The real reason Rudy Giuliani just confessed to Donald Trump’s guilt
On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump’s attorney Ty Cobb resigned. This left Trump’s friend and criminal co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani, who joined Trump’s legal team less then two weeks ago, in charge by default. It took Rudy just a few hours to go on live national television and acknowledge that Trump is guilty on crimes ranging from obstruction of justice to violations of federal election laws. So what just happened?
Some people are going to assume Rudy Giuliani simply went off the deep end and accidentally blew it. After all, we’ve seen Rudy say some dumb things on television before. But step back and look at the entirety of Rudy’s brief tenure as Trump’s informal legal adviser. Rudy came on board immediately after the developments surrounding Michael Cohen made clear that Trump isn’t going to survive this. Rudy’s first act as Trump’s legal adviser was to try to arrange a Trump interview with Robert Mueller.
That interview would serve to speed up Donald Trump’s ouster dramatically. Either Trump would lie during the interview and Mueller would nail him for it, or Trump would tell the truth about his crimes, and Mueller would nail him that way. Giuliani is a former prosecutor, so he knows how these things work. His very first act as Trump’s adviser was to try to feed Trump to the lions. Now that Trump has tweeted about how he doesn’t like the interview questions, and it feels like Trump isn’t going to do the interview after all, Rudy has raced onto television and announced that Trump was involved in Cohen’s illegal payout to Stormy Daniels, and that Trump was trying to obstruct justice when he fired Jamey Comey.
Rudy Giuliani is blowing this for Donald Trump in way too perfect of a fashion. This isn’t some random incoherent train wreck on Rudy’s part. He’s frantically trying to sabotage Trump and bring him down as quickly as he can. Either he’s had a crisis of conscience and he’s trying to save the nation from Trump, or he thinks it’s the only way to save Trump from himself, or he’s trying to take Trump down in the hope that the investigation won’t circle back to Rudy’s own role in sabotaging the FBI during the election. But make no mistake: this isn’t all one big accident. Rudy is trying to take Trump down.
