Fake Lawyer Giuliani Trips Again

Nasty old ghoul, untethered Rudy "Noun, Verb, 9-11" Giuliani will have more 'splainin' to do after a relatively short hiatus from blowing up the legal positions of his "client", Putin loyalist and fraudster Donald "Rump" Trump. This time, it's not about the Stormy Saga payments, or Rump's likely multiple mistresses being paid for silence, etc. After opining on Korean hostages, regime change in Iran and other things far afield of what he's supposed to be doing (getting familiar with "facts" in the legal case), Giuliani's indicated that Rump personally foiled the proposed merger between AT&T and Time Warner, the parent company of arch-nemesis CNN (as "proof" the money they paid to shakedown artist Michael Cohen never influenced Rump):

“Whatever lobbying was done didn’t reach the president,” Giuliani said, offering as proof the fact that AT&T’s proposed merger with Time-Warner has not gone through. “He did drain the swamp ... The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted.” (emphasis added)

The significance of that statement is that the Justice Department's anti-trust division is supposed to make its decision independently based on facts, not on directions from the White House. The case is currently in U.S. District Court, with AT&T and Time Warner now armed with a statement from Rump's "lawyer" that Rump improperly intervened in DOJ's anti-trust process:

"Trump has personally railed against the Time Warner-AT&T deal, a stance that may well have more to do with his burning hatred of CNN than anything else. The Department of Justice’s opposition to the detail raised eyebrows because, while its position may be defensible on antitrust grounds, it doesn’t fit with the rest of the Trump administration’s laissez-faire ideology. The Trump administration has insisted that the president’s personal opinions have nothing to do with the DOJ’s position.

Someone apparently forgot to send Giuliani the memo, and on Saturday, he once again had to walk back a careless remark."

The court's decision on the merger is expected June 12, and we hope it goes against Rump. Whether Giuliani will still be employed by then by an increasingly aggravated Rump is doubtful.

(photo: Mr. Big Mouth)