The real reason Rudy Giuliani has suddenly gone deafeningly silent
After Rudy Giuliani announced that he was informally joining Donald Trump’s criminal defense team, he proceeded to spend nearly every day running his mouth in reckless and often self-defeating fashion. Rudy kept confessing to Trump’s crimes, and giving away Team Trump’s motivations, then having to walk it all back – only to quickly go out and start running his mouth again. But about ten days ago, Giuliani went deafeningly silent, and we know why.
It all began when the Inspector General for the Department of Justice released a comprehensive report on the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The report spared no one. It hammered FBI Director James Comey for essentially leading a witch hunt against Clinton. It slammed other FBI agents for their various inappropriate political stances. Curiously, the report left out the part where Rudy Giuliani admitted just before the election that FBI sources had tipped him off about a bombshell that was about to surface.
When the DOJ Inspector General was then asked why this incident was left out, he said it was due to an ongoing investigation. Giuliani then admitted that he had in fact been interviewed by the DOJ about this not long before he joined Trump’s legal team. In other words, he did indeed join Trump’s team in the hope of derailing the overall Trump-Russia investigation before it could circle around and focus on him. Once he learned ten days ago that he’s still under criminal investigation, he suddenly went silent.
It’s one thing to try to sabotage a criminal investigation because you fear that it’s eventually going to target you. But if you learn that the investigation is in fact targeting you, and you continue to try to sabotage that investigation, that’s textbook obstruction of justice. So now he’s gone silent accordingly. The question is whether he’s gone silent strictly to try to avoid obstruction charges, or because he’s considering cutting a plea deal. Stay tuned.
