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Rudy Giuliani
mueller time
July 24, 2019
Watch Giuliani Call Mueller an ‘Idiot,’ Nearly Swear on Fox News
Highlights from an especially unhinged Giuliani, sporting a new hair color on the occasion of the Mueller testimony.
By
Matt Stieb
rudy giuliani
May 28, 2019
Trump Advisers: Rudy Giuliani Is Great, But Also Nuts
The loyal Trump attack dog may be a headache, but he’s their headache.
By
Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
May 10, 2019
Trump Is Pressuring Ukraine to Smear Clinton and Biden
Rudy Giuliani: “There’s nothing illegal about it. Somebody could say it’s improper.” Well, yes.
By
Jonathan Chait
mueller time
May 7, 2019
White House Blocks Release of McGahn Documents Sought by Congress
As prelude to a claim of executive privilege and then litigation, the White House has extended its stonewalling of Congress to McGahn’s testimony.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
May 7, 2019
Everything We Know About the Joe Biden–Ukraine Controversy
Here’s why you’ll be hearing President Trump and his allies talk about Hunter Biden, the former VP’s son, a lot in the coming months.
By
Adam K. Raymond
vision 2020
May 1, 2019
Get Ready for a Biden Swoon, Sooner or Later
Candidates who poll as well as Biden is right now often go on to win — but rarely without encountering serious bumps in the road.
By
Ed Kilgore
politics
Apr. 21, 2019
Giuliani: ‘Nothing Wrong’ With Accepting a Hostile Government’s Election Help
You don’t get to be Trump’s lawyer unless you have a well-defined sense of immorality.
By
Chas Danner
the national interest
Mar. 13, 2019
Michael Cohen Has Email Showing Trump Obstructed Justice by Dangling Pardon
Even Trump’s attorney general admitted that would be a crime.
By
Jonathan Chait
russia investigation
Mar. 6, 2019
Giuliani Preps His Defense Against the Mueller Report: ‘Nothing Ever Happened’
Among the gems in Trump’s lawyers’ reported 80-page counter of the Mueller report: contacts with Russia aren’t serious as they “never went anywhere.”
By
Matt Stieb
the city
Feb. 21, 2019
New NYCHA Monitor’s Strange Political Bedfellows
Federal officials’ pick to oversee public housing has links to Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani — and controversial activist Lenora Fulani.
By
Greg B. Smith
politics
Jan. 23, 2019
Trump Reportedly ‘Furious’ Over Rudy Giuliani’s Recent Media Flops
A White House aide told
Politico
that “handling Rudy’s f**k ups takes more than one man.”
By
Matt Stieb
the national interest
Jan. 22, 2019
Rudy Giuliani Is Possibly a Legal Genius, But Probably Just an Idiot
The middle ground is disappearing. Rudy’s either Keyser Soze or Barry Zuzkerkorn.
By
Jonathan Chait
russia investigation
Jan. 21, 2019
Giuliani: Trump’s Moscow Tower Planning May Have Continued Through the Election
Trump’s lawyer has now tried to take back his comments, which also indicated that Trump may have talked to Cohen before his Congressional testimony.
By
Chas Danner
the national interest
Jan. 16, 2019
Trump Lawyer No Longer Denying Campaign Colluded With Russia
RIP, “No collusion.”
By
Jonathan Chait
russia investigation
Dec. 19, 2018
CNN: Trump Signed a Letter of Intent to Build Trump Tower Moscow
On Sunday, Rudy Giuliani said “no one signed” the letter.
By
Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
Dec. 17, 2018
Giuliani Almost Admits Trump Colluded and Committed a Crime
Rudy gives an extremely revealing answer to George Stephanopoulos.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 6, 2018
Giuliani: The Dog Ate My Counter-Report to Mueller
Giuliani promised a devastating response to Mueller. A timeline of his “progress.”
By
Jonathan Chait
rudy giuliani
Dec. 5, 2018
Rudy Giuliani Doesn’t Seem to Know How the Internet Works
Did Twitter allow someone to “invade” Giuliani’s tweet? No.
By
Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
Nov. 30, 2018
Trump Lied About His Very Legal and Very Cool Russia Deals for No Reason
It’s possible some of his other claims are also false.
By
Jonathan Chait
the law
Sept. 14, 2018
What Would a Joint Defense Agreement Between Manafort and Trump Mean?
Unpacking the implications of an arrangement Rudy Giuliani seemed to tease.
By
Cristian Farias
couples
Aug. 31, 2018
Judith Giuliani on the Rudy She Married, and the Rudy She’s Divorcing
How she diagnoses her ex’s new “dissembling” condition.
By
Tish Durkin
the national interest
Aug. 21, 2018
Rudy: Trump Not Implicated by Crime He Definitely Committed
Cohen only admitted to helping “Individual 1,” a mystery man he represented as a lawyer, and then who became president of the United States.
By
Jonathan Chait
rudy giuliani
Aug. 20, 2018
Rudy Giuliani Clarifies That He Didn’t Mean to Go Full Orwell
He didn’t say what you think he said, he says.
By
Benjamin Hart
russia investigation
Aug. 20, 2018
Lawyers’ Loud Steakhouse Chatter May Be Root of Trump’s McGahn Problem
McGahn decided he had to protect himself after a reporter overheard Trump’s attorneys gossiping about him at a D.C. restaurant last fall.
By
Margaret Hartmann
john brennan
Aug. 19, 2018
Bolton, Giuliani Attack John Brennan as Unprincipled Lover of Islam
A nice, meaty, Sunday-afternoon stew of hypocrisy and prejudice.
