1/17/2019

2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “If you know anything about the White House’s reaction to the ongoing special counsel probe into Russia interference in the 2016 election, it’s these two words: ‘No collusion.’ Trump, as well as his top aides — everyone from senior counselor Kellyanne Conway to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders — has insisted since the start of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation in spring 2017 that no one in the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to help his candidacy and hurt that of Hillary Clinton…Trump’s Twitter feed, too, is choked with ‘no collusion’ talk. According to the indispensable Trump Twitter Archive, Trump has tweeted the words ‘no collusion’ 60 separate times, with the first coming on May 12, 2017 and the most recent happening on January 6. All of which brings me to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday [1-16-19] night. And these lines from Giuliani, in particular: ‘I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or people in the campaign. I said the President of the United States. There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here, conspiring with the Russians to hack the DNC.’ Here’s the thing: Giuliani — as Cuomo pointed out in the moment — is 100% wrong about, well, all of it.”

Chris Cillizza, “Rudy Giuliani just totally contradicted 18 months of ‘no collusion’ talk from Donald Trump,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 17, 2019 2:20 pm