Analysis: Giuliani says those 700 prosecutors shouldn’t opine on a case they didn’t investigate. He should tell that to Rudy Giuliani.
Rudy Giuliani wipes his head before President Trump arrives to speak at the White House. By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 8 at 11:40 AM President Trump’s legal spokesman Rudolph W. Giuliani is hitting back against the more than 700 former federal prosecutors who say the evidence against Trump is sufficient for criminal charges.
In a text to The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky, Giuliani expressed exasperation with prosecutors making such calls. “What prosecutors would offer a gratuitous opinion on a case they didn’t investigate?” Giuliani asked rhetorically.Giuliani’s suggestion that it is out of bounds for former prosecutors to take such stands is completely at odds with his own commentary in recent years. Giuliani, a high-ranking Justice Department prosecutor throughout the 1980s, has called for prosecutions of and/or outright alleged crimes committed by several people, including Hillary Clinton, James B. Comey and Michael Cohen.
One also wonders what Giuliani thinks of Attorney General William P. Barr making a decision not to accuse Trump of criminal activity — even though Robert S. Mueller III disagreed — in a case he did not investigate.
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