Did you ask the Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden?
No, actually I didn’t.
I asked the Ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election
of 2016 by the Ukrainians for the benefit of Hillary Clinton, for which there already
is— You never asked anything about Hunter Biden?
You never asked anything about Joe Biden?
The only thing I ever asked about Joe Biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that
Lutsenko who was appointed dismissed a case against--
So you did ask the Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?
Of course I did!
You just said you didn’t!
No, I didn’t ask them to look into Joe Biden.
I asked them to look into the allegations that were related to my client which tangentially
involved Joe Biden in a massive bribery scandal-- Rudy—
Not unlike what he did in China!
Rudy— You explain to me how the kid got $1.5 billion
from China when Joe Biden was still— Rudy, I have no problem with you launching
allegations but just be careful about what you say.
I asked you did you ask Ukraine to look at Joe Biden.
You said no.
Then you went on to say that you did.
It’s all recorded.
No I didn’t say that!
I don’t like this evasiveness.
The evasiveness I don’t like.
You’re gonna distort what I’m saying because you’re totally biased.
I am not biased.
You are, Chris.
It’s sad.
Why would I have you on if I were biased knowing that we’re gonna have this kind of conversation?
Because it is sad to watch what has happened to you.
It’s sad!
Sad to watch what was happened to me?
You’re a sellout.
I’M a sellout?
You’re a sellout!
You are telling me that I’m a sellout?
These are crimes of major proportions, and because they’re Democrats, you won’t cover
it.
A $1.5 million investment by China in Biden’s private equity fund and the partners are—
I’m not saying that these types of things shouldn’t be looked at--
And Whitey Bulger’s nephew.
Do you know they were partners with Whitey Bulger’s nephew?
Rudy, I’m not saying that anything you’re saying—
That’s outrageous!
And your corrupt media won’t cover it because he’s a Democrat!
Rudy, I can’t just cover something because you say I should.
All right?
That’s not the way it works— No, you don’t have to say I should--
But I gotta tell you— Read the book!
You, who my whole lifetime stood up for one simple idea when you were at your best, which
is character counts and leadership— And you are standing up for two systems of
justice!
Oh I’M standing up for two systems of justice?
Joe Biden can be involved in bribery.
Joe Biden’s son can get $1.5 billion from China and won’t cover it!
And you want to cover some ridiculous charge that I urged the Ukrainian government to investigate
corruption.
Well I did!
And I’m proud of it!
There are bad days on TV, and then there are meltdowns, and then there’s whatever just
happened to Rudy Giuliani.
Because whatever it was, it absolutely wasn’t good for the White House.
Now, aside from the fact that Giuliani can’t help but lie so effortlessly that he contradicts
himself multiple times within the same sentence, there seems to be a pretty massive scandal
that the former mayor of New York just landed himself right in the middle of.
Now, there are a few moving parts here, they all seem to be interconnected, and they bode
really poorly for Trump.
First, we know that there exists a whistleblower complaint made by an intelligence official,
that involves communications with a foreign leader and a “promise” that Trump made.
And this complaint was allegedly so alarming that this whistleblower brought it to the
inspector general of the intelligence community.
And the inspector general himself, Michael Atkinson, a TRUMP APPOINTEE, agreed that it
did in fact meet the statutory definition of an urgent concern.
But whereas a complaint of that nature would normally fall under the Director of National
Intelligence’s purview and would therefore be shared with Congress, Trump’s acting
Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire and Trump’s Department of Justice decided
that it didn’t meet the criteria, meaning it WOULDN’T be shared with Congress.
How convenient.
Now, I should mention, too, that just two and a half weeks before the complaint was
filed, Trump had a phone call with Ukraine’s new president.
Which brings us to Ukraine, where just last month, the Trump administration had suddenly
decided to withhold $250 million in military assistance, which were necessary in the midst
of Russian aggression in the region.
Now, the White House gave no legitimate justification for withholding the funds, saying only that
they were reviewing the expenditure to ensure the money was being used in the best interest
of the United States.
But you might remember that Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed part of its sovereign
territory, so that seems like a …pretty adequate justification to continue giving
them military assistance.
And it was only when the decision to withhold aid started garnering media attention that,
on September 12th, the Trump administration suddenly reversed course and reinstated Ukraine’s
military assistance.
And finally, the last step, which is, as Giuliani admitted on national television, that he went
to Ukraine to urge the country to investigate Joe Biden.
He claims that Biden played a role in the government’s dismissal of a prosecutor who
had investigated a natural gas company connected to his son, Hunter Biden.
Only, there were a spate of other western nations that also called for the prosecutor’s
dismissal and there’s no evidence of any wrongdoing by Biden.
But it just so happens that Joe Biden, as the current frontrunner for the Democratic
nomination, is Trump’s biggest threat to re-election in 2020.
So it would certainly benefit this administration if, all of a sudden, the person who - at least
at this point in time seems most likely to face off against Trump in 2020 - was mired
in an international corruption scandal.
Now look, I’m not saying that the whistleblower complaint is about Trump withholding aid to
Ukraine in exchange for the prosecution of a political opponent because we don’t know
that, but IF IT IS, then this would likely be the biggest scandal of a presidency that
is predicated on scandals.
It would be an abuse of power so egregious, followed by a cover up so egregious, that
Trump shouldn’t even make it to the next election to see all of his sleuthing pay off.
So time will tell if these things are all connected, but judging by the impeccable timing,
the characteristic sloppiness, the deliberate corruption, and the glaring obviousness of
it all, I’d be stunned if it wasn’t.
And so in their desperation to screw over Joe Biden, Trump and Giuliani likely just
landed themselves in a massive hole that there’s little chance of escaping.