President Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from attorney Rudy Giuliani, even casting doubts about whether the former New York mayor is still his lawyer.
Asked whether Giuliani remained his personal attorney, Trump said: “I don’t know.”
“I haven’t spoken to Rudy,” Trump told reporters as he was leaving the White House for a political rally in Louisiana. “I spoke to him yesterday, briefly. He’s a very good attorney and he has been my attorney, yeah sure.”
By the end of the day it will be “Rudy who?”
Trump’s remarks followed the arrest late Wednesday of two of Giuliani’s associates, Ukranian-born business partners Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, at Dulles International Airport. The two were arrested by FBI agents and charged with in connection with alleged schemes to funnel foreign money to U.S. political campaigns.
Prosecutors say Parnas and Fruman helped Giuliani meet a Ukrainian prosecutor in the effort to gather dirt on Biden and his son Hunter, who once had business interests in Ukraine. Federal officials said Parnas and Fruman were arrested as they prepared to board an international flight with one-way tickets.
Trump said he doesn’t know them, doesn’t know them at all.
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5 responses to “Is that the one with the red nose?”
Hahaha! He always does that: “You’ll have to ask him.” And the answer is always the one that any fool could see.
What’s that black halo behind Guiliani’s head?
maddog1129, it looks almost like a yarmulke. But Guiliani isn’t Jewish.
I thought he was wearing a yarmulke (and wondered why) when I first saw it but then I decided it’s just something about the white background – the Russian perp on Trump’s right has a thinner version of it.