This mess is very complex and has been brewing and looking to bowl over long before he became president. However, there is no doubt him in office has fan the flames considerably.
There's a lot of damage control around this whole investigation...Mueller doesn't want their work tried in public opinion or Trump's handlers to have a heads up about the smoking guns of the case.... before he's dotted the i's ...given the gov't shutdown and general public mood...I think they'll choose a better time to let anyone know what they have than just before the State of the Union..seems like they're about finished though
"Categorically, I can tell you his counsel to Michael Cohen throughout that entire period was, 'Tell the truth,' " Giuliani said. "We thought he was telling the truth. I still believe he may have been telling the truth when he testified before Congress."
I'm almost certain that Trump's intent was not for Cohen to tell the truth. He may have told Cohen to tell the truth right after telling him to lie in order to cover Trump's ass. Did you ever see For a Few Good Men?
The point of my quote is to directly refute the idea that anything Rudy G says in public is relevant to what actually happened. Or somehow backs up Buzzfeed. The dispute over documents is what matters in this story. If Cohen didn't have emails or something proving this when he apparently had tons of other documents then this story is dead. I'd say that if Trump did tell Cohen to tell the truth he pointed at his eye and winked twice.
So I'm catching up on threads this morning, both checking to see if I said something stupid in the threads (that takes up most of my time on here actually), and also checking to see if something funny was said that I could use during the day and steal credit for...and then I opened up this thread in a new tab and read through the posts I opened. And as I'm reading this quote, I see the "Rudy G" thing, and I instantly thought about what Rudy Fernandez might have said, and then I realized no, he was talking about Rudy Gay. So obviously I preemptively stopped myself from saying something else stupid in this thread.