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Antifar
10/25/19 3:05:40 PM
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-butt-dials-nbc-reporter-heard-discussing-need-cash-n1071901


Late in the evening on Oct. 16, Rudy Giuliani made a phone call to this reporter.

The fact that Giuliani was reaching out wasnt remarkable. He and the reporter had spoken earlier that night for a story about his ties to a fringe Iranian opposition group.

But this call, it would soon become clear, wasnt a typical case of a source following up with a reporter.

The call came in at 11:07 p.m. and went to voicemail; the reporter was asleep.

The next morning, a message exactly three minutes long was sitting in his voicemail. In the recording, the words tumbling out of Giulianis mouth were not directed at the reporter. He was speaking to someone else, someone in the same room.

Giuliani can be heard discussing overseas dealings and lamenting the need for cash, though it's difficult to discern the full context of the conversation.

The call appeared to be one of the most unfortunate of faux pas: what is known, in casual parlance, as a butt dial.

And it wasnt the first time it had happened.

You know, Giuliani says at the start of the recording. Charles would have a hard time with a fraud case cause he didnt do any due diligence.

It wasnt clear who Charles is, or who may have been implicated in a fraud. In fact, much of the messages first minute is difficult to comprehend, in part because the voice of the other man in the conversation is muffled and barely intelligible.

But then Giuliani says something thats crystal clear.

"Let's get back to business."

He goes on.

"I gotta get you to get on Bahrain."

Giuliani is well-connected in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Last December, he visited the Persian Gulf nation and had a one-on-one meeting with King Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa in the royal palace. King receives high-level U.S. delegation, read the headline of the state-run Bahrain News Agency blurb about the visit.

Giuliani runs a security consulting company, but its not clear why he would have a meeting with Bahrains king. Was he acting in his capacity as a consultant? As Trumps lawyer? Or as an international fixer running a shadow foreign policy for the president?

In May, Giuliani told the Daily Beast his firm had signed a deal with Bahrain to advise its police force on counter-terrorism measures. But the Bahrain News Agency account of the meeting suggested Giuliani was viewed more like an ambassador than a security consultant. HM the King praised the longstanding Bahraini-U.S. relations, noting keenness of the two countries to constantly develop them, it said.

The voicemail yielded no details about the meeting. But Giuliani can be heard telling the man that hes got to call Robert again tomorrow.

Is Robert around? Giuliani asks.

Hes in Turkey, the man responds.

Giuliani replies instantly. The problem is we need some money.

The two men then go silent. Nine seconds pass. No word is spoken. Then Giuliani chimes in again.

We need a few hundred thousand, he says.

Its unclear what the two men were talking about. But Giuliani is known to have worked closely with a Robert who has ties to Turkey.

His name is Robert Mangas, and hes a lawyer at the firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, as well as a registered agent of the Turkish government.

Giuliani himself was employed by Greenberg Traurig until about May 2018.

Mangass name appears in court documents related to the case of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader charged in the U.S. with laundering Iranian money in a scheme to evade American sanctions.

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BLAKUboy
10/25/19 3:08:03 PM
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Remember when Trump named Rudy his "cybersecurity adviser"?
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Antifar
10/25/19 3:08:06 PM
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Continued

Giuliani was brought on to assist Zarrab in 2017. He traveled to Turkey with his former law partner Michael Mukasey and attempted to strike a deal with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to secure the release of their jailed client, alarming the federal prosecutor leading the case.

Giuliani and Mangas were both employed by Greenberg Traurig at the time. The firm and Mangas had registered with the Justice Department to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of Turkey, according to an affidavit from Mangas.

Mangas did not return a request for comment.

Giulianis conversation partner can be heard responding to the $20,000 comment. But its possible to make out only the beginning of his answer, and even that is somewhat garbled.

Id say even if Bahrain could get, Im not sure how good [unintelligible words] with his people, the man says.

Yeah, okay, Giuliani says.

You want options? I got options, the man says.

Yeah give me options, Giuliani replies.

The exchange took place at the 2:20 mark in the voicemail message. The other man does most of the talking in the remaining 40 seconds, and its difficult to piece together what he says.

The late-night Giuliani butt dial came 18 days after a mid-afternoon Giuliani butt dial.

The first one happened when the NBC News reporter was at a fifth-birthday party for an extended family member in central New Jersey.

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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 3:09:54 PM
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Why are Trump's associates so incompetent yet so successful
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tremain07
10/25/19 3:11:00 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Why are Trump's associates so incompetent yet so successful

William Barr and the rest of the Republicans protect them like they're the Hope Diamond and if somehow they can't the supreme court who has republicans up there who believe that republicans are not accountable to the law will.
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CADE FOSTER
10/25/19 3:12:33 PM
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 3:12:58 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
Is anyone in Trumps inner circle not fucking dirty or criminals?

