Pres. Trump just snubbed his outspoken personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, keeping him from joining his growing defense team for the impeachment trial. Giuliani has reportedly proven too large a liability, including his links to indicted businessman Lev Parnas, and this report tracks Giuliani’s history of questionable business judgment, including another major figure who was indicted after running the NYPD, a business alliance Giuliani later admitted was a “mistake.” Aired on 1/20/2020.
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Rejected: See Trump snub Giuliani As Impeachment Trial Begins | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
🐧..So, no Giuliany, Ok.🐧…Oops, The Penguin Giuliani Escaped Gotham, Arkham Asylum!
Dittzx Lmaoooooooo not the Penguin!!! 🗣🗣🗣😭
Gonna be a whole lotta snubs once this thing unravels. I wonder who else received funds from “Fraud Guaranteed?”
That name is a hoot. It was actually Fraud Guarantee. Apparently Lev and his partner tried to game Google search results with that name to hide fraudulent practices.
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/31/giuliani-henchman-named-company-fraud-guarantee-to-hide-fraud-allegations-on-search-report/
Anything that comes out of DT’S MOUTH IS FAKE NEWS .
It’s time REAL LEADERSHIP NOT FAKE LEADERSHIP.
Making ignorance a virtue is no way to go through life
Toni Olson …. there’s no such thing as fake news. It’s either news, which is factual, or lies. The words news and fake can’t be put together as the latter negates the former. That’s Occupant45’s line that everyone gobbled up even though it makes no sense. I don’t give it oxygen. News? Or lies? Simple.
@Máire Walton Trump’s a fake president!
@zendoll1 I’M SURE HE WILL BE IF PEOPLE KEEP VOTING FOR THE SAME OLD AZZ CROOKS & VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE BUT I GUESS THAT’S WHY THEY LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED SO MUCH, THEY ONLY STOP VOTING FOR THE SAME OLD AZZ FOOLS WHEN THEY DIE IN OFFICE & THEY DON’T HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE BUT TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE!!💯💯✌😂😂😂
This T.V.Drama has been on long enough, it’s time to get back to reality now.
My guess is, the rest of Trump’s legal team would have walked out, had Rudy turned up. Rudy knew about Carrick all along. When things got out, Rudy’s response – “I Don’t Know The Guy”.
Rudy says he invented racketeering charges.??? I guess it makes sense, cause it’s something he’s good at
What do you call a trial without witnesses and evidence? It’s called a farce and a cover-up.
What do you call a country that would allow something like this to happen? You would call it a banana republic, and a failed State.
If this is allowed to happen, It will be yet another example of Trump and republicans giving a middle-finger to the American people, and the Constitution.
@Phylum OH YEAH & NOW THAT YOU’VE BEEN SCHOOLED=MUTE!!🆗😈👋👋✌😂😂😂
“Be sure to take care of Rudy, okay?”
“Hey boss…you mean take care of him [fingers gun motion to the head], or ya know, take care of him?”
“Lets leave it vague, okay? I need plausible deniability”
@Phylum So back to the original question, what do you call a trial without witnesses and evidence? Wouldn’t those witnesses and evidence exonerate trump? Because he’s got nothing to hide right? Shall we play that game? Your pick, which game shall we play?
@jays knight king titan What do you mean no “investigation and evidence or any facts to prove your case”? Just because YOU, CHOOSE to deny all evidence, no matter what it is, CERTAINLY does not mean it doesn’t exist!
Is this where the regurgitation of liberal false narratives are perpetuated? I was certain we were referring to Congress not having any real evidence or witnesses…
Hey Rudolph.MAGA My Attorney’s Get Arrested.
Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter.
–Nick Cohen
Truer words have never been spoken..
Rudy’s associate, Lev Parnas should have really listened to Michael Cohen’s warning about getting close to Trump. For more than a year, Lev worked for Trump by partnering with Rudy to help carry out Trump’s bribery scheme in Ukraine. He even put himself in legal jeopardy for Trump by illegally funneling Russian money into a Trump super-PAC, and republican campaigns.
Lev was arrested and charged with illegally funneling foreign cash to Republican politicians, including a pro-Trump super PAC. The $1 million that Lev received came from a mysterious account in Russia in September, which Lev conveniently forgot to disclose to the government.
So after getting caught, arrested, and indicted, he turns on the TV one day, to see his cult leader, the man he loved and admired, the man that he risked everything for, announce to the world, that he’s never met him, and has no idea who he is. 😲 How would you feel if you were Lev Parnas right now?😂 😄
Lev=Rich on steroids!
@Michael Hargwood he has none
Howard Kerr The facts speak for themselves…
We have the Best economy this Country has ever had. We have the lowest unemployment rate for all races..
The wall is going up.
Trump is delivering on all the promises he made during the campaign.
Hey… You asked for facts in support of Trump
Howard Kerr
all you people have are allusions and innuendo and ad hominem attacks.
Uh oh. Donald’s amnesia has kicked in. “Rudy who?”
“I don’t know who the man is. Oftentimes I’ll be taking a picture with somebody and say, I wonder what newspaper that one will appear in. I don’t know him. Perhaps he’s a fine man. Perhaps he’s not. I know nothing about him.”
