NYT: Trump Officials Dispute Details Of Giuliani Call Logs With WH Aides

White House officials are disputing the details of the call logs in House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ impeachment report, the New York Times reported.


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which makes it more difficult to pin down who exactly Giuliani might have been in contact with

I am pretty certain he was calling to speak with the janitor

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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.

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Let’s go to Moscow for the official tapes and transcripts …

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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?

Yeah, I’m sure everyone will buy that one…

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“trump officials dispute details…”
Well I for one, find the White House track record unimpeachable. :roll_eyes:

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“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.

Funny, huh?

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Well there you go, I guess there was nothing at all to this Ukraine thing.

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So, he was speaking with National Security? Whatever for?

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"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.”

Who is Mick Mulvaney, Alex?

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They should’ve just claimed it was yet another Giuliani butt dial. We’d have to believe them.

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Trump is claiming he never knew the phone, and that it may have only brought covfefe to a meeting or two.

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Wow, Rudes, lighten up on the hair gel a bit, would you?

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Well, it is pretty easy to clear that up isn’t it?

If you have exculpatory evidence that Giuliani was carrying on with one of the WH maids or something cough it up.

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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

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If Trump and Ghoulie used them, you can bet they weren’t smart phones.

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I once saw a B Movie called “Let’s Get Harry

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.

That’s the Logic of Team Trump.

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Well at least one reporter has been on the receiving end of a couple of Rudy’s butt dials so…

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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.

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Did anyone expect the WH to say anything else?

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