LEGAL/RUDY GUILIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump publicly undermined his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Friday [5-4-18], saying the former New York City mayor had only a loose grasp of the Stormy Daniels business when he spoke about it earlier this week. A clarifying statement from Giuliani issued four hours later did little to illuminate the matter. Instead, the series of pronouncements only lent further confusion to an issue that has deeply undercut the administration’s credibility and has fueled the impression of a West Wing in crisis. ‘He’ll get his facts straight,’ Trump stipulated of his longtime friend on Friday morning, before adding: “There has been a lot of misinformation. I say, You know what? Learn before you speak. It’s a lot easier.’ Calling Giuliani a ‘great guy,’ Trump nonetheless insisted his attorney wasn’t fully up to speed when he told an interviewer that Trump had reimbursed another lawyer for hush money paid to Daniels, an adult film actress who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the encounter.”
-Kevin Liptak, “Trump walks back Giuliani: ‘He’ll get his facts straight’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 4, 2018 2:29 pm