😉Well, doesn’t any forms of a loose handle Rudi grenade “mascot” presents anew scandalous problems and perhaps would becomes more of an dangerous situations for Al RICO Trumpinnocchio to handle afterwards already⁉️💥🥵💥
😂🤒WTF🤣
If trump admits he s guilty then he can pardon himself because you have to be convicted to be pardoned. S. I. M. P. L e. Right ???
@Barney S 💯💯✌😂😂😂
Hey trump is 75 years old give the old dog his rest
When Rudy was going after the mob, maybe he was just getting rid of the competition.
AND MAKING SOME NEW CONNECTIONS ALONG THE WAY & THAT’S WHY THOSE OF US WHO ARE ACTUALLY FROM NEW YORK CITY NEVER CALLED HIM *AMERICA’S MAYOR*, THAT CRAP CAME FROM PEOPLE WHO EVEN FROM HERE & LOOK AT SHOCKED THEY ARE NOW BUT THEN AGAIN THOSE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CALLED BILL COSBY *AMERICA’S DAD* & WE SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT FOR HIM & THEM TO HUH?!✊😎💯💪🗽🌉🌉🗽✌😂😂😂
@O SNOOPY SNOOP I wish you guys would stop making past comparisons! Well I at least hope him & Trump end up just like Bill Cosby & O.J. did/ doing time! Smh! 🙏🙏🇺🇸
@Andrea KEEP WISHING BECAUSE IF WE DON’T LEARN FROM THE PAST THEN WE’RE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT & AS DR. MAYA ANGELOU SAID,”WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM”!!✊😎✌😂😂😂
@O SNOOPY SNOOP i dont wish I pray but I know what you mean!🙏🇺🇸
Who is paying for the legal fees? Certainly not tight wad Trump!
@Andrea YOU AIN’T THE ONLY ONE!!💯💯✌😂😂😂
President Trump pays for all of the fees that have anything to do with him,and doesnt take a salary
@Mike Ray https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies/ List of rally sites he hasn’t repaid for security services. Multiple states. He doesn’t take salary because he knows he’s making money hand over fist by not stepping back from his business and agreeing to a blind trust. No doubt as a courtesy to the taxpayers..
@Mike Ray MUTE!! HE DOESN’T HAVE SINCE HE GETS PAID BY THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS EVERY TIME HE PLAYS GOLF ⛳ AT HIS OWN GOLF ⛳ COURSES!! THAT MAKES UP FOR WHAT HE DOESN’T TAKE AS FAR AS A SALARY=$115 MILLION AS OF NOV. 27TH, 2019!! GOOGLE THAT & READ *THE HUFFPOST ARTICLE* WHENEVER YOU GET GOOGLE IN YOUR COUNTRY A’IGHT!! IF I WAS HIM I WOULDN’T TAKE A SALARY EITHER SINCE HE GETS PAID ALOT MORE FOR PLAYIN’ GOLF ⛳ THAN HE DOES FOR PLAYIN’ president!!🆗😈👋👋✌😂😂😂
Trump doesn’t take his $400,000 a year salary. He gives it to charity. What did the simian do with his?
Trumps next interview he’s gonna say he doesn’t know Rudy. He has photos with him but he doesn’t know him. Never met him lol
Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏
“I really don’t know Mr. Giuliani. I may have met him once or twice.”
Best comment of the day!
If Bernie Kerik was on the scene within minutes of the 9/11 attack. Why hasn’t he suffered from cancer as his cohort actual ‘first responders’?
Can’t believe anything Bush said about 9.11
The Old Gringo exactly!!!
“Within minutes”.
60 minutes is an hour. 1440 minutes is a day. 10080 minutes is a week. I imagine he was there at some point measured in minutes…
He was probably just there long enough for some pictures to be taken with him looking “leader”-ish, like all the other politicians. It’s not like he spent days there cleaning up, or climbed up the stairs into the building. TBH, that wasn’t his job.
Make Trump testify so he can perjure himself.
That whole “perjury trap” thing just seemed to me like Trumpco admitting they were a bunch of crooks. One doesn’t lay “perjury traps” for innocent people you expect to tell the truth.
Trump will find it difficult to resist the lure of being on tv again. Go ahead and testify.
Giuliani is not in the team because he is about to be thrown under the bus
Giuliani said in an interview that he has “insurance” if Trump were to ever bring him down. He is not getting thrown anywhere, because Trump knows Rudy can bury him if he wanted to.
“Hey boss…it looks like Rudy is a loose wheel. He just might drop a dime on ya. You want us to rough him up, a little bit?”
“Look guys…I can’t say directly. But, lets just say…accidents happen all the time”
It wasn’t that long ago, that Trump threw his old lawyer, Michael Cohen under the bus. Get close to Trump and destroy your future.
The level of corruption and immorality is stunning.
Rudy is a treasonous foreign agent of all of America’s enemies.
I seriously wished Donald Trump would have added Giuliani to his defense team. The more he goes on tv to speak out the worse for Trump.
A J disagree. I trust Rudy more than i trust any democrat.
A J LIES
@Denise Bilby I too trust Rudy to take down Trump before any Democrat could.
How history repeats itself with; lies, chaos and populism.