“I can tell you that Rudy Giuliani is not doing this on behalf of the campaign. He’s doing it in his capacity as a private citizen,” Lotter said.
Mark that down. I have a horrible feeling that we are going to come back to that statement quite often in the not too distant future.
One of the big problems I fear in the 2020 cycle, is the Trumpers blowing up election law, especially regarding foreign contributions…money and more importantly…“information”. They are laying down the groundwork for it here.
“I can tell you that Rudy Giuliani is not doing this on behalf of the campaign. He’s doing it in his capacity as a private citizen,” Lotter said.
“I believe if you’re going to have somebody running for president of the United States, if there is the possibility that something inappropriate happened, then it needs to be investigated,” he replied.
Oh, FFS, this is 110 percent a Trump Crime Family orchestrated treason tour.
““I can tell you that Rudy Giuliani is not doing this on behalf of the campaign. He’s doing it in his capacity as a private citizen,””
They HAVE to play let’s pretend in this manner.
What Giuliani is doing is going over to Ukraine to threaten or bribe with promises of abuse of the power of the President in order to solicit/force Ukraine to make an in-kind campaign contribution to Trump’s re-election in the form of a falsely pretexted criminal investigation of an American citizen he considers a political enemy. They know this. They know it is a deeply illegal felony, a violation of campaign finance laws AND COLLUSION WITH A FOREIGN POWER TO INFLUENCE OUR ELECTIONS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. So yeah, this has to be “oh, this has nothing to do with the campaign organization” in the thinnest technical sense, so that if it winds up in a court, they’ll have provided the Trumpian conservative white nationalist black-robed KKKlown they’re in front of with the tiniest toe-hold of a legal argument for finding that no wrongdoing took place.
Can someone somewhere somehow hack into a computer to revoke Ghoulie’s passport before he gets back?
He’s an undesirable alien.
Julian, are you listening?
OT (or not if it’s about Trump breaking the law) Breaking:
Why would he ask him to do that if he hadn’t obstructed justice?
Is it just me, or does the Donnie implosion seem to be accelerating,?
Please?
Someone on Nicolle Wallace’s show asked a good question: Who is paying for Rudy’s little junkets to Ukraine? Individual 1? Individual 1’s campaign? Someone else?
The US Taxpayer…
Self-impeachment is starting to be a thing.
Pelosi rocks.
This makes Hillary’s example of a Democratic candidate potentially seeking China’s help in interfering in our elections all the more apropos.
If Democrats can’t count on Republicans doing the right thing and can’t count on the Courts enforcing our election laws, they may be left with no other good option. After all, at some point you have to defend yourself. And that’s a terrifying thought.
“Gosh, Mr. Ukrainian, I hear Putin’s ramping up his propaganda to justify invading Crimea. You know, it’s gonna be a tough sell with the American public if we’re to get involved helping you defend your sovereignty. By the way, not to change the subject too abruptly, but about that Biden thing…”
“I believe if you’re going to have somebody running for president of the United States, if there is the possibility that something inappropriate happened, then it needs to be investigated,”
Hell yes!
Really?
OTOH, we have the Reagan and Iran interference. I’m sure there are others, but that was always an egregious episode.
We need to fix this if we are to survive.
Can’t wait for Rudy to claim work product privilege or some other nonsense.
The FBI better be fucking recording everything he does and says over there or we’re already waaaay past where I even thought we were.
Why do you hate the Ukrainians so much?
CIA and NSA have that writ, I believe. And they most assuredly are.
Yes, from his gaol cell in Britain. Sad!
@rapier claimed the many in the DOJ and FBI are on board with what’s going on. I didn’t bother to ask him how he knew that.
I do know that a few I’ve known felt dems were soft on crime. Heh.
Now that the FBI has had the accusations leveled at it, I wonder if they’re developing a different perspective.