Giuliani Brags About Being Closer To Trump Than Omarosa: ‘I Know She’s Lying’

On Tuesday, January 31, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, was present for U.S. President Donald Trump's live announcement of Colo. appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court of the United States nominee, in the East Room of the White House. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto)
On Tuesday, January 31, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, was present for U.S. President Donald Trump's live announcement of Colo. appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court of the United State... On Tuesday, January 31, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, was present for U.S. President Donald Trump's live announcement of Colo. appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court of the United States nominee, in the East Room of the White House. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani shielded the President from Omarosa Manigault Newman’s allegations that he knew about the DNC email hack before Wikileaks published them by bragging that he was “closer” to Trump that Omarosa.

“Omarosa’s allegation is not in her book — we have seen no proof to substantiate what she alleges, but it is that she says with great confidence, certainly on television, he knew about the DNC e-mails before Wikileaks dropped them,” he told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “I know she’s lying. … I know she’s lying because I was on the campaign more than she was. I was closer to him than she was.”

Giuliani then pulled a page from Trump’s tome by quashing Manigault Newman’s credibility: “She’s a little too much of a — kind of far out,” he said.

In a recent circuit of press interviews, Manigault Newman claimed Trump knew about the emails taken from the DNC’s server before they were released, which Trump has denied, despite publicly goading the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails during the 2016 campaign.

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  1. Don’t be shy, Rudy, that gets you nowhere in this world—brag to us some more about your liar-spotting abilities.

  2. But Rudy
    Have you slept with him?
    We suspect she did .
    You had better keep tapes for when they come after you , cause sure as shit he won’t cover your ass

  3. I was thinking the other way: Rudy put out, but Omarosa had some standards.

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    If I were looking for a TV lawyer (especially for a real lawyer, but even for a TV lawyer!), I’d look for somebody who was able to dispassionately present my argument and my case from a third-party perspective, not somebody who very probably has his own criminal exposure, or at least was neck-deep in the same dubious affairs.

    But that’s why I’m not a very stable genius.

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