The attorney representing Rudy Giuliani has just released a statement defending the former NYC mayor, former U.S. Attorney, and former attorney for President Donald Trump, and it’s chock-full of Trumpian extremist rhetoric.
“It is outrageous that the Trump Derangement Syndrome has gone so far that hatred has driven this unjustified and unethical attack on the United States Attorney and Mayor who did more to reduce crime than virtually any other in American history,” Bob Costello, Giuliani’s attorney, writes, as Reuters reports.
It is clear Giuliani is taking the Trump tactic of trying his case in the press rather than in the courts. The first sentence of the lengthy, typo-laden, run-on sentence-filled statement attacks the supposed “Biden Crime Family,” and Hunter Biden, alleging the President’s son is a “foreign agent” who has “child pornography” and “money laundering” on his “hard drive.”
The statement also claims Giuliani’s attorney “offered to sit with” federal prosecutors “and demonstrate that Mr. Giuliani’s conduct was lawful.”
And it, of course, mentions Hillary Clinton and her supposed “blatant crimes.”
But as The New York Times revealed when it broke the news that federal agents raided Giuliani’s home and office, “senior political appointees,” presumably former Attorney General Bill Barr, a top Trump ally, quashed the idea of executing search warrants on the President’s lawyer who is being investigated for his actions in and surrounding Ukraine.
Giuliani gave federal prosecutors “one cell phone, one iPad and one laptop,” CNBC reports. “A source told NBC that FBI agents also in the morning executed a search warrant at the Washington-area home of the Republican lawyer Victoria Toensing, who is close to Giuliani.”
Reporter Andrew Feinberg posted the entire statement: