Rudy got it out there, didn't he?
by digby
This Giuliani mess has gotten even more ridiculous:
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, said Friday on "Fox News @ Night" that he will not be traveling to Ukraine as previously announced.
Giuliani, a former Republican mayor of New York City, said that he believed he would be "walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president, and in some cases, enemies of the United States and in one case, an already convicted person who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 investigation.
"There was a great fear that the new [Ukrainian] president would be surrounded by, literally, enemies of the president [of the United States] who were involved in that and people who are involved with other Democratic operatives," he told host Shannon Bream.
"I'm convinced from what I've heard from two very reliable people tonight that the president [Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky] is surrounded by people who are enemies of the president [Trump], and people who are -- at least [in] one case -- clearly corrupt and involved in this scheme," Giuliani said.
That's absurd, of course. It was his plan, not some set-up. No matter what, they have to paint themselves as victims.
But Rudy didn't really have to go on that trip, did he? All they had to do was make it clear what the most powerful man in the world wants done, which Rudy managed to do in flamboyant style. The new Ukrainian president now understands very well how to curry favor with Trump and will make his decisions with that in mind. And the bogus Biden Ukraine story got more oxygen with the Democrats and others in the press amplifying the New York Times' stories that have been fed to them by GOP operatives Peter Schweitzer and Giuliani himself.
Rudy got the job done.
Like Bill Barr and countless others, Giuliani regularly throws himself into the lion's den in service of Trump's conspiracy theories. He seems to relish it.
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