Rudy Giuliani (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty)
We have a representative of the president of the United States basically admitting to paying women money to not disclose the fact that they have been in some kind of untoward [relationship] with the president. And his response and his defense is that if it had been more money, it would have been more serious. We are living in strange times. I mean, we are in a death spiral of stupid. This is insanity.
— Professor Melissa Murray of NYU Law, ripping on Rudy Giuliani’s absurd defense of Donald Trump, when he called the premise of a campaign finance case against the president “weak” because it involved small amounts of money.
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