Donald Trump is sweaty and nervous today. Rudy Giuliani let the proverbial cat out of bag last night during an interview with Sean Hannity. How is it that Fox News – inarguably the codependent propaganda-media wing of the Bigly presidency – keeps breaking all of these terrible stories for Trump? First it was Trump implicating himself in a ton of sh-t when he called into Fox & Friends last week. Now Giuliani is admitting that Trump and Michael Cohen committed multiple federal crimes with the Stormy Daniels payout, not to mention the fact that Trump lied about it repeatedly. So, as I said, Trump is very sweaty and ragey right now. Which is why one of his lawyers must have taken over his Twitter to post this message:
Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2018
…very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2018
…despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2018
While this isn’t the point of this story, I’d just like to point how we’ve become desensitized to how f–king bizarre ALL of this is. This is Trump’s personal Twitter account and his lawyer clearly took control of it to tweet that in Trump’s “voice.” It’s utterly bonkers. As for what Trump’s lawyer is saying…that argument doesn’t make any sense AND it’s still a crime! Regardless of where the $130K came from initially – Trump’s retainer or not – Cohen still made the payment to Stormy Daniels to affect the results of the election, which is a campaign contribution, which is against the law.
Also: Giuliani went back on Fox News this morning, appearing IN PERSON on Fox & Friends and he was probably trying to “clean up” his mess, but of course he made it worse.
Aaaand he did it again. Explaining why Cohen paid the hush money to Stormy Daniels, #RudyGiuliani says:
"Imagine if that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton."
So… yea, he just tied the payment directly to the campaign. pic.twitter.com/yiu3Zg7ZYO
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 3, 2018
Photos courtesy of WENN.
haaaaaah omg, shut UP Rudy! he’s senile or something. The morning show is like watching a lawyer ask super leading questions of their client. They try to give these people every opportunity to say the right thing, feeding them sentences, and trump & co cannot help but step in it.
He was a good lawyer at one point, but that point was 30 years ago. Avenatti apparently has at least six potential clients in this matter.
Have you heard Avenatti hint about the 1.5 million payoff supposedly paid by someone else for another affair? He is hinting it was really for Dotard.
@bros— No don’t shut him up!
Keep talking….all of you…keeeeep talking!
talktalktalktalktalktalktalk yourselves out of our lives and into a nice cell (or professional/social obliviion) – please!!!
was at dinner when a friend told me about this last night. what morons. all the attorneys I was with could not believe that guiliani could be so dense. what an ego maniac to go out there and think he’s going to make a difference for the better. he’s been awful before and since september 11th. self righteous and vindictive ghouliani.
Maybe he’s secretly part of the resistance…
“Sure I’ll be your lawyer. Oops! Proved your guilt. Oops! Doubled down.”
Seriously. This is the guy that brought down the mob, and Michael Milken. He must have some kind of endgame in mind.
I think so too.
I am thinking Rudy has early stages of senility or dementia, I mean WTF is going on?!! I think The Cheeto has a little something something going wrong in his brains workings too. There are way too many old rich white men running the government, if the White House actually was filled with a good representation of the population things could be so much better.
And that greedy old buzzard Wilbur Ross, in his 80s, who according to White House leaks falls asleep during meetings. “It’ll be just like having Reagan back again!”
Rudy seemed rather demented at the Republican convention. Never would have guessed he was a lawyer.
Hahahahahahaha The high priced attorney used roll instead of role. Yep. Bigly is rolling down the hill.
Eh… wonder if he’s doing it as payback for not being made a cabinet member of SoS… Would be amazing Karma…If Ghouliani wasn’t so
f-ing stupid! lol
The only peace of mind that I have right now in regards to this hellish nightmare that we are in: Bonespurs and everyone in his orbit are complete and total morons. Isn’t that crazy, to be grateful for the stupidity of our country’s leader and his cohorts? Yes, their ignorance is dangerous. But it will also be their downfall.
Yes, including the attorney who wrote that message. He meant to write “role” but used “roll.” Even when this administration tries to sound smart, the dumbness shines through.
It’s been suggested the lawyer was trying to “sound like” Trump, so he purposely misspelled one word. HA HA HA.
YES! That’s what I was coming to say. Even his attorneys are complete idiots who can’t spell simple words.
Three and four syllable words..definitely not trump…
No randomly Capitalized letters, either.
I listened to a clip with Giuliani and he sounds just like Trump when he talks. Had to turn it off.
Thank god for the idiocy, imagine if Trump had the reserve and self control of Putin, now that would be scary, at least with this circus peoples masks are off.
Whelp I guess Giuliani is gonna end the Mueller investigation a whole lot sooner like he promised! It’s true when he was the USA he was good but that was many years ago. He should have stayed hidden and count his cash. However, I guess we have him to thank for his loose lips.
I can see how it ends now. The agents come to arrest Giuliani and he descends the stairs, grimacing in his Marilyn Monroe drag from that skit in 2000 with Donald Trump. “Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup!”
Giuliani and Trump just remind me of Dumb and Dumber. I’m an attorney and this whole thing makes no sense. Giuliani isn’t savvy enough to use the media. He must think he is Avenatti.
