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Rebuked for ‘Offensive’ Remarks on Soros’s Jewishness, Giuliani Doubles Down; Rudy Giuliani Raises Eyebrows After Calling Himself ‘Former Attorney General of the United States’ on Facebook Page

By The Times of Israel. US President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudi Giuliani continued to attack the Jewishness of George Soros Tuesday, despite being rebuked by a prominent anti-Semitism watchdog for an earlier statement questioning the Jewishness of the liberal philanthropist. . .

In an interview with New York Magazine, conducted on December 8 and published Monday, Giuliani, who is Christian, claimed that he was “more of a Jew than Soros is,” accusing the businessman of being an “enemy of Israel.”

“He doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”

He also claimed Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, was “controlled” by Soros, as were other ambassadors, repeating a common conspiracy theory regarded as anti-Semitic by some. . .

His comments drew a strong backlash from Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt, who told The Daily Beast that “Mr. Giuliani is not the arbiter of who is Jewish and who is not, or what is anti-Semitic and what is not.”

(Read more from “Rebuked for ‘Offensive’ Remarks on Soros’s Jewishness, Giuliani Doubles Down” HERE)

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Rudy Giuliani Raises Eyebrows After Calling Himself ‘Former Attorney General of the United States’ on Facebook Page

By Fox News. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had critics scratching their heads on Tuesday after publicizing his Facebook page, where he referred to himself as a “Former Attorney General of the United States.”

Giuliani, who has made headlines in recent months over his involvement with the Ukraine scandal as President Trump’s personal attorney, plugged his Facebook page on Tuesday and teased users about findings from his “investigation.” . . .

In addition to the erroneous listing, Giuliani is also described as a “government official” despite his current role as the president’s personal lawyer.

Giuliani’s LinkedIn page correctly states that he was a U.S. Associate Attorney General between February 1981 and June 1983 under former President Ronald Reagan. He then spent five-and-a-half years as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, leaving that position on New Year’s Day, 1989. (Read more from “Rudy Giuliani Raises Eyebrows After Calling Himself ‘Former Attorney General of the United States’ on Facebook Page” HERE)

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Giuliani Claims to Have Decades of Evidence Relating to ‘Biden Family’ Corruption; Biden Says Trump Is Stoking ‘Same Anti-Semitic Bile’ as Nazis

By Daily Wire. On Saturday afternoon, former Mayor of New York City and President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani sent out a tweet seemingly meant to clarify his recent “insurance” remarks.

. . .On Saturday, Giuliani appeared on Fox News with anchor Ed Henry. During the segment, which largely focused on the ongoing impeachment inquiry, Henry asked Giuliani the following questions about his relationship with the president: “Have you talked to President Trump in the last week or two? Have you met with him? Are you still his counsel?”

[Giuliani noted] that he and the president “have a very, very good relationship,” . . .

During a recent telephone interview with The Guardian, Giuliani was asked if he was worried that President Trump might attempt to “throw him under a bus,” to which he replied: “I’m not, but I do have very, very good insurance. So if he does, all my hospital bills will be paid.”

Giuliani’s own attorney, who was on the call with his client, made sure to note that the insurance line was simply a joke. (Read more from “Giuliani Claims to Have Decades of Evidence Relating to ‘Biden Family’ Corruption” HERE)

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‘I’m a Student of the Holocaust’: Biden Says Trump Is Stoking ‘Same Anti-Semitic Bile’ as Nazis

By Washington Examiner. 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden claimed President Trump is creating similar conditions in the United States to those that existed in Nazi Germany leading up to the Holocaust.

“This is a guy who made a straight appeal for white supremacy. You saw those folks coming out of the fields out there in Charlottesville and everything since then, their veins bulging, the hate-spewing from them,” the former vice president said Sunday evening at a fundraiser in Providence, Rhode Island, according to a pool report by Donita Naylor of the Providence Journal.

“I’m a student of the Holocaust. Same anti-Semitic bile that was chanted in the streets in Germany in the 1930s,” he continued. “Same thing. Carrying Nazi flags and accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan.”

