RUDY GIULIANI
In an interview with The Hill last night, Rudy Giuliani, who has served as Donald Trump’s legal court jester—and provided many of us with a lot of good laughs during his, uh, public relations work on behalf of #TheWorstPresidentEver—during much of the time that Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of All-Star prosecutors/investigators have been probing the Trump campaign and its myriad relationships with Russia, said this about any potential final report the Special Counsel’s office might file with the Justice Department:
“As a matter of fairness, they should show it to you – so we can correct it if they’re wrong.”
In other words, Giuliani is suggesting that he and the Trump Team should have access to the Special Counsel’s report before it is submitted to anyone so that he and his teammates can have the opportunity to edit out information that is either incriminating to the president and/or members of his family or less than flattering to the same. He thinks it “a matter of fairness” that they be able to, well, “correct” the record.
Here’s a suggestion for Rudy: You don’t get to “correct” the record. You can and no doubt will use a weaponized right-wing media to rebut the record. But you might want to make sure you’ve got your facts in order before you put your rebuttal out there. Robert Mueller’s career “body of work” attests to his concern for evidentiary facts and conclusions drawn only on evidentiary facts. Yours? Not so much.
Here’s another suggestion for Rudy: You don’t want to stand next to Robert Mueller—a true American hero—and ask the American people to vote on which of the two of you engenders the most trust. Another way to say it? If you’re looking for a fight with Robert Mueller as to who has more personal character, you probably don’t want to put the gloves on—he’s way out of your league.
Oh, one final suggestion for Rudy: Lose that diamond-encrusted pinky ring.