Rudy Giuliani Admits Lying About Hillary Clinton's Emails In 2016

[riversedge]

As is suggested, Rudy should LOSE his law license for this. Right now, it is only suspended






8/05/21 2:21pm
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Rudy Giuliani Admits Lying About Hillary Clinton's Emails In 2016


https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/rudy-giuliani-admits-lying-about-hillary
This is when Giuliani began his run as the presidential ratf**ker.


By John Amato


Rudy Giuliani gave a voluntary interview to the Department of Justice's Inspector General and admitted that in October 2016, a few days before the presidential election took place, he lied and said he heard rumors from his FBI friends about an active investigation against Hillary Clinton.

"I think he’s got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises,” Giuliani said.

This was unceremoniously repeated around Facebook, Twitter, and famously on Fox News over and over again.

As The Daily Beast reports two days later idiot FBI director James Comey informed Republican House leaders he reopened an inquiry into whether Hillary Clinton had mishandled classified information.

This turned out to be the turning point of the 2016 election, flipping it to Traitor Trump. The country is still trying to recover from his four-year reign of incompetence.
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Giuliani previously went on ABC and Fox News and claimed that Hillary Clinton was very ill with no proof except to say he saw it on Google. He used more than whisper campaigns to smear the Democratic challenger for the presidency..........................................................

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[malaise]

1. ReTHUGs have been lying to Congress without suffering the consequences for so long

that they continue to do so.

It is time to lock them the fuck up. Further anyone who refuses to obey the coming subpoenas must be arrested.

Get thee to the greatest page.

[area51]

13. +1 n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Agreed. They have been coddled far too long. Get pissed Dems. Enough BS and lies. nt

[ananda]

21. QFE: "Lock them the fuck up"!!!

!!!

[PJMcK]

2. This line from the article jumped out

"The country is still trying to recover from his four-year reign of incompetence."

"...still trying..."? WTF

It's barely been 6 months since President Biden took office. The damages that Trump inflicted will take years to correct. What is this article's writer thinking?

[betsuni]

3. +1

[FalloutShelter]

4. Exactly.

I call this the New Jersification of national politics. Since I was a young voter in NJ, I've seen Republican governors crash and burn and Democrats then elected to dig out, then the ratfucking begins...the drumbeat from the press and the Republicans, that nothing is being fixed quickly enough. The Democrat is then swept out, the Republicans crash the plane again... rinse ...repeat.

Now we see this play out on a national level.

Ultimately this is on the voters who do not understand the magnitude of the damage, demanding unrealistic timelines for fixes and punishing the politicians that WANT to fix the problems when their unrealistic expectations are not met. I also blame the media for their bothsiderism and constant carping on those unrealistic expectations.

Here's where Joe can break the cycle. The voters get angry because they do not get the deliverables they want quickly enough. That's where the Republicans find their pay dirt by dragging the process down and causing the Democrats to fail. Like it or not, this is where bitartisanism and learning to take the half loaf may pay off. I say may... because the divide in this country has become so deep and so vituperous that I fear no one can fix this.

[Lonestarblue]

6. Many Republican voters don't want fixes to the nation's problems.

They want fixes to THEIR problems—mainly that LGBTQ are allowed to exist and have rights, women are allowed to have abortions instead of being punished for an unwanted pregnancy, minorities are allowed to have jobs that white people reserve for themselves and they’re allowed to live in white neighborhoods where their kids can go to school with those pure white children, making sure they’re allowed to have as many guns as possible (even if they’re criminals) and carry them publicly as a threat to other people, and promising that the US will become a Christian nation with the Bible as law. And they’re perfectly fine with rigging elections and using violence to elect Republicans who will pass ever more draconian laws to try to take away the rights of the people they don’t like.

Climate change, infrastructure, cyber security, foreign policy—none of that matters to the Republican voters who still support Trump and the Big Lie. Sadly, that’s probably less than the 74 million who voted for him, but still far too many who vote for lies rather than reality.

[mountain grammy]

9. Well said and all true.

[FalloutShelter]

11. I agree to a certain extent... but...

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Those are a subset of the R party. EVERYONE likes deliverables. Problem is they have not been getting ANY. Now they are and they will like them... and they will come along. It will not happen overnight and may not happen enough in a 2-4year span. THAT is the problem. That is where the backlash comes in.

[wnylib]

19. Also, the Republicans are very visibly obstructing

the deliverables now. It might help in 2022 midterms to point out over and over that Republicans are standing in the way of the improvements that the people want. As delta spreads through red states and regions it is more obvious that Republican anti pandemic measures are causing it.

[Javaman]

24. pretty much sums up what I have always said about repukes...

something is only a problem when it effects them directly, everyone can fuck off.

