Showing posts with label Rudy Giuliani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rudy Giuliani. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 10/13/19
Tlaib: Dems Have Discussed Arresting White House Officials Who Refuse to Comply With Subpoenas
NSC Staffer Reportedly Responsible For Discussing Ukraine Call With Others
Endless Wars, Open-Ended Commitments
NBA’s Steve Kerr Compares Communist China To Owning An AR-15
Andrew McCarthy Unravels The Real Russia Collusion Narrative
Poll: A Four-Way Democratic Race in Iowa
Another Newsweek Conspiracy: 'Greta Thunberg Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize' By Big Oil
Hunter Biden Steps Down From Chinese Board in Bid to Fight Back
Is Louisiana’s Dem Governor On The Way Out?
Democrats Ratchet Up Impeachment Secrecy
Trump Backs Rudy Giuliani After Hedging on His Status as Personal Lawyer
Friday, October 11, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Lindsey Graham on Inviting Rudy Giuliani to Testify Before Senate
It's about time the Senate got involved in all of this.
RELATED: Lindsey Graham to tell Nancy Pelosi that Senate will not impeach Trump
Monday, September 30, 2019
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Rudy Giuliani Fires Back at Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Mueller Probe
Hillary's so done and gone for that she doesn't care what comes out of her mouth, much less the irony that comes behind it.
RELATED: Clinton 'exactly wrong' on Trump indictment claims: Whitewater independent counsel Robert Ray
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Don McGahn: Person of the Week
Claim To Fame: former White House counsel
Why He's The Person of the Week: for single-handedly saving Donald Trump's presidency after choosing to not heed the President's directive to fire Robert Mueller or to tell the deputy attorney general to fire Mueller.
Donald Trump has lamented that no one on the White House legal team is his kind of lawyer: a bulldog who will protect him. Over the past two years, he’s said he wanted lawyers who will safeguard his interests the way he believes John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert did as attorney general. “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” he reportedly asked once, referencing the notorious lawyer he worked with earlier in his career.
Don McGahn is nothing like Cohn. As White House counsel, he regularly frustrated Trump by pushing back on his ideas, in some cases flatly refusing to carry out orders, according to the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But as much as they displeased the president, McGahn’s efforts may have saved Trump from his worst enemy: himself.
Mueller’s report details how McGahn kept Trump from making potentially catastrophic decisions on how to respond to the investigation. McGahn defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the probe, stage-managed the firing of FBI Director James Comey, declined to order Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller — twice — and refused to lie to reporters about the firing attempts. Trump has not emerged unscathed from the Mueller investigation, but the fact that he has so far avoided some of the worst-case scenarios is in large part a testament to McGahn.
McGahn’s decisions during the Mueller probe are just one reason why he is likely to be viewed in hindsight as one of the pivotal players of Trump’s first term. The former White House counsel, who left the administration last fall, also successfully shepherded two conservative judges onto the Supreme Court as well as scores of lower court judges, helping to reshape the direction of the nation’s judiciary. And he was one of the primary architects of the administration’s push to slash a wide range of federal regulations.
The fact that McGahn’s recollections are in the Mueller report in such great detail is remarkable on its own. It is unusual for a lawyer to share so openly with investigators probing his client. (The New York Times reported in 2018 that McGahn was interviewed by Mueller’s team for more than 30 hours.) And the White House chose not to try to redact any of his testimony by asserting executive privilege. His interviews reveal numerous high-stakes battles with the President behind the scenes.
On March 3, 2017, Trump called McGahn into the Oval Office after Sessions had recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation. The President blamed McGahn, and he “wanted McGahn to talk to Sessions about the recusal,” according to the report. But the lawyer resisted, arguing that the Justice Department found the recusal was proper. “McGahn told the President that DOJ ethics officials had weighed in on Sessions’s decision to recuse,” the report says. Trump was so angry that he “screamed at McGahn,” according to former White House strategist Steve Bannon, who was present at the meeting.
That wasn’t the only time McGahn was chewed out by his boss for offering sound advice. Just one month later, on April 11, 2017, Trump admitted to McGahn that he had twice asked the FBI director to publicly announce that Trump wasn’t under investigation. “The President acknowledged that McGahn would not approve of the outreach to Comey,” the report states, “because McGahn had previously cautioned the President that he should not talk to Comey directly to prevent any perception that the White House was interfering with investigations.”RELATED: Muellermas Hangover: Giuliani Attacks McGahn Testimony For Some Reason
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 4/7/19
Court Ruling Implies That Barr Must Redact Grand-Jury Info from Mueller Report
Can’t Any Democrat Here Play This Game?
