"As close to treason as it gets!"

Jack Murphy reports in Neon Nettle,

...President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has predicted that Attorney General William Barr will prosecute former FBI Director James Comey with treason. Giuliani said Barr is preparing to bring charges against Comey for his role in the recently dropped case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Appearing on The Cats Roundtable radio show, Giuliani told John Catsimatidis: “I think they have Comey."

...Giuliani described Comey’s actions as “close to treason as you can get."

...He also claimed former CIA Director John Brennan "orchestrated" the effort.“They wanted to take out the lawfully elected president of the United States. And they wanted to do it by lying," Giuliani said."Submitting false affidavits. Using phony witnesses. In other words, they wanted to do it by illegal means," he added."What is overthrowing the government by illegal means? … It’s treason,” he said.

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Rudy Giuliani shares some thoughts with Laura Ingraham

Are you just talking, Rudy, or are you going to push hard for this?

Ashe Schow reports in Daily Wire,

Two days after Christmas, former New York City mayor and President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told The Hill’s TV program that Robert Mueller, who is investigating alleged collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, should be investigated for destroying text messages related to the case.

Giuliani was being interviewed by Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton when he accused Mueller and his office of destruction of evidence because the special counsel erased text messages between fired FBI agent Peter Strozk and the FBI employee he was having an affair with, Lisa Page.

“Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and tactics of his lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the start of his probe,” Giuliani told Sexton.

The Inspector General for the Department of Justice released a report earlier in the month that text messages between Strzok and Page were not fully preserved and had large gaps missing. The report blamed a “technical glitch” for the erasure of those messages, even though it recovered 19,000 texts from the couple sent prior to Mueller being named in the Russia probe. Strzok and Page were the two agents who helped launch that probe, after exchanging anti-Trump texts and talking about an “insurance policy” if Trump actually got elected in 2016, which he did. That “insurance policy” appears to be the claim that the Kremlin assisted Trump’s campaign and helped the president steal the election.

Conveniently, the missing text messages between Strzok and Page were from the time when they both worked for Mueller. Their phones’ memories were cleared after the two left Mueller’s team when it was revealed they were working on the probe and sending anti-Trump texts.

“That should be investigated, damn it, that should be investigated fully. You want a special counsel, get one for that,” Giuliani said on Hill.TV.

Giuliani then compared the erasure of the text messages to the erased tape in President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal when asked if he thought the move was intentional.

“It’s actually worse than Rose Mary Woods [Nixon’s secretary],” he explained. “She erased less than 19 minutes of conversation, but the FBI got rid of more than 19,000 messages.” Thousands more may be deleted forever.

Credibility? What's that?

Rudy Giuliani was a busy guy today. Here he is on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Did you catch his oh by the way comment that he has prosecuted 5000 cases?

Giuliani goes after Cohen's attorney, long-time Clinton lawyer, Lanny Davis, whom Giuliani refers to as being "almost as bad as Cohen." Davis said Cohen "did not intend to deceive." Then, Giuliani notes that Cohen surreptitiously taped a two-hour conversation with CNN's Chris Cuomo, after telling Cuomo he was not recording him. Telling "Clinton-like lies; lies that can be contradicted by tape recorders."

The political horsetrading phase.

Sundance writes about Rudy Giuliani joining Trump's legal team today.

If you look at Robert Mueller from the position of trying to protect his cherished Deep State institutions from horrible Trump swamp draining…. things begin to take a more accurate context. The only way for Mueller to protect his Swamp Allies and Institutions was to generate leverage against Trump.

Having established only political leverage, nothing factually unlawful or illegal, the Mueller investigation begins to dry up. Leverage diminishes.

Without direct leverage against President Trump, Team Mueller moved to position leverage against those Trump cares about… that’s a secondary approach, but the secondary leverage approach is fraught with public noting Mueller is on a “witch hunt”… the investigation into outlying Trump allies becomes transparent in motive. Support for Mueller erodes amid independent-minded people.

Enter Rudy Giuliani, a political and legal Subject Matter Expert – with direct knowledge of evidence held by NYPD and NY FBI field office of gross criminal conduct by Hillary Clinton. (Weiner Laptop etc) Buried by SDNY Clinton Allies.

With Special Counsel Mueller having exhausted most of his investigative leverage, Giuliani enters to negotiate Mueller’s exit and discuss his team’s path of retreat and image face-saving.

The discussion from Mueller’s perspective will not center around Trump, but rather center around how much risk to Hillary Clinton, and by extension political allies within FBI and DOJ – including Obama White House, Mueller will permit.

Mueller will be looking to protect the interests of Obama, Clinton, Lynch, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, etc. and negotiating degrees of risk to the institutions each represents. This is the political horsetrading phase. The leverage cards held by each participant are laid on the table for discussion. Low leverage officials will be sacrificed by Mueller to protect those holding more leverage.

Giuliani is a well-qualified person to present the Trump administration position within these negotiations. They are essentially negotiating who faces criminal prosecution and who doesn’t.

Ultimately protecting Obama and Clinton will be of higher importance to Mueller. If Mueller doesn’t protect Clinton, he knows her team will destroy everyone if she goes down. That scorched earth approach is a historic part of Team Clinton’s leverage. The stronger the evidence is against Clinton the more people Mueller will have to give up to protect her. The stronger the evidence against the corrupt institutions, the bigger the officials Mueller will have to sacrifice to save them.

Negotiating all this with Robert Mueller will likely be Rudy Giuliani’s primary job.

Likely the general public will never know the ultimate deal decisions. We will only be able to gauge the scale of corruption by the officials Mueller agrees to sacrifice.

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Laura Ingraham, Roger Ailes, and Rudy Giuliani to help Trump prepare for debates

Katie McHugh reports at Breitbart,

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham is now part of Donald Trump’s debate prep team, joining Roger Ailes and Rudy Giuliani.

The Washington Post reported Saturday:

Donald Trump is taking a different approach. He summons his informal band of counselors — including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, talk-radio host Laura Ingraham and ousted Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes — to his New Jersey golf course for Sunday chats. Over bacon cheeseburgers, hot dogs and glasses of Coca-Cola, they test out zingers and chew over ways to refine the Republican nominee’s pitch.

Ingraham may play Hillary Clinton in a mock debate if Trump chooses to hold debate rehearsals, the report added.

Trump and Clinton will face off in three scheduled presidential debates: September 26, October 9, and October 19.