Biden has long claimed that a principle reason he decided to run for the White House a third time was because of the white supremacist protest dubbed the “United the Right” in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 that left one counter-protester dead and scores of others injured. (Read more from “‘I’m a Student of the Holocaust’: Biden Says Trump Is Stoking ‘Same Anti-Semitic Bile’ as Nazis” HERE)

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Rudy Giuliani Accuses Biden of Threatening Senator, Compares Him to the Mafia

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused Joe Biden of threatening Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and compared him to the criminal mafia after Biden reacted to the opening of a probe into his Ukraine dealings.

Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, tweeted the accusation from his social media account on Friday after quoting the candidate’s comments that Graham would “regret his whole life.” . . .

“Now a threat to a US Senator. This is getting to be more and more like my old mafia cases,” he added. “They sure do sound like crooks.”

Biden responded on Friday to the probe of his and his son’s activities in Ukraine by saying he was “disappointed” and “angered.”

The Democratic frontrunner claimed that Graham was under the thumb of President Donald Trump and his allies because he knew that he would not be re-elected if he countered the president. (Read more from “Rudy Giuliani Accuses Biden of Threatening Senator, Compares Him to the Mafia” HERE)

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Now the Deep State Is Calling Trump’s Attorney a “National Security Threat”

Rudy Giuliani’s no good, very bad month keeps getting worse. Just days after two of his clients and business partners were arrested and charged with violating federal campaign finance laws, reports started surfacing that Giuliani himself was the subject of an investigation for possible violations of federal lobbying laws. But according to Wednesday report from CNN, the scope of the federal probe into Giuliani’s foreign entanglements is far broader than initial reports revealed, and includes a counterintelligence investigation.

The counterintelligence facet of the investigation into the president’s personal attorney is reportedly exploring whether a foreign influence campaign attempted to use Giuliani’s business and political connections to gain influence over U.S. policy in the White House.

According to CNN Legal and National Security Analyst, attorney and former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa, the existence of a counterintelligence investigation means the FBI believes Giuliani “may pose a national security threat to the United States.”

Unlike typical criminal probes, counterintel investigations are not predicated on the mere suspicion of unlawful conduct, Rangappa explained. Preliminary counterintel inquiries generally require some verifiable contact with persons linked to foreign intelligence, are kept secret, and must be closed within six months unless an actual threat is identified. Where a threat is identified, however, a preliminary inquiry may escalate into a full investigation that can continue indefinitely.

“Based on reports that the FBI was questioning people about Giuliano’s counterintelligence related issues as far back as Feb/Mar, an ongoing investigation would mean that this is a ‘Full’ rather than ‘Preliminary” Investigation,’ Rangappa wrote Wednesday. (Read more from “Now the Deep State Is Calling Trump’s Attorney a “National Security Threat” HERE)

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Giuliani: ‘Pretty Close to Overwhelming Evidence’ That Obama Ordered Hillary, Democrats to Dig up Dirt in Ukraine on Trump; Ukrainian President Says He’s Never Met Rudy Giuliani (VIDEO)

By Daily Wire. Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested on Monday night that there was serious evidence that the Obama White House directed Democrats to work with Ukraine to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.

Giuliani joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday night where he detailed the latest developments into the situation regarding Ukraine, which stems from a 2017 Politico investigation that found that Ukraine was working with operatives for the Democratic National Committee to sabotage Trump.

“The reason why the president of the United States had an obligation to ask the president of Ukraine to follow up on these allegations because there is substantial — I don’t want to exaggerate it but pretty close to overwhelming evidence, including a finding by a Ukrainian court that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats cooperated with Ukrainians with the order coming directly from the White House … to dig up dirt on her political opponent, and they did,” Giuliani said.

Giuliani then shifted his comments to focus on then-Vice President and now current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and the allegations surrounding his Ukraine corruption scandal.

“In this case, Biden sold his office for millions,” Giuliani said. “Is there anybody that believes that Ukraine or China were paying for Hunter Biden’s expertise? Or do you have the common sense to realize they were buying Joe Biden’s office? And that is very damaging to the United States. Joe Biden was sent to Ukraine to, in part, deal with corruption, and he helped to corrupt the Ukraine. He is a laughingstock.” (Read more from “Giuliani: ‘Pretty Close to Overwhelming Evidence’ That Obama Ordered Hillary, Democrats to Dig up Dirt in Ukraine on Trump” HERE)

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Zelensky Says He’s Never Met Rudy Giuliani

By The Daily Caller. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that he’s never met President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Zelensky’s comments contradict the anonymous whistleblower who claimed that the president had pressured Zelensky to speak with the former New York City mayor.

