Current Events > Rudy Giuliani's actions are, to me, the most fascinating of the Trump admin

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-tape.html

Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trumps personal lawyer, confirmed in a telephone conversation on Friday that Mr. Trump had discussed payments to Ms. McDougal with Mr. Cohen in person on the recording. He said it was less than two minutes long, said Mr. Trump did not know he was being recorded and claimed that the president had done nothing wrong.

Mr. Giuliani said there was no indication on the tape that Mr. Trump knew before the conversation about the payment from the Enquirers parent company, American Media Inc., to Ms. McDougal.

Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance, Mr. Giuliani said. The recording cuts off, according to three people familiar with it, and it is not clear how the discussion ended.

Mr. Giuliani initially indicated the men discussed a payment from Mr. Trump to Ms. McDougal separate from the Enquirers payment to buy her story. Later, he said that Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen had actually discussed buying the rights to Ms. McDougals story from the Enquirer, a move that would have effectively reimbursed the newspaper for its payments to her.

That payment was never made, Mr. Giuliani said, adding that Mr. Trump had told Mr. Cohen that if he were to make a payment related to Ms. McDougal, to write a check rather than send cash, so it could be properly documented.

Neither of Mr. Giulianis descriptions of the conversations explains why, when The Wall Street Journal revealed the existence of the A.M.I. payment days before the election, Mr. Trumps campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said, We have no knowledge of any of this. She said Ms. McDougals claim of an affair was totally untrue.

Like, obviously he has the sisyphean task of rolling Trump's shit uphill, but it seems like every time he tries to do that he raises more questions than he answers
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Yeah, he sometimes seems like he's actively sabotaging Trump by saying just enough to raise additional questions and sometimes outright admissions.

Maybe it's an inside job to take down a mobster....
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