberalFighter]

5. Isn't he number two at lying?

[thegoose]

6. Well, he's number two for sure...

💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I guess that means he's going.

I believe the opposite of what this man says.

[SergeStorms]

11. He found out...

that's there's absolutely nothing to this story, so they're trying to save a little face by being "nice guys" and not pursuing it. Besides, they already planted the seed in the Trump cult's garbage addled minds. Trump TV will take it from here.

[Midnight Writer]

12. He probably opted for the July 4 Junket to Moscow. So many R's go, it must be really nice.

[NBachers]

13. My reading comprehension must be slipping. His statement makes absolutely no sense at all to me.

[Qutzupalotl]

14. It's not you.

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
— Groucho Marx

[Roy Rolling]

15. Damn!

I was getting a lot of mileage from this meme. I guess it's back to the crypt for Rudy.

[Vinca]

17. Oops - I should have looked at your post first. See below. LOL.

[Vinca]

16. That's nice. Now he can go straight back to the crypt.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Or maybe just back to the Manhattan in the New York.

I doubt the people of Ukraine will miss his visit.

[GreydeeThos]

18. Giuliani has contracted James O"Keefe and Project Veritas to go undercover in Kiev

Soon we will have the evidence documented with blurry black and white images taken by a shoe-camera and fountain pen microphone.

[lanlady]

20. Ukraine is hardly pro-Russian

Why should its people welcome anyone from Putin's American fan club, eh Rudy?

[machoneman]

23. True! Putin's lap dog Trump and his evil minions....

love the Russkies....meaning any true Ukrainian hates these fuckers.