“I’ve never met Rudy Giuliani,” Zelensky said. “Never. And never had any phone calls with him.”

The former New York City mayor has been making the rounds defending the president since the transcript of Trump’s call with Zelensky was released. (Read more from “Zelensky Says He’s Never Met Rudy Giuliani” HERE)

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House Dems Subpoena Rudy Giuliani

The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for documents as part of its impeachment inquiry into the president.

In a letter to Giuliani dated Monday, the heads of three House committees asked for information related to the president’s and his lawyer’s efforts to get Ukraine’s government to investigate the Biden family.

Three Democratic-led panels — the Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees — are demanding that Giuliani produce all text messages, phone records and other communications related to the “scheme” he is accused of perpetrating “in order to determine the full extent of this effort by the President and his Administration to press Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 presidential election.”

They wrote that the House Democrats’ probe “includes an investigation of credible allegations that [Giuliani] acted as an agent of the President in a scheme to advance his personal political interests by abusing the power of the Office of the President.” Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. — who lead the Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees, respectively — asked him to produce documents by Oct. 15. . .

The subpoena adds to the heightened scrutiny of both administration officials and outside Trump confidants after the House decided last week to move forward with impeachment proceedings. On Friday, the Intelligence Committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents. The heads of the Appropriations and Budget committees also asked Friday for records related to the Office of Management and Budget’s involvement in the Trump administration deciding to hold back nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. (Read more from “House Dems Subpoena Rudy Giuliani” HERE)

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Former Federal Prosecutors Now Going After Giuliani’s Law License (VIDEO)

By Law and Crime. Reports that President Donald Trump brazenly and repeatedly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to cooperate with Rudy Giuliani in investigating Hunter Biden have led even the more moderate legal experts to suggest that impeachment may be necessary. As the sordid details of Giuliani’s role in the alleged disinformation plot continue to mount, the backlash against the president’s personal lawyer has intensified, with at least one former federal prosecutor calling for him to be disbarred and another suggesting he may have opened himself up to criminally liability. . .

Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York, responded to Giuliani by comparing him to a mafia underling following the orders of a crime boss.

“This how mafia bosses work. They make the ‘request’ & soldiers & capos (Rudy Giuliani) follow up with the demand,” she tweeted, before calling for the former New York City mayor to face more tangible consequences.

“Why is this man still a member of the NY a bar? He should not be. He is free as a [United States] citizen to make up stuff but not as member of the bar,” she wrote.

Rocah’s take on Giuliani was echoed by former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, who categorized the ordeal as an affront to the office of the president. (Read more from “Former Federal Prosecutors Now Going After Giuliani’s Law License” HERE)

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Fox News Host Confronts Guiliani, Asks If It Was ‘Appropriate’ to Look for ‘Dirt’ on Biden in Ukraine

By Newsweek. Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts confronted President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Guiliani over his travel to Ukraine, questioning whether it was “appropriate” for him to look for “dirt” on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the foreign country.

“When did this morph into an investigation of Joe Biden and [his son] Hunter Biden? And is it appropriate for you as a representative of the president to be going to Ukraine and finding dirt on Joe Biden and/or his son to use politically in 2020?” Roberts, who was guest hosting Fox News Sunday, asked.

“That’s the way you characterize it,” Guiliani, the former mayor of New York City, pushed back.

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Rudy Giuliani Astonishes Legal Experts With Remarks on Ukraine-DNC Collusion Investigation

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and President Donald Trump‘s most visible personal attorney during the Mueller investigation, confirmed on Thursday that he pushed the Ukrainian government, with help from the State Department, to search for evidence of collusion between Ukrainian officials and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). More specifically, he claimed he was looking to see if the DNC worked with Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on twice-convicted felon and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to harm the 2016 campaign.

In a move that raised the eyebrows of legal experts, Giuliani openly acknowledged that he met Ukrainian officials in Madrid. Giuliani has reportedly been investigating Hunter Biden (Joe Biden’s son) and his investments in a Ukranian natural gas company.

