LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of revelations that suggest Michael Cohen may have turned on Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s current lawyer, argued that Trump’s former attorney wasn’t credible and has ‘lied all his life.’ That’s a stark reversal from what Giuliani once said about Cohen, whom he described as truthful not long ago. In May, Giuliani said that Cohen was ‘honest,’ and just a few weeks ago he said he didn’t think Cohen would lie, saying, “I think he is going to tell the truth.” The criticism Giuliani is now leveling at Cohen follows a series of reports that have led the President to lash out at his former lawyer. First, CNN obtained a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump from 2016 discussing how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model’s story about an alleged affair. Then, citing sources with knowledge of the situation, CNN reported that Cohen claimed Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer up dirt about Hillary Clinton to his campaign.”
–Clare Foran and Austen Bundy, “Giuliani once praised Michael Cohen as ‘honest,’ but now says Cohen has ‘lied all his life’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 29, 2018 6:59 am