Here are the five felonies Rudy Giuliani just confessed to on Donald Trump’s behalf
Last night Donald Trump’s new attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared on Trump’s other attorney Michael Cohen’s other client Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News. That was surreal enough on its own, before Giuliani opened his mouth and made some stunning admissions about Trump’s actions. Even as Trump’s allies frantically try to spin it to the contrary, we’ve counted at least five felonies that Giuliani confessed to Trump having committed.
We’ll start by quoting Congressman Ted Lieu, who has a law degree and is a former Air Force JAG prosector. Here’s the list he came up with: “1. $130k payment to Stormy was in-kind coordinated contribution above limits. 2. Cohen was a straw donor used to cover up true source of contribution. 3. False statements on financial disclosures. 4. False statements on banking forms.” Lieu then went on to explain that “campaign finance law violations over $25k are felonies. The in kind contribution of $130k to Stormy Daniels was over that line. The reimbursement constitutes a separate crime of covering up the true source of a contribution.”
In other words, no matter how Trump’s camp tries to explain that his actions somehow didn’t technically violate the law due to this or that excuse, the reality is that the particulars don’t matter. Giuliani also acknowledged a fifth, unrelated felony on Trump’s part when he admitted that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey specifically to try to put an end to the Trump-Russia investigation. That’s the textbook definition of felony obstruction of justice.
So in just a matter of minutes, Donald Trump’s own pal Rudy Giuliani did more to incriminate Trump than arguably any cooperating witness who has flipped on Trump to date. It’s part of why we suspect more strongly than ever that Giuliani is purposely trying to quickly take Trump down, in the hope that it’ll prevent the Trump-Russia investigation from spreading to the point that Giuliani is also taken down for his role in the scandal.