Melania?
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DarkChozoGhost
10/25/19 3:13:44 PM
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Antifar posted...
Or as an international fixer running a shadow foreign policy for the president?

likely
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hockeybub89
10/25/19 3:16:17 PM
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Antifar
10/25/19 3:16:18 PM
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AlecSkorpio
10/25/19 3:16:36 PM
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Anyone got a link to the recording?
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FrozenXylophone
10/25/19 3:17:52 PM
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Late night BOOTY call
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spudger
10/25/19 3:18:41 PM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
Antifar posted...
Or as an international fixer running a shadow foreign policy for the president?

likely

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pogo_rabid
10/25/19 3:19:06 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Why are Trump's associates so incompetent yet so successful

To be fair, Rudy did clean up NYC quite a bit. It's a shithole now, but it was a super shithole before he became mayor.

Say what you will about his tactics, then, but they worked in hindsight.
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Halo478
10/25/19 3:19:23 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
CADE FOSTER posted...
Is anyone in Trumps inner circle not fucking dirty or criminals?

Melania?

she had trump circumvent our immigrant laws to bring her parents over so no
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FrozenXylophone
10/25/19 3:20:38 PM
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pogo_rabid posted...
in hindsight.
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pogo_rabid
10/25/19 3:22:19 PM
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FrozenXylophone posted...
pogo_rabid posted...
in hindsight.

You have a problem?
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Zikten
10/25/19 3:23:03 PM
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everyone needs some kind of lock on their phone so this doesn't happen. I used to do this all the time. and I finally put a pin lock on my phone after the last straw. send out a mass facebook message to like half the people on my friend list, that was a link to a cracked article called "what I learned from cleaning up murder scenes" and my sister in law who hates even violent movies, was mortified. and I was embarrassed and had to explain I didn't mean to send that
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Jiggy101011
10/25/19 3:25:26 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
Is anyone in Trumps inner circle not fucking dirty or criminals?


Baron?
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CADE FOSTER
10/25/19 3:26:27 PM
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Jiggy101011 posted...
CADE FOSTER posted...
Is anyone in Trumps inner circle not fucking dirty or criminals?


Baron?

We dont know for sure
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FrozenXylophone
10/25/19 3:26:40 PM
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pogo_rabid posted...
FrozenXylophone posted...
pogo_rabid posted...
in hindsight.

You have a problem?


Hind means rear aka butt
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pogo_rabid
10/25/19 3:27:15 PM
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FrozenXylophone posted...
pogo_rabid posted...
FrozenXylophone posted...
pogo_rabid posted...
in hindsight.

You have a problem?


Hind means rear aka butt


What's your point.
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Malfunction
10/25/19 3:27:54 PM
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Why are all these people so inept, corrupt, awful, some combination of all of these etc
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spudger
10/25/19 3:28:26 PM
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Jiggy101011 posted...
CADE FOSTER posted...
Is anyone in Trumps inner circle not fucking dirty or criminals?


Baron?

hes the mastermind behind all of this

Baron is the key
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Polycosm
10/25/19 3:32:45 PM
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Zikten posted...
everyone needs some kind of lock on their phone so this doesn't happen.

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1187370042788405249
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spudger
10/25/19 3:41:51 PM
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i've never onced done this.

i dont get how this happens.

just tap the lock button and you're good
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Machete
10/25/19 4:19:24 PM
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Lock Giuliani up
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DuneMan
10/25/19 4:24:04 PM
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CADE FOSTER posted...
Is anyone in Trumps inner circle not fucking dirty or criminals?

Tiff-? Oh, you said inner circle...
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TheVipaGTS
10/25/19 5:05:02 PM
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This is a movie right? I was cast as an extra and my check will be in the mail soon, yea?

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pres_madagascar
10/26/19 3:41:02 AM
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Questionmarktarius
10/26/19 3:43:59 AM
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Machete posted...
Lock Giuliani up

That's probably going to happen, yes.
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iPhone_7
10/26/19 3:49:15 AM
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Has Trump thrown him under the bus yet?
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cjsdowg
10/26/19 3:53:29 AM
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Zikten posted...
that was a link to a cracked article called "what I learned from cleaning up murder scenes"


I cracked..those where the days
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BlackCubeMossad
10/26/19 4:05:03 AM
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Is there audio of this? Because theres audio and video of Obama promising Putin more flexibility after his re-election.
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ASithLord7
10/26/19 4:06:41 AM
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BlackCubeMossad posted...
Is there audio of this? Because theres audio and video of Obama promising Putin more flexibility after his re-election.

Shut the fuck up SMAL.
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