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Superlawyer Rudy Giuliani Heading To Tucker To Confess Some More Crimes

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Rudy Giuliani does not disappoint!

Well, unless you think there’s a minimum standard of behavior for an officer of the court, in which case he disappoints quite a lot.

Yesterday President Trump’s personal attorney awoke to find the FBI at the door with a warrant to seize files and electronics. After promising to hold a press conference at 3pm, he instead dispatched his obnoxious son Andrew to rant inanities to reporters about Hunter Biden.

“The only piece of evidence that they did not take up there today was the only piece of incriminating evidence that is in there,” he shouted indignantly. “And it does not belong to my father, it belongs to the current president’s son.”

The younger Giuliani failed to explain why his father was in possession of electronic equipment which does not belong to him. Nor did he seem to grok that federal agents came with a warrant for specific devices belonging to Rudy Giuliani, and couldn’t be fobbed off with just any old laptop. (And indeed there’s a pending federal investigation of Hunter Biden in Delaware which already accepted whatever nonsense Rudy and his crack team of investigators managed to dig up.)

Late last night, Rudy’s lawyer Robert Costello, the one who attempted to dangle a pardon to Michael Cohen using mangled Garth Brooks lyrics, put out a statement expressing outrage that the Justice Department wouldn’t simply take Giuliani’s word for it that he was totally innocent.

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The search warrants involve only one indication of an alleged incident of failure to register as a foreign agent. Mayor Giuliani has not only denied this allegation, but offered twice in the past two years through his attorney Bob Costello to demonstrate that it is entirely untrue.  Twice the offer was rejected by the SDNY by stating that while they were willing to listen to anything Mr. Costello had to say, they would not tell Mr. Giuliani or Mr. Costello, the subject matter they wanted him to address.

Rudy Giuliani, who ran the Southern District, is now pretending that it’s standard operating procedure for prosecutors to lay out the entire scope of their investigation so that targets and subjects can decide whether they want to come in for a chat.

“Twice, Mr. Giuliani’s counsel offered to sit with the SDNY and demonstrate that Mr. Giuliani’s conduct was lawful,” Costello bellowed, omitting to add that his client insisted that the FBI show all its cards beforehand.

“It is outrageous that the Trump Derangement Syndrome has gone so far that hatred has driven this unjustified and unethical attack on the United States Attorney and Mayor who did more to reduce crime than virtually any other in American history,” he continued. “Mr. Giuliani respects the law,  and he can demonstrate that his conduct as a lawyer and a citizen was absolutely legal and ethical.”

(The hundreds of thousands of Black New Yorkers subject to unlawful searches under Giuliani’s leadership could not be reached for comment.)

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Costello went on to pretend ignorance of the “taint team” which will be dispatched to filter out any privileged information, professing horror at “another disturbing example of complete disregard for the attorney-client privilege protected by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.”

But Rudy wasn’t content to let his counsel do the primal screaming for him. He’s set to discuss his case with Sean Hannity Tucker Carlson this evening on live television — as one does when a judge has just found probable cause to believe there’s evidence of a crime in one’s electronic communications.

If one is out of one’s damn mind.

For his part, Hannity is very certain, without having seen the warrant or having any actual knowledge of the government’s case, that President Biden is “using the Justice Department to go after political enemies, and clearly at the top of the list is a guy by the name of Rudy Giuliani, America’s mayor.”

It’s just another spiteful prosecution for “process crimes” like lying to congress and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, he griped yesterday on his radio show. Not serious offenses like having an offsite email server!

“Now is it possible Rudy Giuliani did something wrong here?,” Hannity wondered. “I would assume it’s unlikely, because he is a lawyer and he is smart.”

Which is more or less what Costello appears to have argued to the FBI, and with exactly as much effect.

Remember that time when Rudy went on Hannity’s show to confessed that Trump had laundered the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels through the books at the Trump Organization and called it a “retainer agreement” for Michael Cohen?

Shine on, you batshit crazy diamond!

Hannity Transcript and Audio [via Media Matters]

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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