Major Newspapers may have just given Rudy Giuliani a defense.

[Gomez Adams]

Over the last few days since the raid of Rudy Giuliani's residence and business office, the major newspapers had reported that Rudy Giuliani (along with OAN news) had been warned by the FBI that the people they were dealing with were in fact Russian operatives.

Well, they've had to retract that statement as it turns out to be false. Found in the small type only articles is this:

Washington Post, New York Times, and NBC News retract reports on Giuliani

The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC News on Saturday issued significant corrections, retracting earlier reporting that said Rudy Giuliani had been directly warned by the FBI that he was the target of a Russian disinformation campaign.

www.cnn.com

Relevant text:

NBC News said in its correction that its story "was based on a source familiar with the matter, but a second source now says the briefing was only prepared for Giuliani and not delivered to him, in part over concerns it might complicate the criminal investigation of Giuliani."

One could argue that it's the FBI's fault. After all, they knew all along that Rudy was talking to a Russian operative and that the operative could be giving Rudy false information, but they did nothing to act on it.

It's going to be interesting to see if that comes back to bite the FBI right in the ass.

 

[Zeedox]

Rudy went looking for it.

Nobody led Rudy by the nose to the mountain.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Here's the problem with that:

Rudy announced to everyone that would listen that he was looking for dirt on Hunter Biden and Burisima. There is no crime in doing that.

The FBI however, knew that some of the people he was talking to were Russian operatives with ulterior motives.

Knowing that, the FBI put together an entire package to warn Rudy, but they never did.

So in court, one could argue that the FBI are at fault. After all, Rudy announced his intentions to the world. He was on a legitimate mission. That Russian operatives approached him and gave him bogus information he believed to be true isn't his fault.

The FBI knew all along what was happening, and rather than warn him about it they decided to sit on their warning and try to arrest him later for it.

That is textbook entrapment.

Entrapment is defined as: law enforcement presenting a situation where a citizen is tempted to break the law when he otherwise wouldn't.

Rudy went out looking for information. The FBI knew that and knew the people giving it to him were not only Russian operatives, but operatives giving out bogus information.

This information was so radical and unbelievable that Rudy acted on it.

The FBI created that entire situation, sat back and watched it all happen.

I can guarantee you that will be bought lot, stock and barrel by more than one if not all jurors in his trial.

 

[Zeedox]

Rudy announced to everyone that would listen that he was looking for dirt on Hunter Biden and Burisima.

And there's the end of your argument.

You, yourself just said it - Rudy went looking.

The FBI didn't coerce him - Rudy looked on his own.

 

[Gomez Adams]

But what he was looking for wasn't a crime. It wasn't a crime until he unwittingly started dealing with Russia operatives.

As an officer of the court, he will be given the benefit of any doubt.

The FBI should have alerted him. The courts will not look favorably on the FBI for that. Nor will any jury worth their oath.

Unless, of course, the FBI knows something we don't, which is highly likely.

But based on what we know, the FBI should have warned an officer of the court exactly who he was dealing with.

Had Rudy pursued it after that, he'd deserve whatever happened to him.

Rudy is not an intelligence expert. He's a lawyer. He'll take what he's told at face value, especially if it's what he wants to hear.

The FBI knew that and set him up for it rather than warn him.

 

[Zeedox]

The FBI has a duty to warn every officer of a court?

Seems to me Rudy missed doing his own due diligence.

 

[Gomez Adams]

The FBI has a duty to warn every officer of a court?

Seems to me Rudy missed doing his own due diligence.

Again, due diligence doesn't incorporate having the CIA, NSA and FBI doing your research for you.

There's a reason the FBI put the package together for Giuliani. A good reason at that.

Deciding not to give it to him because you think it'll help your case?

Yeah. That's wrong. Flat out.

 

[Zeedox]

So Rudy goes to play with known pigs and gets muddy and it's the FBI's fault?

Forgive me but that sounds like something trump would say.......

 

[Gomez Adams]

Again, to Rudy, they weren't "known pigs".

He was taking to former members of the board of Burisima and the former attorney general of Ukraine.

It's easy to monday morning quarterback the situation now, but at the time how was he to know they had become Russian operatives?

None of us even knew that until Lev Parnas and his associates were arrested.

 

[Zeedox]

Again, to Rudy, they weren't "known pigs".

He was taking to former members of the board of Burisima and the former attorney general of Ukraine.

It's easy to monday morning quarterback the situation now, but at the time how was he to know they had become Russian operatives?

None of us even knew that until Lev Parnas and his associates were arrested.

Believe me I know the next day is always 20/20.

I just think he dug his own hole by advertising he was looking for "material". He got crap and was burned by it - no one forced 'said crap' into his hands under gunpoint; he gleefully accepted it.

 

[Gomez Adams]

I'm sure that's the case they're going to make. We'll see if it winds up holding water.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Bullshit man.

As an officer of the court he should never have been doing that shit to begin with. He should have hired a private investigator to look into it for him. He fucked up because he wanted the spotlight again like he had after 911. He long ago abandoned any oath he ever took.

Between all the Biden bullshit the Parnas bullshit and the fake stolen election bullshit that bastard deserves everything he's going to get.