President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday called former national security adviser John Bolton a “backstabber” in response to explosive claims about Mr. Trump and the pause in aid to Ukraine. Giuliani also expressed disbelief that Mr. Trump had ever told Bolton the release of military aid to Ukraine was contingent upon Ukraine investigating the president’s political rivals.
“He never said to me, ‘I’ve got a problem with what you are doing in Ukraine,'” Giuliani said in an interview with CBS News. “Never once, never winked, never sent me a little note. He is a personal friend, I thought. So here’s the only conclusion I can come to, and it’s a harsh one, and I feel very bad about it: He’s a backstabber.”
When confronted with the seriousness of leveling such a claim against a former administration official, Giuliani doubled down.
“It’s not serious, it’s true. If your friend was complaining about you behind your back and didn’t have the guts to come up to your face and tell you, “I think you’re screwin’ up, Catherine,” that’d be a backstabber. That’s classic backstabber. So I feel I got a swamp character here.”
“I find his testimony about the president pretty close to incredible,” Giuliani added. “I can’t imagine that the president of the United States said that to him.”
That is, uhm, not helpful to the president.
Lol.