[rurallib]

14. 12 years out from Bush and we are still dealing with his f-ups

And Bush was minor league compared to Trump.

[msfiddlestix]

5. I can't find WHEN he confesses to the DOJ that he was lying...

When did this interview with the DOJ take place, when was it revealed to the public, and who is the source?

Is this being mentioned on cable news and is it being reported as "Breaking News" ?

[Effete Snob]

10. In context, it's a different story

Pages 9 and 10 of this report:

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-104.pdf

I believe it is more likely that the actual lie is the so-called admission that he lied.

In other words, during the investigation of whether Rudy was provided with inside information ahead of the October 2016 Comey announcement, Rudy said he had no such inside information.

To believe this “admission”, you must also believe that Rudy is a remarkably good guesser.

In the search for a catchy headline, the Daily Beast missed the actual story here, which is much more serious.

This may also relate to the recent search of Giuliano’s effects.

[msfiddlestix]

26. thanks so much for clarifying.

I rely on op titles to reflect on the pertinent subject.

it used to be a thing here....

[Effete Snob]

27. Amazing isn't it, though?

The real story here is the incredible statement to the OIG that he had no advance knowledge that certain NY FBI/DoJ folks were going to try to pull a fast one before the election.

Obviously, the lie would be "No, I was just going on rumors and guesses."

The entire "Giuliani admits lying to the media" thing is really "Giuliani probably lying to the OIG to protect his and other's asses" since there is no penalty for lying to the media.

But, look at the other reactions in this thread. Sigh.

[msfiddlestix]

28. exactly. frustrating.

I'm seeing quite a number of old stories, seriously outdated-common knowledge reporting as the story was about something that just happened or was just revealed for the first time ever, and that is another bit that I find frustrating.

I'm thinking, wow another slow news day I guess.


or an OP that nails the story, but with long thread of comments which are in no way related to the OP!

just gotta laugh it off....

[mountain grammy]

7. the media crowned him "America's Mayor"

now he's America's shame, but will the media ever come clean?

[durablend]

8. Can't we just shorten it

To "Rudy Giuliani Admits Lying"

[Effete Snob]

12. So, we are supposed to believe he simply guessed that Comey would make that announcement?

I believe it is more likely he lied to the OIG investigators.

The full context is clearer here:

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-104.pdf

[PatSeg]

15. We see once again

With republican politicians, they are primarily performance with no actual substance. Lying or exaggerating is okay when the objective is winning.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. "Lying or exaggerating is okay when the objective is winning. " And therein lies the problem. nt

[PatSeg]

18. And they really don't see anything wrong with it

well, unless the other side does it. Some people go into politics to serve, to make a difference, others crave power and believe winning is everything. It becomes a mindset that obscures everything else. Then they are often surprised when they get caught and held accountable, because they were just trying to win like it is warfare.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. Yes I think McConnell personifies it in the "normal" sense, and TFG in the dicktator sense; my rules

[PatSeg]

35. Yeah, different degrees of the same condition

[Evolve Dammit]

37. with a side of dis-associated self-interest and total lack of caring for America. nt

[lindysalsagal]

20. The truth always comes out, eventually. HRC knew that.

Vindication!

[Firestorm49]

22. Oh no, Toto, tell me it isn't true. 🤪

[AllaN01Bear]

23. i feel that this big mouth neeeds to appologize to hillary and on his knees.

these types feel ITS OK TO STEAL FROM THE USA GOVT.( my experiance w 1) these folk love to sputter sputt sputt , distract and lie . hide behind the flag .im more patriotic than you( personal experiance , called a communist pinko pig my my rop instructor in hs. i wear that badge proudly thank you.) hide behind the constitution . the bible and when cornered , they come out swinging.
rr did so much damage to this country as well.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Who is surprised by this?

[twodogsbarking]

31. Surprised he lied. No

Surprised he admitted it. No.

[Hassler]

29. He can always get work as a pitchman for a landscaping company.

[bluestarone]

30. I'd say he should be assigned to

HARD LABOR, busting rocks for landscaping companies in EVERY STATE!

[jmowreader]

36. I'd rather the son of a bitch get work as a wheelbarrow pusher for a landscaping company

Or, alternately, as a roadway trash collector on a sheriff's work crew.

[Champp]

32. Republican liars are poison for America's democracy

The whole lot of them are fugging liars. Shameful.

[Drunken Irishman]

34. Rudy knew Comey was going to reopen the email investigation.

So, that isn't the lie. I have no doubt some of his friends in the courts up in New York tipped him off to the fact the FBI had found possible new emails on Weiner's laptop and that they would be announcing this.

So is the lie here that he said he was making it up to protect himself or what?

But it's far too big of a coincidence that he said what he said days before the Comey Letter dropped. He absolutely knew.