Yes! Dumb and dumber has me laughing so hard. Or Laurel &Hardy. Or the Stooges. LoL.
Keystone Kops!
Giuliani thinks he’s Mueller’s equal in legal strategy. Giuliani is a delusional prick.
Dumb and DumberER. The first two were actually funny and endearing. T and G are the moronic sequels that can’t be stomached.
I think he might be colluding with Kanye to keep Kanye out of the news.
THAT’S IT!
And continues to misspell “roll” . . . 🤣
“The deal involved no Cinnabons whatsoever. WITCH HUNT!”
Somehow, methinks Cheeto would enjoy it if Cinnabons were part of the supposed conspiracy against him —
“They weren’t even real Cinnabons — the was no collusion, eh, I mean icing and I know Cinnabons– bigly. No one knows more about Cinnabons than me. They’re the best roles, believe me, the best and I only eat the best roles, only the best! WITCH HUNT!”
Russian rollett. The Russians have the biggest rolletts, the best.
Either Rudy is intentionally sandbagging Trump, or he’s such an incompetent lawyer he needs to be disbarred.
His handling of this issue has been an absolute disaster and his words will come back completely sink Trump.
And wasn’t he just named Trump’s attorney like, yesterday or the day before? It feels like a month’s worth of garbage that has spilled out of his face-hole.
Rudy wants to be Attorney General and to do that, all he needs to do is make Trump happy.
Yeah, but this, isn’t that. This is just making things worse.
I think he’s just getting ahead of the story that Trump has to admit to paying her off, reimbursing his lawyer in some way. As long as it wasn’t campaign funds, which they are saying it wasn’t, there’s probably not much to get Trump on. He has never “under oath” denied paying off the porn star. So now comes Trump admitting to it, but that it wasn’t campaign funds. Now, if he did use campaign funds and it’s proven, then Trump is in trouble.
It’s still an in kind donation and illegal, campaign funds or not.
+1
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/992015378762096640
He did admit for all to see that the money was spent because they didn’t want it coming out before election day, though.
OMG!! They rolled the crypt keeper out AGAIN?! The incompetence is breathtaking!
It’s been reported that Mueller has been advising the WH that they needed to get a serious legal team in place and that his team would be moving once this happened,
he must be bewildered…
LOL, I can imagine them trying to be like, please mr president, we are coming for you, and we want you to be in shape for when we do. and mr president is like, yah, I got this, and cracks open a can of diet coke and a giant bag of pork rinds and sits on the couch in his sweat pants watching real housewives.
That visual made me cackle mostly because it’s so easy to summon!
If that’s the hold up (waiting on a competent legal team), then he may be crazy like a fox. He’ll next add a 99-year-old who watched one episode of Law and Order.
Disclaimer: The 99 yo could likely do a better job than Rudolph the Cool Ghoul.
I find it interesting that they would hire Clinton’s impeachment lawyer. Are they expecting Trump to be impeached?
Yes, wasn’t that interesting. Why would they hire someone with that particular area of experience?
Why would a good lawyer sign up for this clown show. I bet the impeachment lawyer won’t last either.
I’m puzzled as to why Mueller would do that. Maybe he’s bored because Trump is too easy and he prefers to be challenged intellectually. This would be like the coach of a sports team saying “we’ll wait until you bring in a ringer to give you a fighting chance, because we are gonna wipe the floor with you if you don’t.”
I suspect he may simply want to make sure DT doesn’t have grounds for appeal due to lawyer incompetence.
That makes sense, Rapunzel.
You know his lawyers wrote that tweet because Trump “liked” it. lol.
https://twitter.com/TrumpsAlert/status/991998319332286464
I give up.
But we are soooooo close!!
So obvious Trump didn’t compose those tweets.
No random capitalization anywhere, definitely not him.
I like the use of ‘roll’ to throw people off the scent.
Yep.
Yeah, you’re right. The commas were actually inserted after clauses.
Lol they literally provide legal arguments every time they say anything
The ‘roll’ it didn’t play is cracking me up rn.
Attorneys need spelling tests!! Lol
See Neelyo above …trying to throw us off the scent, indeed!
They’ll blame it on auto correct. Covfefe it all.
I always figured that a retainer was to pay legal fees, i.e. to file something in court and as payment to the lawyer for hours billed. At least that is the way it worked when I divorced. I paid upfront an amount and then paid monthly for hours billed and any fees associated with filing in court. Any money I had to pay out, equity in the house, was separate and extra. Am I wrong?
No. Trump’s just trying to claim that the rich & famous use a different legal system than the little people.
Like Leona Helmsley and her “taxes are for the little people.”
Keep soaking up that spotlight, Rudolph. Book more interviews! Talk it up like it’s 1988!
He doesn’t even understand the basics of the hundreds of pages of FEC guidelines for permissible federal campaign activities and contribution rules. Tying payments to the election timeframe is exactly what shows those rules apply.
This is crazy. How can they be so stupid?
Easily. The bigger questions are, how were they allowed to fail up this far? Why haven’t mass uprisings stopped this?
