No, Rudy Giuliani Is Never Going To Testify To The January 6 Committee

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The New York Times the other day had some seriously dubious reporting, Giuliani in Talks to Testify to House Jan. 6 Panel:

Rudolph W. Giuliani, who as former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyer helped lead the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is in discussions with the House Jan. 6 committee about responding to its questions, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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Mr. Giuliani, through his lawyer, has signaled to the committee that he plans to take a less confrontational stance toward its requests than some other members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle who are fighting the committee’s subpoenas or have otherwise refused to cooperate.

Mr. Giuliani’s discussions with committee officials suggest that he may be seeking to avoid a potentially costly legal fight over a subpoena that was issued to him last month. By engaging with the committee, Mr. Giuliani could also make it more difficult for the House to issue a criminal referral of him to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress if he in the end does not comply with the subpoena.

Should Mr. Giuliani ultimately provide the committee with substantive cooperation, it would be a major breakthrough for the investigation and a breach in the relationship between Mr. Trump and one of his closest if most problematic advisers. Mr. Giuliani was instrumental not only in the post-Election Day effort to keep Mr. Trump in power but also in the pressure campaign on Ukraine that led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.

One person familiar with the matter said that Mr. Giuliani was still negotiating over whether to give investigators an informal interview or a formal deposition, and that he had not yet determined how much information he might seek to shield from the committee by invoking executive privilege or attorney-client privilege with Mr. Trump.

The extent of any assistance that Mr. Giuliani might provide remains unclear and the negotiations could easily fall apart, especially as Mr. Trump continues to publicly rail against the investigation.

This led to some wild speculation on social media that Giuliani may be preparing to flip on Donald Trump.  Oh, please. Rudy Giuliani has so much potential criminal exposure on a wide array of criminal activity that he has engaged in that there is no way in hell this corrupt (suspended from practice) lawyer is ever going to become a cooperative witness. If he ever sits for a deposition at all, he will be invoking his Fifth Amendment privilege to every question.

The real Giuliani appeared on the far-right media outlet Newsmax on Tuesday night and declared the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack – along with its subpoenas – “illegal.” WATCH: Giuliani calls Jan. 6 committee and its subpoenas ‘illegal’ in off the rails rant:

The Committee has subpoenaed Giuliani, a former GOP presidential frontrunner, mayor of New York City, and U.S. Attorney, and says it fully expects him to cooperate. In its legal subpoena, the Committee asked Giuliani last month to turn over documents by February 1 and testify by February 8. [He has not.]

“How can you have any confidence in this committee which, by the way is illegal?” Giuliani told Newsmax. “I mean, it doesn’t have a minority membership,” which is false: there are two Republicans on the Committee. There would have been more but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled his members after assigning them.

“It really can’t subpoena anybody,” Giuliani also falsely claimed. The Committee has been recognized as legitimate by the federal courts.

Giuliani then went on to compare the committee’s work to the Mueller investigation and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, and falsely implied the Trump campaign was not receiving help from Russia, as he went on a crazed rant.

“It’s one – I mean, going through the whole thing we’re watching it in, you know, in retrospect, and in real time. January 6 is nothing more than Russian collusion with another name and a new lie and a new set of crazy exaggerated, ‘It’s worse than September 11. It’s worse than Pearl Harbor. It’s worse than the Civil War! It’s worse than the end of the world!” Giuliani hyperbolically declared.

“You can tell when they’re lying: they exaggerate,” he concluded.

And this mentally unhinged criminal demonstrated why he can never sit for a deposition. Rudy Giuliani Reveals Location Of Secret ‘Evidence’ Stash And… Um… Wow.

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and attorney for Donald Trump, declared on Tuesday night that he has a stash of secret evidence against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

And it’s in his bedroom.

In an interview on the right-wing Newsmax network, Giuliani said he possessed about 1,000 pieces of evidence that no one has seen yet.

“I happen to have it in my bedroom, or my den, actually,” he declared. “I’ve had it there for years.”

As the various investigations into Trump rapidly escalate, the former president’s allies have been trying to change the topic to his old political rival. It’s not clear what unseen evidence Giuliani claims to have or why he has been hiding it for years. He has admitted to lying to the media as well as not vetting his evidence and just using stuff he’s found online.

Given the bedroom claim, however, people began making jokes about an infamous Giuliani moment in another bedroom, when he became an unwitting star in Sacha Baron Cohen’s film “Borat 2.”

Giuliani thought he was being interviewed in a hotel suite by a right-wing news personality. When it was over, he went into the bedroom, leaned back on the bed and stuck his hands down his pants. He later said he was tucking in his shirt.

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