Trump: Giuliani Just Started And ‘He’ll Get His Facts Straight’

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President Donald Trump told reporters Friday morning that his new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, knows that the Mueller investigation is a “witch hunt.”

“He started yesterday. He’ll get his facts straight. He’s a great guy. But what he does is he feels it’s a very bad thing for our country, and he happens to be right.”

During a series of interviews this week, Giuliani said that Trump paid back his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for a hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who has claimed that she had an affair with Trump about a decade ago.

Before boarding Air Force One to travel to the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Trump addressed the Giuliani situation once again.

“I will tell you this, I will tell you this, when Rudy made the statement, Rudy’s great, but Rudy had just started, and he wasn’t totally familiar with everything. And Rudy, we love Rudy, he’s a special guy. What he really understands is that this is a witch hunt. He understands that probably better than anybody.”

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  1. My Favorite headline of the day from Salon
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    Don and Rudy plot their last big heist

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    Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani: A pair of aging New York goons plot their last big heist

  2. Dumb and dumber! Sad.

  3. So drump is saying to be clear that one of his lawyers is going on TV representing himself and is lying or unknowingly giving false information.

  4. “He started yesterday He’ll get his facts straight."

    Sounds like a plan. Hire a new lead lawyer to handle a major legal issue, possibly one that will define your legacy, if not keep you out of jail. Send him out on a publicity tour to extoll listeners on what he thinks and what his plans are for the case.
    
    Bring him back to the office afterwards and go over the facts in the case with him.
  5. “He feels it’s a very bad thing for our country, and he happens to be right.”

    He is right. It’s been excruciating.

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