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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemand Giuliani's "paid speeches to a shadowy Iranian opposition group"
Pass it on. After all the demands for Hillary's paid speeches--this is delicious.
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@senatorboxer Demand Giuliani's "paid speeches to a shadowy Iranian opposition group" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-rudy-giuliani.html?&moduleDetail=top-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=Footer&module=TopNews&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=undefined @housedemocrats #uniteblue
Rudolph Giulianis Business Ties Viewed as Red Flag for Secretary of State Job
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-rudy-giuliani.html?&moduleDetail=top-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=Footer&module=TopNews&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=undefined
By MARK LANDLER, ERIC LIPTON and JO BECKER
NOV. 15, 2016
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Rudolph W. Giuliani spoke at The Wall Street Journals C.E.O. Council in Washington on Monday. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times
WASHINGTON Rudolph W. Giuliani, facing a flood of questions about whether his business dealings should disqualify him from being named President-elect Donald J. Trumps secretary of state, on Tuesday defended his lucrative 15 years in the private sector as a credential for the job.
I have friends all over the world, Mr. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, said in an interview. This is not a new thing for me. When you become the mayor, you become interested in foreign policy. When I left, my major work was legal and security around the world.
As secretary of state, Mr. Giuliani, a loyal, often ferocious backer of Mr. Trumps candidacy, ................................
But Mr. Giulianis business ties are a major red flag. He built a lucrative consulting and speechmaking career after leaving City Hall. His firm, Giuliani Partners, has had contracts with the government of Qatar and the Canadian company that is building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and Mr. Giuliani has given paid speeches to a shadowy Iranian opposition group that until 2012 was on the State Departments list of foreign terrorist organizations.........................
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Demand Giuliani's "paid speeches to a shadowy Iranian opposition group" (Original Post)
riversedge
Nov 2016
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Then they would have asked to release her permanent record from elementary school
Yavin4
Nov 2016
#5
We couldn't even get Trumps's taxes, what makes anyone think we'll get Ghouliani's speeches?
jmg257
Nov 2016
#3
Oh, it is just to tickle them and perhaps -just perhaps get them to realize what
riversedge
Nov 2016
#6
Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)1. But we never saw Hillary's speeches.
Maybe if we had, back in the Spring, things may have turned out different.
Yavin4
(35,448 posts)2. Oh, for the love of....
They would have found something else to fixate on. Her shoes probably.
Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)4. While I don't disagree with you about them finding
something else, to discount her not releasing the transcripts of the speeches is a mistake.
Yavin4
(35,448 posts)5. Then they would have asked to release her permanent record from elementary school
People hated her because she is a woman who dared to rise above her station.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)3. We couldn't even get Trumps's taxes, what makes anyone think we'll get Ghouliani's speeches?
I take it it the Dems in the Senate will be blocking his approval?
riversedge
(70,347 posts)6. Oh, it is just to tickle them and perhaps -just perhaps get them to realize what
an endless stupid request it is. Turn the tables.