“It’s like a poor imitation of The Godfather,” former New York City mayor and personal attorney for President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani told Fox News recently.
He was referring to former vice president and current Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s insistence that he knew nothing of his son Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine.
By Andy B. Mayfair
And the fur is still flying.
“He says, ‘I don’t know my own family’s business’ — some of it sounds like Kay Corleone,” Giuliani continued, a reference to willful ignorance. “He’d have to be a fool.”
For his part, Biden managed to get his foot out of his mouth long enough to tell CNN that he felt “embarrassed” for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and wants to investigate the Bidens. “Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life.”
Like a pebble tossed into a pond, the fracas is inevitably causing ripples. “Scrutiny is increasing on the president’s personal attorney, as his indicted former associate Lev Parnas begins to tease information involving the former New York Mayor,” MSNBC reported yesterday. “Meanwhile, Giuliani is asking Sen. Lindsey Graham to investigate Bill Taylor for declining to give visas to people he says are witnesses to a grand conspiracy he’s uncovered.”
Politics being what it is in 2019, trust is a rare commodity, even between the president and his personal attorney. Speaking to Fox News once again, Giuliani sought to protect himself from even his client. “You can assume that I talk to him early and often,” he stated, adding that the two have a “very, very good relationship.”
Still, the former prosecutor knew enough to protect his back. “I’ve seen things written like (Trump) is going to throw me under the bus. When they say that, I say he isn’t, but I have insurance. This is ridiculous. We are very good friends. He knows what I did was in order to defend him, not to dig up dirt on [former Vice President Joe] Biden.”
Soon after, Giuliani “took to Twitter to elaborate on his statement, claiming the “insurance” comment he made was both “sarcastic” and “relates to the files in my safe about the Biden Family’s 4 decade monetizing of his office,” reported slate.com. “The president’s lawyer added that if he were to “disappear’ then the files “will appear immediately.”
The former mayor elaborated during a conversation on “America’s News HQ” with host Ed Henry, pointing out that the “case has been really simple from the day that Joe Biden confessed to committing bribery in 2018. Although, he said precisely what was attributed to President Trump a year and a half later… Basically, they’ll prove that he committed bribery.”
