Rudy Giuliani Has Bad News For James Comey, Puts ‘Final Nail In His Coffin’
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It is safe to assume that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani does not have any affection for former FBI Director James Comey. But Comey’s week just went from bad to worse if Giuliani’s blockbuster statement about him is true.
The man known by many as “America’s Mayor” had a fiery interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on the debut episode of his new primetime show aptly named “Cuomo Primetime.” It began with, of all things, Cuomo lecturing Giuliani about what to say to God while in the Holy Land as Giuliani appeared via satellite from Israel.
Cuomo asked Giuliani about the story of how Donald Trump Jr.’s letter about his meeting at Trump Tower with Russians who promised dirt on 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton came to be, and why the story changed. The president’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders both said that the president had nothing to do with the letter, but in a letter written to special counsel Robert Mueller, Sekulow said that the letter was dictated by the president.
“You think maybe someone could have made a mistake?” Giuliani asked, posing what would appear to be a plausible explanation as dictating a letter is not a crime and it would make no sense to knowingly lie about it. “You think Jay Sekulow lied?” Giuliani said. “Maybe he just got it wrong. … This is a complex investigation.”
Giuliani told Cuomo that it is simple for people to forget some facts and that is why it is not wise for the president to be interviewed by Mueller as it could become a perjury trap, much like what the FBI did to Martha Stewart. “You can make a mistake, if you want to you can say it’s a lie, it was a mistake,” Giuliani said. “I swear to God it was a mistake.”
“Be careful about swearing to God when you’re in Jerusalem,” Cuomo warned. “It may carry a little more weight right now with the answers that you give.” Giuliani dismissed the statement with a laugh and said that he heard a storm cloud coming.
The former New York mayor also addressed the concerns over what the president is able to do via his pardon power. “I can tell you as a lawyer, the pardon power is complete and there is no limitation on it,” he said, but added, “He’s not going to pardon himself.”
The comments came after President Trump drove liberals mad on Monday when he tweeted that he did, in fact, have the power to pardon himself for any crimes. But, he added that there would be no need to pardon himself as he did not commit any crimes to pardon himself for.
“As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!” he said.
Giuliani continued to express his belief that the FBI had embedded a spy in President Trump’s campaign, an assertion that Cuomo did not like. Cuomo noted that Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said that the FBI did its job properly and did not embed a spy in the president’s campaign.
“Gowdy and Nunes are not somebody’s lawyer. I don’t know the last time they practiced criminal law. I like both of them, but they don’t have the responsibility of representing somebody who is being treated in a way you wouldn’t treat a common criminal,” he said. “I’ve got more experience than the two of them by ten.”
Giuliani also continued his attacks on former FBI Director Comey but explained that his remark that the president could have shot Comey in the Oval Office and not been indicted was a “hypothetical.” He said, “Almost every head of state has the same kind of immunity.”
According to Giuliani, that is the least of what Comey should be concerned about these days. Giuliani said that an upcoming report from the inspector general of the Justice Department would prove that Comey acted improperly while he was in office and that he would be faced with consequences. “The last nail in the coffin is going to be that report,” he said.