Rudy Outdoes Himself

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This morning the president’s lawyer tweeted:

Giuliani’s shoot-from-the-hips lawyering is already legendary but this tweet is special on so many levels. Let us count the ways:

  1. Citing Wikipedia as  a source.
  2. Adding the proviso “if true” to highlight how dubious the source is.
  3. Saying the “below excerpt” when you don’t provide a link or excerpt.
  4. And most importantly, relying on the pretence that the Steele Dossier is relevant to Trump’s legal troubles, when in fact the Mueller investigation was started for other reasons.

It’s hard to think of a lawyer comparable to Rudy Guiliani unless one turns to satirical animated cartoons.

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