By
Benjamin Hart
rudy giuliani
Aug. 19, 2018
Giuliani Goes Full Orwell: ‘Truth Is Not Truth’
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Trump is innocent.
By
Benjamin Hart
the national interest
Aug. 9, 2018
Trump’s ‘Perjury Trap’: Confessing to Obstruction of Justice or Lying About It
The president’s lawyers don’t want their client to answer questions about his obvious crime.
By
Jonathan Chait
Aug. 7, 2018
Rudy Giuliani Accidentally Invites Twitter to ‘Hate Me’
Though Trump is said to be losing patience, Giuliani couldn’t keep himself from churning out silly gaffes and contradictory explanations.
By
Margaret Hartmann
politics
Aug. 4, 2018
Trump Believes Giuliani’s Claim That Mueller Has Nothing on Him: Report
Rudy Giuliani’s PR blitz in defense of President Trump is apparently working — on President Trump.
By
Chas Danner
the national interest
July 30, 2018
Rudy: Trump Is Innocent Because He Did Not Personally Hack Democratic Emails
Watch the goalposts retreat over the horizon.
By
Jonathan Chait
July 7, 2018
Giuliani: Trump Won’t Sit Down for Mueller Interview Without a Fight
Lawyers for the president want to make things difficult for the special counsel as they wage a war of public opinion.
By
Benjamin Hart
June 15, 2018
Giuliani: Trump Might Need to ‘Clean Up’ Mueller Probe With Pardons
Hours after Paul Manafort went to jail — and reports that Michael Cohen might flip went public — Trump’s lawyer suggests loyalty will be rewarded.
By
Eric Levitz
June 15, 2018
Republicans Want to Shut Mueller Down Over IG Report That Isn’t Even About Him
FBI bias
didn’t
affect the Clinton probe … so according to Giuliani and other Trump allies, Mueller must be “suspended” immediately.
By
Margaret Hartmann
new york beginnings
June 14, 2018
Not That Long Ago, New York Really Was Governed From a Smoke-filled Backroom
As late as 1989, an undemocratic entity called the Board of Estimate made the city’s key decisions. When it was banned, a new political era was born.
By
David Freedlander
taxonomy
June 13, 2018
What 22 Trump Staffers Looked Like in High School
Who would have thought they’d one day work for the 45th president of the United States?
By
Nick Tabor
and
James D. Walsh
the national interest
June 4, 2018
Why Congress Wouldn’t Impeach Trump for Shooting James Comey
“If he shot James Comey, he’d be impeached the next day,” Giuliani said. But would he?
By
Jonathan Chait
June 4, 2018
Giuliani’s New Tactic: Arguing Trump Can Literally Get Away With Murder
Once you’ve entertained the possibility that Trump couldn’t be indicted if he “shot James Comey,” what’s a little obstruction of justice?
By
Margaret Hartmann
June 3, 2018
Giuliani’s Three Most Guilty-Sounding Statements From Sunday Morning
Among other things, he said that President Trump could pardon himself if he feels like it.
By
Benjamin Hart
May 30, 2018
Giuliani on Yankees Fans: ‘They Boo You When They Love You’
Giuliani on Yankees fans: “They boo you when they love you.” Yankees fans on Rudy Giuliani: “Screw that guy.”
By
Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
May 29, 2018
President Trump Is Taking Control of the Mueller Probe in Slices
How “salami tactics” are relentlessly whittling down the independence of the Justice Department and the rule of law.
By
Jonathan Chait
russia investigation
May 27, 2018
Giuliani Admits ‘Spygate’ Is PR in Anticipation of Impeachment
Trump’s newest lawyer now says that the Mueller investigation is illegitimate, while also calling the legitimacy of such criticism into question.
By
Chas Danner
the national interest
May 23, 2018
Rudy: Trump Might Commit Perjury Because ‘Truth Is Relative’
Trump’s legal defense turns postmodern.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 18, 2018
Giuliani Invents Brilliant Maneuver to Deflect Incriminating Video Clip
Why sit there like a sucker and watch a reporter prove you’re a hypocrite?
By
Jonathan Chait
May 18, 2018
Bannon Is Still Advising Trump Allies on Their War With Mueller
Trump seemed to reject the half-baked plan Bannon was pushing a month ago, and he may not know that his confidants are talking with his ex-strategist.
By
Margaret Hartmann
May 12, 2018
Giuliani Opens His Mouth Again, Says Trump Denied AT&T-Time Warner Merger
Will he casually admit to the veracity of the pee tape next?
By
Benjamin Hart
the national interest
May 10, 2018
Giuliani’s Law Firm Explains Law Doesn’t Work the Way Giuliani Says
Now it’s his
ex–
law firm.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national circus
May 9, 2018
Following the Money in Trumpland Leads Ugly Places
Michael Avenatti is doing what Woodward and Bernstein did — and revealing unvarnished bribery and collusion.
By
Frank Rich
May 8, 2018
Trump Worried Aging, Loudmouth New Yorker Can’t Stay on Message
Trump is starting to wonder if a narcissistic New York celebrity can be trusted with a job as vital as lawyer to the president of the United States.
By
Eric Levitz
May 6, 2018
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump May Take the Fifth
And other highlights from another eventful interview.
By
Benjamin Hart
May 4, 2018
Giuliani Walks Back Confusing Comments on Trump, Comey — Creates More Confusion
Trump’s new lead lawyer tried to undo some of the damage he did to his client in earlier comments, but left a lot of questions unresolved.
By
Ed Kilgore
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