.MaddowBlog: Trump changes his story about dispatching Giuliani to Ukraine
"Here's my choice: I deal with the Comeys of the world, or I deal with Rudy," Trump said, referring to James Comey, who gave him a "very bad taste" of the capabilities of American intelligence after the former FBI director maintained the independence of the agency in the early days of the administration. Thus, Trump had to "use" Giuliani to solicit foreign interference in an American election.
For one thing, if the president's Ukraine scandal were as innocuous as he likes to pretend, it's curious that he's felt the need to lie about it. And finally, note how the president framed his explanation for using Giuliani: Trump didn't want to have to"deal with the Comeys of the world." Or put another way, the sitting American president dispatched a partisan operative to eastern Europe to dig up dirt on a domestic opponent, which those rascally officials at the FBI wouldn't have agreed to do.
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