Rudy Giuliani Isn't the Shadiest Lawyer in the Trump-Ukraine Scandal
For the past few months, Rudy Giuliani has chewed up screen time and headlines at a rate he hasnt seen in nearly two decades. With every development surrounding President Trumps unprecedented efforts to strong-arm Ukraine, theres Giuliani, keening on cable news, pushing outlandish claims about Joe Bidens supposed corruption in Ukraine, pumping out conspiracies and butt-dials alike. Indeed, no American this side of Trump has played such a central role in the unfurling impeachment saga as Giuliani.
But Giulianis not the lone American spearheading the smears against Biden. Hes had help from Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, a husband-and-wife lawyer team directly connected to every other major player in Trumps impending impeachment, including a man the United States previously described as an upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime. And like Giuliani, they have avoided registering any of their recent foreign work with the Justice Department. Understanding their roleand their spiraling relationships with all the other major players on both sides of the Atlantic involved in the ongoing impeachment revelationsmay well be the key to getting a handle on how we ended up here in the first place.
Toensing and diGenova first gained notoriety during the Clinton administration, when the former federal prosecutors became sought-after commentators during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At the time, the pair were regular fixtures on cable news, speaking out against Bill Clinton, and were even at the center of a retracted story about the Secret Service supposedly witnessing compromising actions between Clinton and Lewinsky. The couples legal work picked up, ranging from representing a former congressman who reportedly demanded campaign contributions from foreign lobbyists to helping lead probes into illegal fundraising on behalf of Democrats.
Just trying to keep track of their multiple roles is enough to induce a migraine.
https://gen.medium.com/rudy-giuliani-isnt-the-shadiest-lawyer-in-the-trump-ukraine-scandal-14cb9f7c6ceb
dchill
(38,471 posts)Officers of the court. My ass. I wonder if they're even licensed to practice.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)than Rudy, if that's possible.
Gothmog
(145,126 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)including Barr. And Sekulow, and McGahn, etc. etc. etc. I would like to see all of them Disbarred.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)for Rudy.
dalton99a
(81,444 posts)The DOJ wont say how Brady Toensing got the job, but the entire family has close ties to Trump. In 2016, Brady Toensing served as Trumps Vermont campaign chair.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/brady-toensing-justice-department/
Ford_Prefect
(7,884 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)But, I expected no less from hair trumpenfurher
.