I am so confused! Why have a NDA with someone with whom he had no involvement? If not an affair, what is she not supposed to disclose? Did she do his taxes?
It’s like the ultimate confusing double negative.
I especially like the repeated claim that MC simply handled these “things” for the boss that he did so little work for. Which implies that any random person could claim an affair and be paid off without question.
Kindergartners could weave a more believable and coherent story.
Exactly. That a “great businessman” like Trump would give money for nothing is a ludicrous notion…but the Trumpsters cannot see that.
Seriously. My toddler is more convincing when he says he has not pooped in his pants…as the poop fumes fill the room!
and the circular logic of “we paid her because she was trying to extort me with claiming an affair.”
so, she was trying to extort you for something you claim didn’t happen, so you paid her to shut her up? about something that didn’t happen?
??????? What. The. F*CK.
Any normal and law abiding person would have reported her to the cops. If it didn’t happen and someone is asking for hush money, that’s called extortion.
Giuliani is the gift that keeps on giving! 😂
Every word they say or tweet while trying to fix their own mess just makes their grave deeper. Such bigly sad morons
Yeah there’s way too many oxford commas in those tweets for them to have been written by Trump. He doesn’t know what a comma is.
Yes. Trump doesn’t know what a comma is, and uses thousands of exclamation points instead of periods. No way did Trump write this
It also doesn’t have WITCH HUNT in it, LOL.
Fake Tweet from a failing, going Out of Business lawyer! SAD!
Trump always brags how he will take anyone to court, is not afraid of litigation, because he is always in the right. Yet he wants us to believe that he is innocent of this woman’s claims but had no problem paying her off with $130,000 to make it go away? So is he liar about how he has always claimed to be unafraid to take anyone to court over money that he says he doesn’t owe?
Giuliani has always been a fascist, one who treats women abominably.
OH shit…the moment Rudy joined his legal team I kinda thought this was going to happen. Bury yourselves deeper!
Is anyone else slightly perturbed by the gratuitous use of commas in the first tweet? No? Just me? Holy run on sentence, Batman!
It seems we’re witnessing the final stages of the great unravelling. It’s sad, scary, almost incomprehensible, and extremely embarassing for the entire nation, regardless of whom you voted for.
Even Canada is no longer laughing. We are concerned for all our extended family to the south. Yikes.
The commas in that first tweet are fine. It’s not a run on.
Source: I’m an English prof.
The sentence is still poorly structured. The commas and phrasing keep it from being concise. So while the excessive commas may not be gratuitous, they are certainly perturbing.
That’s how lawyers write though.
Confederacy of Dunces. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. All The President’s Men. Any other ready-made titles when Netflix does a series on this clusterf*ck?
Oh my god!! I thought the exact same thing! …confederacy of dunces….so true!
Now we only need for Ignatius (tRump) to start bellowing about his valve.
Hey where have you been, Jerusha????
Missed you.
Hi, Kitten. Celebitchy has a stricture against wishing death on anyone and since that is all I think about, dream about, it puts a damper on my commenting. I do read all the comments and am happy to see you, lightpurple, eric, esmom, et al, still fighting for truth and justice. I’ll dip in occasionally. As I’ve said before, I thought I knew hatred when Cheny was acting president. Little did I know.
All the President’s Yes-Men.
If they are trying to get ahead of the story then they are failing miserably at it – they are only making it worse.
Mueller and sexy chiselled cheeks are laughing all the way to the court room, IQ45 and Uncle Fester are doing all their work for them.
It’s really funny to watch the WH and its associates fall up the stairs.
“Boy oh boy this is gonna be good!”
–Flounder from Animal House
I have the very strong feeling Cheeto Benito won’t be able to take all this scrutiny and criticism much past August. He’s covered in flop sweat even now.
Off topic: one of my fantasies for you, Kaiser, is that Avenatti is single and that you get to meet him because of the coverage you do, and that it turns into you moving to LA with your fantasy-bae. These things do happen. But I THINK you said he was married in an old post, lol!
He’s divorced. Also, I know someone who was opposing counsel in a case. He said Avenatti was a good guy and a good attorney. Fun fact–undergrad Avenatti went to Penn, alma mater of the majority of the Trump family.
What a time to be alive.
I’m mostly impressed that the lawyer was tweeting out of his account at 4:45 am. Did he grab it while Trump was in the shower? Or was this the end of a long night of chasing Trump around the oval office desk to wrest the phone out of his hand??
They challenged him to an eating contest with Big Macs and shakes, saying only a loser wouldn’t win it, kept it up until he passed out, then they went for it.
Rudy, you are such an idiot. Perfect match for Trump!
Trump does NOT write his OWN TWEETS.
Dan Scavino Jr., the only one remaining from the original gang, researches, is in touch with the ‘base’ and does the homework. Trump has NEVER SENT AN EMAIL, much less a tweet. Dan is in charge. He passes everything by Trump and then pecks it out. There are some that you can TELL Trump wrote. The completely incoherent cofefe remarks at 5am on a Sunday.
“Trump is so broke…”
[chorus]
“HOW BROKE IS HE?”
“Trump is so broke that he had to reimburse Cohen for the $130,000 hush money payment in monthly installments.”