{"id":43607,"date":"2019-12-29T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43607"},"modified":"2019-12-29T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T22:51:56","slug":"even-lindsey-graham-is-leery-of-trump-shill-rudy-giulianis-russian-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43607","title":{"rendered":"Even Lindsey Graham is Spooked By Trump Shill Rudy Giuliani’s Russian Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has recently been gallivanting around the globe in an effort to dig up dirt on a potential Trump election opponent, Joe Biden. In a normal world (remember that?), that’s not the job of a lawyer who is supposedly defending Trump on charges related to his impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.<\/p>\n

\"Lindsey
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Then again, Giuliani is bumbling his way through criminal allegations of his own and threatening to sue Fox News<\/a><\/strong>, so perhaps he doesn’t have sufficient time to devote to his Client-in-Chief.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that neither Giuliani, nor Trump’s apologists in politics or the press, have bothered to address the substance of the charges against him. They are all attacking the process or pointing fingers at people who have nothing to do with why Trump was impeached. And much of their focus has been on preposterous and thoroughly debunked conspiracy theories<\/a><\/strong> concocted by Russian operatives. Consequently, when Giuliani returned to Washington, he wasn’t exactly greeted with open arms. According to the Daily Beast<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“In the weeks leading up to their impeachment trial, senators on Capitol Hill are actively avoiding meeting with President Donald Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani \u2014 partly because they fear he might try to pass off Russian conspiracy theories as fact, according to interviews with more than half a dozen Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides. […] various lawmakers, as well as administration officials and national security brass, have privately expressed concerns about Giuliani’s latest Ukraine jaunt, given that the Trump lawyer’s efforts are what helped create this Ukraine scandal and get the president impeached in the first place.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, Giuliani may have been the acorn that grew into the mighty oak of Trump’s criminality. At the very least, Giuliani was watering the seedling every time he appeared on Fox News making statements that further incriminated Trump. The Daily Beast interviewed several Senate sources from both parties who indicated an aversion to dealing with Giuliani, whose credibility they said was suspect. Even White House sources were reticent to deal with Giuliani for fear of being caught up in his crackpot schemes. But surprisingly, one of Trump’s most devoted fluffers, Lindsey Graham, is also putting distance between himself and Trump’s lawyer:<\/p>\n

“My advice to Giuliani would be to share what he got from Ukraine with the IC [intelligence community] to make sure it\u2019s not Russia propaganda. I\u2019m very suspicious of what the Russians are up to all over the world.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. Trump’s sentinel in the Senate can’t be sure whether Trump’s attorney is a Russian asset. If Graham doesn’t trust Giuliani, then why should anyone else? Particularly those in the media who keep inviting him on to disseminate the propaganda of hostile foreign adversaries. There appears to be a consensus that Giuliani is – as John Bolton said<\/a><\/strong> – “a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up.”<\/em> And yet, Trump himself is totally reliant on Giuliani and his unique brand of lunacy. It must true what they say about birds of feather.<\/p>\n

\n

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has recently been gallivanting around the globe in an effort to dig up dirt on a potential Trump election opponent, Joe Biden. 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