Giuliani Insists Cohen Has No ‘Incriminating Information’ On Trump

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, Monday, May 12, 2014, in New York. Bush and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., courted some of Wall... Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, Monday, May 12, 2014, in New York. Bush and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., courted some of Wall Street’s most powerful political donors Monday night, competing for attention from tuxedoed hedge fund executives gathered in midtown Manhattan as the early jockeying in the 2016 presidential contest quietly continues. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) MORE LESS
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Outside Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that though former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has no damning information on the President, Giuliani still feels bad that a “respectable” person like Cohen was put through the indignities of an FBI raid.

“He possesses no incriminating information about the President,” Rudy Giuliani told the Huffington Post on Tuesday. “It’s of no consequence to the President,” he added about any charges Cohen may face.

While Giuliani feels confident that Cohen will be taken down solo, he did reportedly express dismay that prosecutors resorted to a pre-dawn raid to collect his records. “I did that in organized crime cases. I did that in terrorism cases. I did that in murder cases,” Giuliani told the Huffington Post. “I didn’t do that with respectable people.”

The FBI raided Cohen’s office and home in April, seizing documents related to his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels before the election and his taxi medallion holdings, among other things.

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  1. “I didn’t do that with respectable people.”

    What does that tell you about Cohen, Captain 9-11?

  2. Avatar for theod theod says:

    1 / Other “… respectable people” to Giuliani = Bernie Kerik

    2 / How would Trump/Giuliani know what Cohen has stored?

    3 / Organized crime people always have a Plan B for ratting on the Big Guy for immunity. Would that make Cohen respectable eventually?

  3. Well, there you have it. Problem resolved. I, for one, always trust Rudy to impart the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help him PeeBrain.

    (Is someone putting stuff into the WH water supply because there sure seems to be an awful lot of delusional hallucinating going on there these days…)

  4. Uh-huh yup yup yup I’m totally buying this. Cohen may have done some illegal stuff who knows but certainly nothing Trump his only longtime client and business partner could possibly be mixed up in and at any rate he’s respectable, which is the only reason this causes Trump any mental anguish, since Trump hates to see bad things happen to good people because, lessee, because it, uh, makes him question his faith! Yeah, that’s the ticket. You keep slinging it, Rudy, and maybe some of it will stick to the wall.

  5. Oh, Rudy,

    Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.

    I’m not a lawyer, nor am I a PR expert, but as a rule I don’t discount to the press the existence of incriminating evidence on my client. I claim my client is innocent.

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