Giuliani has also reportedly been speaking to Andriy Yermak, a lawyer for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. While it’s unclear how aware President Trump is of Giuliani’s activities, Giuliani has told the New York Times that “[Trump] basically knows what I’m doing, sure, as his lawyer,” with regard to his investigation. . .

“[The New York] Times completely turned a story about astounding allegations of serious crimes of state concerning Dems into a piece trying to suggest I did something nefarious except they can’t say what it is,” Giuliani said to NBC News, regarding reporting of his investigation. He also confirmed that the State Department helped him connect with Yermak.

Outside of his suggestion that the DNC colluded with Ukrainian officials regarding Manafort, Giuliani also spent time questioning Joe Biden’s call for Ukraine to remove Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings, a company Biden’s son was on the board of. (Read more from “Rudy Giuliani Astonishes Legal Experts With Remarks on Ukraine-DNC Collusion Investigation” HERE)

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Bombshell: Giuliani Says Mueller Investigation Thinks Trump Knew About Trump Tower Meeting

On Friday, President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani dropped some bombshell news: he says that the Robert Mueller special counsel team doesn’t believe Trump when Trump claims that he was unaware of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian-connected lawyer.

Giuliani stated, “In the questioning of [former Trump campaign Paul] Manafort, they did tell them at the time that they believed he was lying about certain things related to us that he’s not lying about.” That meeting, details of which were revealed by Donald Trump Jr., surrounded an open attempt by a Russian go-between, Rob Goldstone, to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton – an attempt celebrated via email by Trump Jr. Trump has denied knowledge of the meeting. Other attendees of the meeting reportedly included Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Michael Cohen, who currently has a plea deal with Mueller, has also said that Trump had knowledge of the meeting.

On June 7, the day the meeting was confirmed between Trump Jr. and Goldstone, Trump gave a speech in which he stated, “I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and we’re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons. I think you’re going to find it very imformative and very, very interesting.” The speech never took place, but Hope Hicks, a trusted campaign aide, said it had nothing to do with the Trump Tower meeting anyway. In the end, the meeting came to nothing, as the Russian lawyer wanted to speak only about lifting American sanctions pressure.

According to Giuliani, the Mueller team tried to cudgel Manafort into attributing knowledge of the meeting to Trump in exchange for continuing with his plea deal. Giuliani said, “They repeated that conduct over and over again which gives us a clear indication of what they want him to say in order to get him out of solitary confinement. I find that abominable.” (Read more from “Bombshell: Giuliani Says Mueller Investigation Thinks Trump Knew About Trump Tower Meeting” HERE)

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Giuliani Says New Information Should End Mueller’s Investigation – Here’s Why

By The Blaze. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he will make a request that will lead to the end of the Mueller investigation into Russian election interference and alleged collusion with the Trump campaign. . .

Giulani is calling for a review from the Department of Justice of the documents that led to the opening of Mueller’s investigation, and believes that this will reinvigorate the accusation that the probe was illegitimate and should be ended.

Giuliani, who is one of Trump’s defense lawyers, spoke to the Associated Press about his claim that accusations of “spying” on the Trump campaign may delegitimize Mueller’s investigation.

“If the spying was inappropriate,” he said. that means we may have an entirely illegitimate investigation.”

“Coupled with Comey’s illegally leaked memos,” Giuliani explained, “this means the whole thing was a mistake and should never have happened.” (Read more from “Giuliani Says New Information Should End Mueller’s Investigation – Here’s Why” HERE)

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Giuliani: White House Wants Briefing on Classified Info

By Associated Press. President Donald Trump’s legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and may take it to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe.

Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s attorneys, told The Associated Press on Friday that the White House hopes to get a readout of the information next week, particularly about the use of a longtime government informant who approached members of Trump’s campaign in a possible bid to glean intelligence on Russian efforts to sway the election. Trump has made unproven claims of FBI misconduct and political bias and has denounced the asset as “a spy.” . . .

Suggesting that the probe was launched on the backs of inappropriately obtained information was Giuliani’s latest effort to discredit the investigation by painting it as a purely political event. The FBI began a counterintelligence investigation in July 2016 to determine if Trump campaign associates were coordinating with Russia to tip the election. The investigation was opened after the hacking of Democratic emails that intelligence officials later formally attributed to Russia. (Read more from “Giuliani: White House Wants Briefing on Classified Info” HERE)

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