This isn't Rudy's first time at the election sabotage rodeo

This isn't Rudy's first time at the election sabotage rodeo

by digby

It seems like a good day to remind everyone of Giuiani's earlier electoral interference. It's not as if he's a neophyte. I wrote this on the Friday before the election in 2016:

Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he knew the FBI planned to review more emails tied to Hillary Clinton before a public announcement about the investigation last week, confirming that the agency leaked information to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.  


WATCH: Rudy Giuliani admits that Trump campaign had advanced warning from the @FBI about Comey's letter.


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“I did nothing to get it out, I had no role in it,” he said. “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it, and I can’t even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents.”  
Giuliani also said he expected Comey’s announcement to come weeks before it did.  
“I had expected this for the last, honestly, to tell you the truth, I thought it was going to be about three or four weeks ago, because way back in July this started, they kept getting stymied looking for subpoenas, looking for records,” he said.  
FBI officials knew about the newly discovered emails weeks before Comey’s announcement, according to multiple reports. 
Giuliani insisted he had nothing to do with Comey’s decision to announce the probe prior to Election Day ― a move that both Republicans and Democrats have condemned. He also insisted his information comes from “former FBI agents.”  
“I’m real careful not to talk to any on-duty, active FBI agents. I don’t want to put them in a compromising position. But I sure have a lot of friends who are retired FBI agents, close, personal friends,” he said. “All I heard were former FBI agents telling me that there’s a revolution going on inside the FBI and it’s now at a boiling point.”

If you like the idea that federal government employees are choosing your president for you, you're going to love living in Donald Trump's America. Just be sure to salute smartly when you see one at your door.
Say hi to Attorney General William Barr.

Someday it would be really, really nice to know whatever happened to the investigation that was started to look into this little episode. It changed the world.

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