Giuliani Sounds Less Confident of Trump's Denials
December 17, 2018 at 9:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Jonathan Chait: In an interview yesterday, George Stephanopoulos asked President Trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani if Roger Stone ever gave Trump a heads-up about forthcoming WikiLeaks email publications. No, he didnt, no, he replied. But then Giuliani seemed to reconsider his certitude almost immediately. He blinked, and then softened his denial I dont believe so before immediately transitioning into a conditional defense of the very charge he had been asked to deny: But again, if Roger Stone gave anybody a heads-up about WikiLeaks leaks, thats not a crime. It would be like giving him a heads-up that the Times is going to print something. One the the crime, this is why this thing is so weird, strange. The crime is conspiracy to hack; collusion is not a crime; it doesnt exist.'
If you understand the facts and the law in this case, this much should be clear: Trump is almost certainly guilty of both collusion and a crime. And Giulianis backpedalling defense reveals that he is no longer confident Trumps denials will hold.
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