Giuliani, Trump Doc, Dig Deeper Hole

What does former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Attorney Ty Cobb, and Dr. Harold Bornstein have in common? They’ve each just made life that much more difficult for Donald Trump.

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In March, Donald Trump blasted The New York Times for reporting what he called the “fake news” that Ty Cobb was not happy as a member of Trump’s legal team and could soon step aside.  However, on Wednesday, Ty Cobb did, in fact, remove himself from the Trump defense delegation, proving The Times exactly right in their story that all was not well in Trump paradise.

Then, in an attempt to confirm his claim that he only hires “the best people,” Donald Trump added former NYC Mayor and political ass kisser Rudy Giuliani to his legal squad earlier this week.  However, by Wednesday evening, Trump was likely already regretting that decision.

In his first interview since joining the Trump legal club, Giuliani stunned Sean Hannity of Fox News by admitting that Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen (his personal lawyer) the $130,000 hush money he paid porn star Stormy Daniels — which was in direct contradiction to what Donald Trump previously stated.

Here is the shocking exchange between Hannity and Giuliani:

GIULIANI: Having something to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman $130,000? Which, I mean, is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. That money was not campaign money. Sorry, I’m giving you a fact now that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money. No campaign finance violation.

HANNITY: They funneled it through a law firm.

GIULIANI: They funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it.

HANNITY: Oh. I didn’t know that. He did.

GIULIANI: Yep.

HANNITY: There’s no campaign finance law.

GIULIANI: Zero. Just like every — Sean, Sean —

HANNITY: So this decision was made by —

GIULIANI: Everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. I wasn’t. I knew how much money Donald Trump put into that campaign, and I said, “$130,000? He could do a couple of checks for $130,000.”

When I heard of Cohen’s retainer for $130,000, he was doing no work for the president. I said, “Well, that’s how he’s repaying it, with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael.

HANNITY: But you know the president didn’t know about this?

GIULIANI: Ah, he didn’t know about the specifics of it, as far as I know. But he did know about the general arrangement, that Michael would take care of things like this. Like, I take care of this with my clients. I don’t burden them with every single thing that comes along. These are busy people.

Quickly realizing Giuliani had just admitted on national television that Donald Trump basically paid Stormy Daniels hush money via his attorney and a law firm (to cover his tracks), Hannity attempted to give Giuliani a “do-over” to retract the incredibly damning statement. However, instead of changing his tune, Rudy simply doubled down.

GIULIANI: I was talking about the $130,000 payment —

HANNITY: Right.

GIULIANI: The settlement payment, which is a very regular thing for lawyers to do. The question there was, the only possible violation there would be: Was it a campaign finance violation? Which usually results in a fine, by the way, not this big stormtroopers coming in and breaking down his apartment and breaking down his office. That was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law firm funds or whatever funds — it doesn’t matter — and the president reimbursed that over the period of several months.

Here’s the problem with Giuliani’s admission: Because Cohen admitted he paid off Stormy Daniels to help Donald Trump’s chances in the 2016 election and because Giuliani has now admitted Trump “reimbursed” Cohen the $130,000 payment to the adult-film actress, campaign finance experts say this could significantly strengthen the criminal case against both Cohen and Trump for failing to properly disclose the payment.

It was yet another high-profile goof from Rudy Giuliani, who seems to be an expert at making them.

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Giuliani’s incredible admission came only a day after “The Donald’s” former doctor admitted to lying about Trump’s health.

When Dr. Harold Bornstein used bizarre prose to describe then-candidate Donald Trump’s health back in 2015, the language was eerily similar to the style of his patient. Now, there’s a very valid explanation for that.

According to Bornstein, Trump actually wrote the health letter himself.

“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,” Bornstein confessed. “I just made it up as I went along.”

The pretend doctor’s note spoke of Donald Trump in glowing terms and was suspiciously absent of any sort of professional medical vernacular.

“His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” the letter boldly stated. “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

The letter went on to say that Trump’s blood pressure was “astonishingly excellent” and that because of his 15-pound weight loss, Trump’s cardiovascular health was also “excellent.” His physique was even compared to that of professional football player Tim Tebow.  Yeah, right!

Now, Dr. Bornstein has admitted that the entire letter was a fraud and its wording was a lie.

“I was just rushed for time,” Bornstein said. “I had people to see.”

With this week’s antics from Rudy Giuliani, Ty Cobb, and now Dr. Bornstein, Donald Trump is almost certainly thinking: “With friends like this, who needs enemies?” However, the triple threat of bad news against “The Donald” is only the tip of the iceberg for what is about to come.

Stay tuned…

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