Giuliani On Cohen’s Biz Pitches: Trump ‘Wasn’t Aware Of That Situation’

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 05: Latest appointee to President Donald Trump's legal team and former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani takes questions from the media after speaking at the Conference on Iran on May 5, 20... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 05: Latest appointee to President Donald Trump's legal team and former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani takes questions from the media after speaking at the Conference on Iran on May 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Over one thousand delegates from representing Iranian communities from forty states attends the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and Democracy. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Michael Cohen was pitching his close access to President Donald Trump to private companies and potential clients without the President’s knowledge, according to Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

“I talked to the President only one time about this and that was the first day it came out and he wasn’t aware of that situation that now, I guess, the facts are getting a little contorted,” Giuliani told CNN Thursday.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday evening that Cohen bragged about his access to Trump and even showed pictures of himself and Trump to potential clients. A Republican strategist who spoke with CNN said that Cohen would tell clients that they should “fire” their current lawyers and hire him because “I’m closest to the President. I’m his personal lawyer.”

Trump “wasn’t aware of the situation in which he got money from any of that group that was mentioned originally,” Giuliani added. “I doubt it. Yeah, I doubt it. He didn’t know about any of the original stuff.”

It was revealed on Tuesday that several companies paid Cohen’s consulting firm in order to gain insight into the Trump administration, including AT&T and the American affiliate of a company owned by a Russian oligarch who attended Trump’s inauguration.

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  1. Shorter: Cohen was a freelance crook.

  2. So tomorrow when Trump says he did know about the bribery Rudy is going to say what?

  3. This is true only in the sense that, as a purely clinical matter, the spectrum of Donald Trump’s mental state cannot be shown to extend to awareness.

  4. “He didn’t know about any of the original stuff.”

    I think that is probably the truest statement ever made about Drumpf, applicable to any and all subjects that come up.

  5. This is supposed to make us confident in DJT’s assessment of his staff and his national security acumen? He doesn’t know about their illegal ventures involving him?

    Cool if a dem president was this oblivious too, Rudy?

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