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2018-05-04 Home Front: Politix

[DailyBeast] President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday he doubted the veracity of a bombshell NBC News report from earlier in the day that federal authorities wiretapped the president’s longtime counsel, Michael Cohen.

"Us lawyers have talked about it, we don’t believe it’s true," Giuliani told The Daily Beast. "We think it’s going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal. You can’t wiretap a lawyer, you certainly can’t wiretap his client who’s not involved in the investigation. No one has suggested that Trump was involved in that investigation. So they’re going to wiretap the lawyer, his client, and his client the president of the United States? I don’t think so, not if they want to stay out of jail. Disclosing a wiretap is a federal felony. I never took ’em home when I was a U.S. attorney."

Giuliani said that he found out about the wiretap news from NBC News’ report, which cited "two people with knowledge of the legal proceedings," and not from Cohen himself. He believed someone in the Justice Department was behind the leak.

"Nobody else would know about it," Giuliani said. "Cohen didn’t know about it, so it has to be the FBI, the independent counsel, or the Justice Department."

"Anybody who says that I’m exaggerating when I say that this is an out-of-control investigation and they’re acting like storm troopers‐‐give me a break, baby! They prove it every day."

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"That sort of thing happens all the time if you’re doing mob wiretaps," he said. "That would be the classic type of scenario, when they’re calling their lawyer or their fixer or whatever. But there’s not an absolute prohibition on wiretapping a lawyer."

"Right now, the odds are against it," he said. "Look at all of the bad faith we’re seeing here. And whether this wiretap story is true or not true, it’s bad faith to leak it. We should find out about this with a notification from the Justice Department, they’re wiretapping the President of the United States, they’re wiretapping a man talking to his lawyer and then they want us to cooperate? We’re not suckers."

Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 NBC is correcting its wiretap story on MSNBC right now, saying it was not a wiretap on Cohen phone. Says it was instead a log of phone calls known as a “pen register,”

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-04 03:33|| 2018-05-04 03:33|| Front Page Top

#2 "We think it’s going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal."

Rudy, there's been a great deal of criminality by the Deep State cabal already. Unfortunately, much of it has gone unprosecuted. Meanwhile, Mueller goes after ginned-up, phony process minutia. Very frustrating.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-05-04 07:26|| 2018-05-04 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 "We think it’s going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal."

NBC was quick to correct their reporting (who told them about 'Pen Registers?). Too quick, in my mind, based on their previous news 'coverage' of other issues.

Rudy may be setting the scene for something here, too. Shaping the message as it were, so when wiretapping of the sort is actually verified (which JQC alludes to), no one can question the legalities.

Well, some will of course.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-05-04 09:04|| 2018-05-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I do remember that, when this story first broke, there was reporting of 'information' gathered that could be incriminating.

Seems beyond the info a mere pen register could gather.

But, as Giuliani says, that would be 'totally illegal'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-05-04 13:47|| 2018-05-04 13:47|| Front Page Top

#5 It probably was true, just not supposed to be admitted.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-05-04 13:51|| 2018-05-04 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I can’t decide whether Rudy is going to be boon or bane for DJT.

Posted by Betty Hatfield5124 2018-05-04 18:09|| 2018-05-04 18:09|| Front Page Top

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