'Was He Supposed To Do That?': White House Scrambles as Rudy Giuliani 'Pulls a Trump'

[DonViejo]

The former New York City mayor has introduced a new layer of chaos to a White House already drowning in it.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
05.03.18 7:08 PM ET

Even for a White House defined by intense disorder, the tumult kicked up by Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday night and Thursday morning has been viewed internally as staggering.

In one softball interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s new lawyer managed to contradict his new client’s public statements, potentially open him up to new legal jeopardy, undercut weeks’ worth of strategy and communications devised by Trump’s senior staff, and do it all without consulting, and to the utter bewilderment of, top officials in the West Wing.

Some of those senior aides watched Giuliani’s interview in real time wondering what the hell was going on.

“Was he supposed to do that?” one blindsided White House official said, when asked about Giuliani’s comments on Wednesday evening shortly after the interview aired.

It’s still not entirely clear what the answer is. Giuliani’s comments provided little additional clarity and culminated in even more drama: an NBC News report that the feds had tapped the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s besieged personal attorney and longtime fixer who also recently gave legal advice to Hannity. Even Giuliani was caught Link to tweet
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[Girard442]

1. LOL. Trump now has to deal with someone just like himself.

[Cha]

2. K&R

[Blue Owl]

3. The Art of the Squeal

n/t

[janx]

4. OMG !!

Forced to adapt to a changing storyline, White House allies and media surrogates began suggesting that there was a hidden brilliance to the former New York mayor’s performance. The Giuliani interview, former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), a prominent Trump surrogate, told The Daily Beast, was “a lot more disciplined than people give it credit for.”

“While everyone is talking about the [Michael Cohen] retainer, [Rudy] was also sending a signal to the Mueller team, as far as I could see,” Kingston said. “There was stuff in there beyond the Michael Cohen-Stormy Daniels discussion that everybody is focusing on. And I think an experienced guy like Rudy who… knows how to get the public’s attention, underneath the sizzle, I think there was some really serious stuff that was out there. For example... he said [fired FBI Director James] Comey was a liar, and surely you’re not gonna use him as a credible witness.”