It’s not alright. Rudy is wrong. It looks like they’re inviting the Russians to help again in 2020. There are big implications for future elections. If Trump wins in 2020, it will be hard to believe he didn’t win because of Russian help. Sad!
President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, insisted on Sunday that it was acceptable for a political campaign to use hacked information about its opponent obtained from a foreign adversary — though he personally would have advised against it https://t.co/l8pKeuT66w
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 21, 2019
Why didn’t the Trump campaign call the FBI when approached by Russia? https://t.co/mMVVJHFanH
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 21, 2019
One of the most remarkable things about the last couple years is we have been given no indication that Trump’s re-election campaign will hesitate to take advantage of Russian help again, in whatever form it might take. https://t.co/TNG2Zvcmfx
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) April 21, 2019
Question: with Trump allies defending acceptance of Russian campaign help – & Mueller absolving them of criminal wrongdoing – has the US given license to its citizens to do same in 2020 & beyond? What will stop the next American from accepting the next offer of Russian help?
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 21, 2019
Trump's lawyer offered another one of his Sunday news show stunners. https://t.co/LehTA1cgax
— Esquire (@esquire) April 21, 2019
Wrong. Mueller evaluated the facts under campaign finance violations which prohibit foreign interference in elections. The only reasons he was unable to charge was because he was couldn’t place a $ valuation on the info and couldn’t show that Treason & Co. acted “willfully.” https://t.co/skjTHYYzUx
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) April 21, 2019
Rudy Giuliani declared Sunday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had been nearly “tortured” in jail as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation, and referred to one of Mueller’s lead prosecutors as a “hit man” before walking both comments back https://t.co/LouD8IjCin
— POLITICO (@politico) April 21, 2019
Ask any national security professional in the military, Defense Department, intelligence community, FBI or Justice Department what would happen to them out they accepted stolen material from the Russians. https://t.co/gKPVBk8u0V
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) April 21, 2019
My G-d. There’s nothing wrong with getting information from Russians to help win a U.S election???!!!!
— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) April 21, 2019
So that’s it? The floodgates are open for 2020? Saudis? Chinese?
This is from the president’s lawyer?
These people are not acting in America’s national security interests. https://t.co/yRaHppeRqm
Former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani: “There's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians.”
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) April 21, 2019
Fact-check: There’s something majorly wrong with a campaign taking information from Russians.https://t.co/aFJcFNEYd9
“So it’s now okay for political campaigns to work with material stolen by foreign adversaries?” “It depends on the stolen material.” @RudyGiuliani tells me. Compares stolen WikiLeaks emails to the Pentagon Papers. #MTP
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) April 21, 2019
Adlai Stevenson in 1960 and Hubert Humphrey In 1968 both felt and acted differently, refusing Russian offers of help out of hand. https://t.co/j923vIi762
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 21, 2019
Stunning.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 21, 2019
This is the personal lawyer of the President of the United States praising the illegal hacking of emails by a foreign government to influence an election as a public service. https://t.co/lHjgROI3ge
A plan I'm sure is already in motion, if I know my Russians. (But that's not really my area of expertise or anything.) https://t.co/Qrim254m8P
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2019
This is just the wrongest wrong imaginable. https://t.co/xMmRFnEyDw
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 21, 2019
This reveals the frightening implications of the blank check given to Trump by Republicans.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 21, 2019
They’ve given our adversaries a green light to undermine our elections, and future candidates a green light to accept their aid. https://t.co/i7kJ6uaiJl
Rudy suggests to @jaketapper that he knows of some nefarious activity involving Romney 2012 campaign without offering evidence. “I could tell you the things he wanted to do,” calling Romney a “hypocrite.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 21, 2019
“There’s nothing wrong with getting information from Russians,” he adds
Whatever @realDonaldTrump is paying @RudyGiuliani is not enough to compensate him for the complete and utter sacrifice of integrity and credibility required to defend the indefensible. https://t.co/T4GJTTmHmq
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 21, 2019
Sad! 