‘Who made it up?’ Rudy Giuliani wants heads to roll after Mueller shoots down Russia collusion allegation and demands to know ‘who paid for it’ and ‘who fueled it’
- President’s lawyer says the pendulum should swing away from Russia ‘collusion’ to uncovering the people who fueled the theory
- ‘Who made it up? It had to come from somewhere. It just didn’t come out of thin air,’ he asked
- Giuliani appeared on ‘Fox & Friends’ the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller reported the collusion narrative was baseless
- He wants Democrats and pundits who claimed for two years that Trump stole his election to ‘have the decency to say, “I was wrong. I made a mistake”‘
Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani demanded to know Monday who was responsible for promoting the ‘cockamamie’ theory that the president conspired with Russians to steal the 2016 election and then tried to obstruct a federal investigation into his actions.
‘The question now is: If there was no evidence of collusion – three investigations, no evidence of collusion – who made it up? It had to come from somewhere. It just didn’t come out of thin air,’ Giuliani said in a ‘Fox & Friends’ interview.
‘I want to know who did it, who paid for it, who fueled it. Because the person who did it, and the group that did it, knows it’s untrue – because they invented it.’
Giuliani spoke a day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller reported that the ‘collusion’ theory was unfounded.
Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney to Donald Trump, said Monday that he wants to know who was responsible for funding and fueling a conspiracy theory about the president colluding with Russians to swing the 2016 election
Trump and the White House celebrated a vindication on Monday after Special Counsel Robert Mueller determined that no Americans at all colluded with Russia
Trump, he claimed, ‘has been absolved, vindicated, exonerated, you pick the word.’
And now, Giuliani said, the pendulum could swing in the direction of probing the president’s adversaries who applied pressure inside the Justice Department.
In an editorial Monday, The Wall Street Journal concluded that ‘someone may have conned the FBI into one of the great dirty tricks in American political history.’
‘Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!’ Giuliani responded to a live reading of that line. ‘And you’re going to find out, believe me, who it was.’
He offered no hints, saying only that ‘we’re still working on it. I’ve got some theories and there’s a lot more than theories going on.’
‘Just pay attention,’ Giuliani said. ‘I think we are in a era of a real Justice Department, where just because you have a “D” after your name –Democrat, you know – or “Clinton” or something like that, you still can be held to account.
He also said of a long list of Democrats who have insisted the president and his 2016 campaign colluded with the Kremlin: ‘If they are decent people they will now apologize.’
Asked if that would happen in the light of Mueller’s conclusions, he replied: ‘I think they are shameless. I have seen them already ignore it.’
‘You would think they would have the decency to say, “I was wrong. I made a mistake”,’ Giuliani added.
‘He didn’t do any of this. The man is an innocent man,’ he said of the president.
‘To see him go through this was horrible, just as a friend,’ he added. ‘To see him go through it as the President of the United States really broke my heart as a patriot.’