After his Fox News meltdown, Rudy Giuliani changes his Donald Trump story again, makes it even worse
Last night Donald Trump’s new “attorney” Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News and promptly confessed that Trump committed multiple felonies. Suffice it to say that the interview met with quite a few blank stares. Giuliani admitted that Trump was in on Michael Cohen’s illegal election payoff to Stormy Daniels, and that Trump reimbursed Cohen after the fact. Rudy couldn’t seem to explain the math. Now we know why. He took another swing at it later in the night, and it turns out Rudy can’t do math.
After the Fox News debacle, Rudy Giuliani tried to explain Donald Trump’s “reimbursement” to Michael Cohen in detail to BuzzFeed. Rudy claimed that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 by paying him $35,000 each month for year. Wait a minute, that can’t be right. That would be $420,000 in total. No one pays $420,000 to reimburse someone for a $130,000 debt, and particularly not a conniving cheapskate like Donald Trump.
It’s possible that Trump has been paying Cohen a $35,000 monthly salary to be his fixer, and Giuliani is referring to that. But if so, then that would mean Trump didn’t actually pay Cohen back, and instead simply forced Cohen to take the money out of his own salary. Short of that, we can’t begin to imagine where Rudy got the $35,000 number from. It doesn’t divide evenly into $130,000 by any number of months. In short, we have no idea what Rudy is even talking about with these numbers. Either he’s revealed something really ugly, or he’s just making up numbers that can be easily refuted, and either of those is a really bad thing to be coming out Trump’s lawyer’s mouth.
Then again, after watching Rudy Giuliani’s utterly whacked out and barely comprehensible performance on Fox News last night, we’re surprised he didn’t announce that Donald Trump repaid Michael Cohen by giving him a purple number of dollars over a period of twelve giraffes. Either Rudy is purposely plotting to take Trump down, or he’s so far gone he belongs in a rubber room.
