Rudy continues to play "TV lawyer" to claim Trump is above the law, and subsequently gets mad on air as CNN plays an old clip stating a contradiction.
As usual, the truth is only operative when it is convenient to Trumpists.
Unclear with Rudy’s analogy is whether Martha Stewart was hatching a plot to collude with a foreign power to destabilize US democracy. Proof of pudding is in the eating, however.
Trump would agree to an interview “tomorrow” if he believed Mueller’s investigation was dealing with the truth
As President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly argued that a sitting president does not have to comply with a subpoena, asserting that if one were to be issued in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, Trump has the authority to resist it.
“He’s the president of the United States,” the former mayor of New York City said earlier this month. “We can assert the same privileges other presidents have.”
But during a live interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday, Giuliani was forced to confront remarks he made in 1998 that appear to undercut that very assertion. “You’ve got to do it,” Giuliani told Charlie Rose when asked about a presidential subpoena in 1998. “I mean, you don’t have a choice. There is a procedure for handling that.”
“That’s extremely unfair what you’re doing right now,” Giuliani complained as the clip played on a split screen. “This is the reason people don’t come on this show.” He later called the network “disgusting.”
The tense moment came during a nearly 45-minute segment that included multiple attacks against the Russia investigation and the FBI.
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Perhaps that’s because the evidence paints a very different picture than the one Carlson would like his audience to believe. Paddock does indeed appear to have been radicalized, though not by agents of the Islamic State, as Carlson insinuated, but by anti-government extremists on the far-right.
Multiple witnesses recalled encounters with Paddock in which he espoused pro-gun talking points and lashed out angrily about famous government confrontations in Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Paddock also told one witness, weeks before the shooting, of his belief that the government was plotting to use the Federal Emergency Management Agency to seize everyone’s guns. And he suggested that sacrifices needed to be made in order to convince the American people of the need to arm themselves.