Giuliani cancels paid appearance next week at Kremlin-backed conference

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Source: Washington Post



Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose actions as President Trump’s personal lawyer have helped set in motion an impeachment inquiry, abruptly canceled his scheduled paid appearance at a Kremlin-backed conference in Armenia next week.

Giuliani, who confirmed to The Washington Post on Friday morning that he would attend the event, reversed himself that evening after The Post reported on his participation in the meeting, which Russian President Vladi­mir Putin and other top Russian officials are expected to attend.

The two-day conference is sponsored by Russia and the Moscow-based Eurasian Economic Union, a trade alliance launched by Putin in 2014 as a counterweight to the European Union. According to an agenda for the event posted online, Giuliani was set to participate in a panel led by Sergey Glazyev, a longtime Putin adviser who has been under U.S. sanctions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine five years ago.

Giuliani said Friday evening that he was no longer planning to attend the meeting. “I didn’t know Putin was going,” he said in a brief interview, adding in a text: “Discretion is the better part of valor.” Giuliani’s decision to take part in the conference astounded national security experts. His appearance would have come days after the release of a whistleblower complaint accusing Trump and Giuliani of pressuring Ukrainian officials for damaging information about Democrats.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-set-to-make-paid-appearance-next-week-at-kremlin-backed-conference/2019/09/27/a15ab242-e133-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

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[catbyte]

1. I guess they're going to have to do their plotting via Skype.

[MontanaMama]

2. Good idea Rudy.

Save your Oscar performances for Faux.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. Jeezus H. Aren't they just busy, little, traitorous beavers?? Manafort was just fitting in...

[Maxheader]

4. All the wingers are russky spys...

They used to hang spys...You know, as being a threat to americu...

[QED]

5. "Discretion is the better part of valor."

Since when have you exercised discretion, Rudy?

[marble falls]

6. Him saying that is pretty smug. I hope he goes to jail and his wife takes him all ...

way to the cleaners settling his divorce.

[obamanut2012]

7. They really are a bunch of fucking mobsters

JFC.

[Sherman A1]

10. Precisely

A very good description.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. And Rudy was so looking forward to it.

[Schmice3]

9. Lying liar

He didn't know that Putin was coming. That is as ridiculous as him saying that he didn't know the woman he married was his own cousin. This guy is giving Trump a run for his money in the fantasy department.

[poli-junkie]

11. ...and what the fuck is this Eurasian Economic Union?!!

A cabal of mobster despots?!!

[Yoopy]

12. The House has so much to investigate

Including why is Giuliani trying to get money from Putin.

[truthisfreedom]

13. "I didn't know Putin was going." It was ALL about pootie-poot-poot.

That was the only reason for him to go.

[EleanorR]

14. He spoke at the same conference last year

He knew very well who would be there and who sponsored the event.

Link to tweet

[Initech]

15. If you're accused of being a Russian asset, maybe, I don't know, GTFO out of Russia?