Critics erupted Sunday after Rudy Giuliani insisted that any discussion that may have occurred between President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen concerning Cohen’s testimony before Congress would be “perfectly normal.” George Conway , the husband of top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, blasted it as “perfectly insane” for the potential target of an investigation to be talking about testimony with a witness. “Perfectly normal?” It’s perfectly insane for witnesses in or subjects of a criminal investigation to be discussing testimony. I’m trying to imagine what the reaction of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1988 would have been to this “perfectly normal” assertion—and just can’t. https://t.co/FlNP2GC2TZGiuliani told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday that as far as he knows, Trump did not direct Cohen to lie during his congressional testimony in 2017 — as BuzzFeed has reported — about Trump’s negotiations regarding a Trump Tower Moscow deal during his presidential campaign. But he also conceded it’s possible the men discussed the testimony before it occurred, which he said would be “perfectly normal.” If it did happen, he asked, “So what?”

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2019 02:26 UTC