Only in America: Trump’s lawyer says “truth isn’t truth” – as the President’s former lawyer and campaign manager are found guilty of financial crimes
Appearing on NBC’s Meet The Press this week, Rudy Giuliani stated that the US President won’t be rushed in to give evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian hacking of the 2016 US election – because he doesn’t want Trump to get “trapped into perjury” if he testifies as “truth isn’t truth”.
Watch the clip here – the reporter can hardly keep a straight face.
The head of Trump’s legal team quickly backpedalled on the comment the following day, saying that he was only trying to say that different people can offer different accounts of what happened in any given situation.
The new ‘alternative facts’?
“My statement [referred] to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory statements, the classic ‘he said, she said’ puzzle,” he posted on Twitter. “Sometimes further inquiry can reveal the truth other times it doesn't.”
Giuliani says Mueller’s effort to talk to Trump is a sign that prosecutors are “desperate for some kind of charge they can hang their hat on.”
Considering the President’s long-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort have just been found guilty of a number of financial charges – with Cohen implicating Trump in the illegal payment of ‘hush money’ – we’d say that they sense blood in the water.
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