Over Parent Objections, Public School Teaches 6-Year-Olds About ‘Transgender Ravens’ And Gender Fluidity
Trump The Madman Somehow Tricked A Bunch Of Democrats Into Defending MS-13 Thugs (Again)
Even Obama Admits What We Already Knew About The Democratic Party
Giuliani Not Worried About Full Mueller Report
Dan Rather & Co. Rerun Fake News on Trump's Immigrants-as-'Animals' Quote
Bernie Sanders Joins The Democrats Bending A Knee To Al Sharpton
Former Auburn Coach Announces U.S. Senate Bid Against Doug Jones
US anti-abortion film a surprise box office success
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Michael Cohen Subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence Committee
It's about time the Senate used its power to investigate matters concerning the Russia probe.
RELATED: Michael Cohen's lawyer accuses Rudy Giuliani of 'witness tampering,' calls him 'unhinged'
Thursday, December 27, 2018
The Worst of MSNBC in 2018
Well, at least MSNBC doesn't pretend to be objective, like CNN does.
RELATED: The most memorable political gaffes of 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 12/16/18
Trump will likely win reelection in 2020
Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drives conservatives crazy
Gillibrand: Say, There Are A Lot Of White Men Running For President, Aren’t There?
The Obamacare Ruling
Sorry, but hush-money payments won’t send Trump to prison
DOJ Destroyed Missing Strzok/Page Text Messages Before The IG Could Review Them
Why Puberty Blockers Are A Clear Danger To Children’s Health
How Never-Trumpers Have Become Unhinged
The Perfectly Legal Corruption No One Cares About
Report: 70,000 Gang Members Across State of Georgia Include Children, Correctional Officers
Fox's Laura Ingraham Mocks Media's Strange New Respect for Michael Cohen
NY Times Blames ‘Hard-Line Immigration Enforcement’ for Migrant Girl’s Death
Giuliani: 'Over My Dead Body' Will Mueller Interview Trump
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 7/29/18
In a divided U.S., therapists treating anxiety are hearing the same name over and over: Donald Trump
Understanding Trade Deficits
Touring North Korean Farms and Factories, Kim Jong Un Signals a Shift
Democrats Embracing Crazy Could Be A Gift To The GOP
Mad Maxine: I've Been Sent By God To Get Trump. Also, Rage In The Streets
Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Immigration
Giuliani: 180 tapes seized from Cohen but Trump only speaks on one
McConnell praises postponing Putin, says wall funding will wait
Media Gaslighting Can’t Hide Fact Trump Campaign Was Spied On
Most Americans Don’t Care About Russia, And That’s A Sign Of Our Country’s Strength
Why didn't FBI tell court about Christopher Steele bias?
How Hillary Clinton used the anti-Trump Russia dossier during the campaign
Friday, July 20, 2018
President Trump’s Former Attorney Michael Cohen Has Audio of Trump Discussing Payoff to Playboy Model
The idea that Cohen is talking to the likes of Al Sharpton is what really worries me.
RELATED: Unless Giuliani is Lying, This Michael Cohen Story Appears to be No Big Deal (On It’s Own)
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 7/8/18
7 Reasons It Is Deeply Misleading To Claim Americans Support Roe v. Wade
Trump Loses My Vote If He Nominates A Justice Weak On Religious Liberty
Red-state Democrats face 'terrible' bind on Supreme Court pick
Against Packing the Courts
Liberal Outrage Is All The Rage
The War Is Over: Mulvaney No Longer Has This Headache At The CFPB
Giuliani: 'No Concerns' About Cohen's Cooperation With Feds
The Supreme Court Needs A Justice With Amul Thapar's Experience And Middle America Common Sense
CNN: ‘Never’ Has There Been a ‘Love Story’ Like Trump and Fox News
It Would Be A Huge Mistake To Push To Overturn Roe V. Wade, Says … Tomi Lahren
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 5/6/18
Liberals Upset That License Plate Readers Are Used To Find Illegal Aliens
‘Heartbeat Bill’ Signed Into Law In Iowa, South Carolina Takes A Pass
NY Governor Moves To Protect Unions From SCOTUS Decision
Rosie O'Donnell's Campaign Donations Went Above the Legal Limit, But Does Anybody Care?
Liberalism Must Be Destroyed
Rudy Giuliani Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
Google’s Insane Campus Is What Happens When You Politicize Everything
Ted Cruz’s Four Ways to Work Around a Filibuster
Stelter Declares Day 470 of White House ‘Credibility Crisis’, Dismisses Media’s
CNN: Melania to Reveal Agenda Goals on Children's Issues
Romney and the Deep State
National Religious Broadcasters Chief Calls on Facebook to Stop Targeting Conservatives
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