Rudy Giuliani is once again showing how Trump picks only the best people by screwing up yet again and telling the media another problematic statement.
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani seemed to suggest that the president had a larger role in the Justice Department’s decision to block AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner in a new interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.
In the interview, Giuliani states that Trump “denied the merger,” which appears to fly in the face of months of assurances from the DOJ and the White House that Trump had no influence over the decision.
Giuliani made the comments after being asked whether Trump had knowledge that Michael Cohen, his lawyer, had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from AT&T in the weeks after the election for consulting work on the merger.
“The president had no knowledge of it,” the former New York City mayor told HuffPost.
“Whatever lobbying was done didn’t reach the president,” he added. “He did drain the swamp … The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted.”
Trump frequently railed against the AT&T merger on the campaign trail, calling it bad for the country. The telecom giant as well as a number of former DOJ officials have in recent months raised concerns about Trump’s possible role behind the scenes on the lawsuit.
The only reason the media is talking about AT&T, of course, is because it turns out that they were paying off Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. And the only reason we know that is because Michael Avenatti spilled it to the media. And the only reason we know that is because Trump spilled into Porny Daniels, then tried to hide it before the election, badly.
Trump tweeted about AT&T last night but only offered a deflection:
Why doesn’t the Fake News Media state that the Trump Administration’s Anti-Trust Division has been, and is, opposed to the AT&T purchase of Time Warner in a currently ongoing Trial. Such a disgrace in reporting!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2018
He has a point, right? They didn’t get what they wanted, so that means this wasn’t a pay-for-play scheme. But that doesn’t mean that Cohen didn’t TELL them that the government was for sale…
Still, this is nothing compared to Hillary’s crimes!! Lock her up!! Lock her up!! #MAGA!!!