Rudy Giuliani on Friday acknowledged meeting recently with a former Ukrainian diplomat who’s made allegations that could be used as political fodder by Giuliani’s client, Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported.
“We spoke on U.S.-Ukraine relations and politics in D.C. and Ukraine,” the former diplomat and current political consultant, Andrii Telizhenko, told the Post.
Giuliani confirmed the meeting — “He was in Washington and he came up to New York, and we spent most of the afternoon together” — but did not detail the content of his and Telizhenko’s discussions.
“I can’t tell you a thing about the meeting,” he told the Post. “When I have something to say, I’ll say it.”
Telizhenko at one time worked in the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office, as well as in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Post reported.
The DNC and Ukrainian Embassy staffers, the Post reported, have “strongly denied” a number of claims made by Telizhenko that mesh with Donald Trump’s own biases, like one assertion that a DNC contractor worked with the Ukrainian embassy to find dirt on Trump and Paul Manafort during the 2016 campaign.
Earlier this month, Giuliani cancelled a planned trip to Ukraine — one apparently intended to look into potential political dirt on Joe Biden, and to clear Manafort’s name — after the New York Times reported on it.
“We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do,” Giuliani told the Times, hinting at “information” that he said “will be very, very helpful to my client, and may turn out to be helpful to my government.”
The Biden campaign called the effort a “blatantly political smear.”
The current Ukrainian prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, appeared unwilling to get involved publicly.
“I do not want Ukraine to again be the subject of U.S. presidential elections,” he told Bloomberg.
So, if Giuliani acknowledges this, does that make an honest admission, or some kind of lie? It has to be some kind of lie from this source. If Giuliani just told the truth, his head would probably explode instantly (and I hope someone gets in on video). "We are not meddling in an election . . . " that was probably his escape valve kicking in.
Collusion? No, you’re the collusion.
Total exoneration…
In New Zealand, they had harsher gun policies passed a week after the Christchurch shooting. In Germany, the Bundestag took up the issue of digitally manipulated video a decade ago, pretty much as soon as they saw the digitally-added yellow line on the field in sports tv and extrapolated. Digital placement of whatever was strictly regulated as it is inherently deceptive. In the US, congress sends thoughts and prayers to the loved ones of shot persons, and presumably sees synthetic deceptions as already covered in FTC truth in advertising rules. They just aren’t worth the enforcement.
Jailiani is going to have his date with destiny. Right now, Trump and Barr are at bat. For THEM to succeed a few social structures built up over 75 years have to be significantly altered for the worse in the space of weeks and months…provided that everyone does what Trump and Barr want.
“I can’t tell you a thing about the meeting,” he told the Post. “When I have something to say, I’ll say it.”
Why not, Rudes? You always seem to say plenty even when you don’t have anything to say.
This is going to be another episode of Giuliani hilarity. He doesn’t have shit, and everyone knows he doesn’t have shit, so he’s going to end up looking like a fool once more which, one must admit, is his best look.