Rudy Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks

Mod: More evidence that there is nothing left in the brain box of Rudy G. except broken glass and bug dust.

Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks (Politicolink): Rudy Giuliani on Monday walked back statements he made this weekend concerning potential conversations between then-candidate Donald Trump and Michael Cohen about plans to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Giuliani, the former New York mayor and current attorney for the president, said during an interview Sunday on NBC that discussions between Trump and his ex-fixer regarding the project may have lasted up until Election Day.

“It's our understanding that they went on throughout 2016,” Giuliani said, adding that “there weren't a lot of them, but there were conversations. Can't be sure of the exact dates, but the president can remember having conversations with him about it."

Giuliani sought to retract those remarks in a statement to reporters Monday.

“My recent statements about discussions during the 2016 campaign between Michael Cohen and then-candidate Donald Trump about a potential Trump Moscow‘project’ were hypothetical and not based on conversations I had with the President,” Giuliani said. “My comments did not represent the actual timing or circumstances of any such discussions. The point is that the proposal was in the earliest stage and did not advance beyond a free non-binding letter of intent.”

The discussion of the timeline of Trump's proposed project feeds into the concerns of political opponents who fear that the president was, and might still be, too close to Russia and President Vladimir Putin.

George Conway Mocks Rudy Giuliani's Backpedaling With Brutal 5-Word 'Translation'(Huffington Post link): George Conway, attorney and husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, isn’t buying Rudy Giuliani’s latest defense of President Donald Trump. On Monday, Giuliani tried to walk back his previous claim that Trump had conversations about a possible Trump Tower project in Moscow throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.

On “Meet the Press,” the former New York City mayor said that Trump can “remember having conversations” on the subject with disgraced former attorney Michael Cohen throughout 2016. “There weren’t a lot of them, but there were conversations,” said Giuliani, who is an attorney for Trump. “Can’t be sure the exact date. ... Probably up to ― could be up to as far as October, November.”

But on Monday, Giuliani said his comments were “hypothetical” and “not based on conversations” with Trump. Conway offered a “translation” of Giuliani’s comments, summing it all up in just five words:


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