Rudy Has Been Playing Footsie With Sanctioned ‘Active Russian Agent’ For Months | Talking Points Memo

The Ukrainian MP sanctioned by the Treasury today for interfering in the 2020 election has had a long streak of cooperation with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and has been peddling information to the GOP for years.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1331414

Very interesting that Munchkin let this one through.

Is team Trump finally falling apart as people look to save themselves?

22 Likes

Rudy Giuliani is the Fredo Corleone of the Trump crime syndicate.

16 Likes

Bob’s book has lifted the Trump denial machine (Barr and Co…the FOX people…the paid slaves and minions) into dangerous territory…all of the other anti-Trump items had weaknesses that the Crew could exploit.

That book reminds be of a tool box.

11 Likes

Or are they doing something relatively minor so that Trump can claim to be tough on the Russians (never mind that this guy is Ukrainian)?

Josh Kovensky, I hope TPM appreciates you. I think the readers do.

19 Likes

How long can a confused, ignorant, drunken, racist slob take trips around the world and consort with Russian agents before someone says “Hey wait”?

I guess about this long. Funny how Rudy ended up being exactly what his critics accused him of decades ago.

20 Likes

Quelle surprise…!

4 Likes

Naw, this has to be something different. Don’t know exactly what it is, yet, but Treasury is going off the reservation for some reason.

13 Likes

Because he always was. Mobster from day one, just took the prosecutor route so he could take out enemies of his bosses.

13 Likes

Most likely he wasn’t consulted. He will fix it on the next few days.

I know the conventional wisdom is that everything starts to actually pick up and gel after Labor Day, but this week has been nuts.

13 Likes

Maybe the former family evictor/bad movie producer just wants to take Rudy down for some reason. Not the same reasons for which Rudy deserves to be taken down, of course, but some reason.

5 Likes

Cruel and unusual punishment = being sentenced to play footsie with Rudy Giuliani.

3 Likes

I really don’t know. Speculated on another thread that it could be them punishing the guy for not actually giving them any useful information.

But there’s no positive news for trump in outing yet another actual russkie agent closely connected to him.

Something’s up.

17 Likes

What happens if they Drag him out and Rudy sees his shadow tomorrow?

11 Likes

I agree. It appears Treasury has decided to knee cap Rudy and his Russian buddy. Makes it look like they are siding with saving the Republic. We shall see.

12 Likes

The real devil’s triangle - Rudy, OANN, and Devin’s Cow.

6 Likes

As long as it’s not four more years of winter, I’m OK with it.

7 Likes

Lock him up.

1 Like

Do find it interesting that it’s been Munchkin that’s also the only one actually working with Pelosi. If there’s a linkage here, maybe as evil as he is he still thinks he’s a patriot.

13 Likes