Giuliani: State Dept. Asked Me To Meet With Ukrainian Prez’s Aide | Talking Points Memo

Rudy Giuliani said Monday night that the State Department asked him to take a meeting with a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the days after a July 25 phone call between Zelensky and President Trump.


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Does Rudy not understand that, every time he opens his mouth, he either incriminates himself or Trump?

Does he need his jaw wired shut or something???

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Bye-bye, Pompeo.

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We will need to build a very large jail for all these Trumpsters…

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and why exactly would the state department want a personal lawyer of drump to speak to… anyone?

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Paging Mike Pompeo, clean-up on aisle three.

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Yermak, the Times reported, “said it was not clear to him whether Mr. Giuliani was representing Mr. Trump in their talks.”

I’ll bet!

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Rudy is the guy in the basement looking for a gas leak with a lit match.

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Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Kurt Volker, Trump’s personal emissary Giuliani …

Who else was involved in the treason to help Russia and the other criminal and Constitutional violations?

Keep talking, Rudy.

Of course, Yermak, the Times reported, “said it was not clear to him whether Mr. Giuliani was representing Mr. Trump in their talks.”

That’s OK, Yermak. It was Rudy talking. Very few people understand exactly what he’s saying.

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Is the State Department his client now?

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And that would be Donald Trump’s State Department, headed by toadie extraordinaire Mike Pompeo?

Amazing that the idiot thinks this is a defense. Even more amazing that the idiot has now dragged Pompeo into this as a major player.

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Do they think this is making things better?

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Exactly.

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“I wasn’t operating on my own,” Giuliani added.

Of course he wasn’t, that old man-whore doesn’t do anything for free.

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So who is he representing? If it’s the US, then wouldn’t Congress have some say about who should be representing the country–like approving the appointment of an ambassador or a member of the State Department who has been vetted and approved (ummm, paging Sec. Pompeo, cleanup on Ukraine aisle). Giuliani would never be approved for any appointment by Trump for a position needing Senate confirmation.

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Trump ordered Pompeo (with the knowledge of the rest of the cabinet?) to send Giuliani to Ukraine, so that exonerates Trump because he did not personally tell Rudy to go or what to talk about. Yep, sounds right for Trump–remember he used Cohen as the go between him and Stormy Daniels, so he thinks the hush money payments were a-ok since he did not personally make them.

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No.
Yes.
Any further questions?

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Is Ghoulian trying to scapegoat Tillerson or Pompeo?

(I.e., will they try to bend timelines to smear Tillerson or will they sacrifice Pompeo?)

A ruse to endeavor to invoke Executive Privilege??

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Because dog knows the State Department has no Ukraine specialists to discuss how to build a relationship with the new president.
Oops. WTF am I thinking. The Ukraine specialist doesn’t have the shakedown skills needed for this mission.

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