White House officials are disputing the details of the call logs in House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ impeachment report, the New York Times reported.
Yes it’s quite plausible that the personal attorney for the president never spoke to him by phone.
ETA- I meant that as snark, but I suppose if I was a mob style lawyer with the boss as my client, I wouldn’t speak to him by phone either. But I like to think I’m not a total dumb ass.
An Office of Budget and Management official told the Times that, according to an OMB review of call records, Giuliani was not in contact with the office in April and August.
Maybe Giuliani just likes hearing the White House switchboards automated voice for minutes at a time?
“White House officials are disputing the details of the call logs in House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ impeachment report.”
As with many things, the White House could clear up any confusion and prove their point by releasing details of the calls, who was on them, and what was said. Records, testimony, that kind of stuff.
"The report cites multiple calls between Giuliani and White House phone numbers, including at least one call with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, the department responsible for the military aid freeze to Ukraine.
“But the officials told the Times that that budget office phone number is technically a White House switchboard line, which makes it more difficult to pin down who exactly Guiliani might have been in contact with. The officials told the the Times that that phone number also is linked to the offices in the upper level of the West Wing and the National Security Council.”
On one hand, the White House is saying Giuliani could have been talking to anyone, and definitely wasn’t talking to the President.
On the other hand, Giuliani is saying it’s no surprise that he is talking to his client, the President.
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink. - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
In it, there was a scene in which one of the Anglo heroes was in a South American jail cell. The guards came for him (in his cell), they opened up the door to his cell and he ran in the opposite direction from them.
Everyone has a certain length of rope they can use up before they lose the benefit of the doubt. Rudy, now, has used up so much rope it could reach the fucking moon and back more than once, I mean, come on.