Rudy Giuliani tried to blame Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the investigation into Trump, and Chuck Todd laughed at him.

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Rudy Giuliani’s Trump defense was so nonsensical that it made Chuck Todd Laugh

Transcript via Meet The Press:

RUDY GIULIANI:

And now the question should be for anybody who wants justice, how did this happen? Who started it? And I think you may find that the Clinton campaign may have interfered in this election even more than the Russians did.

CHUCK TODD:

It’s an undefended accusation. I can’t get into it now. Very quickly —

RUDY GIULIANI:

Barack Obama knew —

CHUCK TODD:

You had said —

RUDY GIULIANI:

Barack Obama — it says, or at least it raises the specter with two checks between Strzok and his girlfriend — they say the Obama people are keeping in close touch with this. Those are — that’s the execution of the Steele affi — of the Steele dossier.

CHUCK TODD:

You mean — it could also be that the Russian government is implicating —

RUDY GIULIANI:

But why do you laugh — but why do you laugh, by the way —

CHUCK TODD:

— how do you not know that it —

RUDY GIULIANI:

But why do you laugh, by the way?

CHUCK TODD:

Because you’re making an assumption that it’s some nefarious thing.

RUDY GIULIANI:

No, I’m not making an assumption —

CHUCK TODD:

— but it’s about the —

RUDY GIULIANI:

I am — I was in the government for —

CHUCK TODD:

Why wouldn’t the government be concerned about —

RUDY GIULIANI:

— the 17 —

CHUCK TODD:

— Russian interference

RUDY GIULIANI:

And why wouldn’t the government —

CHUCK TODD:

— into the presidential campaign?

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Rudy Giuliani has been an Easter disaster for Trump

In order for the Obama/Hillary investigating Trump conspiracy to make sense, one has to believe that Obama and the Democratic Party didn’t care about Russian election interference and were only out to get Donald Trump.

The truth that Obama was worried about the Russian attack. It is Republicans who wouldn’t work with Obama on a joint statement condemning the attack before the election. Giuliani’s conspiracy theory is a way of minimalizing and taking attention away from the fact that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump win.

Giuliani has been an Easter Sunday disaster. The president’s lawyer has been laughed on national television, as the evidence mounts of Donald Trump’s criminal and impeachable offenses.

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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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