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'It’s hard to fight a tape': The View doesn't think Rudy Giuliani can wiggle out of latest lawsuit
| Quote: | The co-hosts of "The View" brought up the recently filed lawsuit from a former employee of Rudy Giuliani's that alleges sexual harassment.
Former staffer Noelle Dunphy claims that she recorded many interactions between herself and Giuliani. Speaking to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Monday evening, her attorney, Justin Kelton, said that several witnesses could corroborate her allegations.
Among the claims are some explicit sexual encounters and demands from Giuliani. It happened at the same time that she was to monitor his emails. That requirement led co-host Joy Behar to laugh over the irony after a campaign that focused so much on Hillary Clinton's emails.
"She has 23,000 of his emails that he gave her his password," said Behar. "Really not that smart, Rudy! He let her follow him around and videotape everything that he was saying. She has the receipts!"
Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin noted that the complaint was 70 pages and includes graphic details.
"When you read about the sexual acts he was doing, you won't believe how stupid he is," said Behar.
"It's so horrible," Hostin agreed. "Just think about it. He offered to pay her a million dollars per year for consulting work but told her he had to defer paying her until he settled his divorce from his third wife, Judith, and it was an opportunity too good to pass up. Sometimes when they sound too good ..."
Some of the alleged requirements were that his sexual needs be met, and she was told to wear short American flag shorts, co-host Sara Haines read. "Now that's a red flag."
"That's a red, white, and blue flag!" noted former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin. "This makes me sad because there was a time when Rudy Giuliani was America's mayor. On the Republican side, he tried to reunite the country after 9/11. He raised $216 million with the Twin Tower Fund. He was someone that, at one point, he was esteemed, but things have dipped in the last few decades. By the way, this stuff never happens in a vacuum. If he was doing it now, he was probably doing it then. Where's his family? Why aren't his kids, like, hey, father?"
Hostin read the legal disclaimer that Giuliani denies the accusations and plans to fight the complaint.
But it was Whoopi Goldberg that closed the segment, noting that it's often difficult when things have been recorded on tape or in writing.
"Well, ya know, it's very hard to fight a tape," Goldberg explained. "It's very hard to fight a tape. But I see people trying all the time so, it'll be interesting television!"
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could be about 300k in fines because he will not turn over the discovery documents. IE including his emails/texts to people like Mark Meadows.
If you have nothing to hide why are you hiding everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwhV6lZ_Asg
Federal Court ISSUES MASSIVE SANCTIONS ORDER against RUDY
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-election-workers-who-faced-death-threats-ask-judge-to-hit-giuliani-with-severe-sanctions/ar-AA1dLZfS?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=d3723af14c9342cdb4789485338b3b1b&ei=79
Georgia election workers who faced death threats ask judge to hit Giuliani with “severe” sanctions
| Quote: | Two Georgia election workers have alleged in new court filings that Rudy Giuliani did not share critical evidence in an ongoing defamation suit against Donald Trump's former personal attorney. Atlanta poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss launched the lawsuit after it was determined that Giuliani advised Trump ally Boris Epshteyn via text to tell the former president about security camera footage of the two women shuffling ballots around, which Giuliani said would "live in history as the theft of the state." Since late 2020, the women have faced a barrage of attacks from MAGA supporters, stoked by Giuliani and Trump's public reference to the women and claims of election fraud.
Now, amid the legal battle, Freeman and Moss have alleged that Giuliani ignored court orders mandating him to share his correspondence with Epshteyn, asking in the new brief that a U.S. district judge impose "severe" sanctions on Giuliani in the hopes that they will be granted a total victory in the suit via "default judgment." Freeman and Moss's attorneys have stated that the evidence they received in relation to the suit did not come from Giuliani, but from other witnesses and Trump allies. "He failed to take any steps to preserve relevant electronic evidence," the lawyers said, adding that Giuliani has blamed the Justice Department for seizing and reportedly wiping his electronic devices. He has also cited difficulty accessing his iCloud account, per Politico.
"The requests by these lawyers were deliberately overly burdensome, and sought information well beyond the scope of this case—including divorce records—in an effort to harass, intimidate and embarrass Mayor Rudy Giuliani," Giuliani's political adviser Ted Goodman said in a statement to Salon. "It's part of a larger effort to smear and silence Mayor Giuliani for daring to ask questions, and for challenging the accepted narrative. They can't take away the fact that Giuliani is objectively one of the most effective prosecutors in American history who took down the Mafia, cleaned up New York City and comforted the nation following 9/11." |
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the supreme court recently ruled to the effect if your lie endangers a person you can be criminally charged. This should be done immeadiately now that this scum of the earth admitted liar,, IE definition of todays republicans in power.
Well here it is he lied to get right wingers to threaten and want to harm these two.
Lock the clear and present danger to democricy up... for life he was a prosecutor he knows what his lies do like that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/us/politics/giuliani-georgia-election-workers.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20230726&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline®i_id=115919677&segment_id=140306&user_id=f730a3b9531f5b2c781c5ff7996dd05c
Giuliani Concedes He Made False Statements About Georgia Election Workers
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Rudolph W. Giuliani has conceded that while acting as a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, he made false statements by asserting that two Georgia election workers had mishandled ballots while counting votes in Atlanta during the 2020 election.
The concession by Mr. Giuliani came in court papers filed on Tuesday night as part of a defamation lawsuit that the two workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, had brought against him in Federal District Court in Washington in December 2021.
The suit accused Mr. Giuliani and others of promoting a video that purported to show Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss — who are mother and daughter — of manipulating ballots while working at the State Farm Arena for the Fulton County Board of Elections.
In a two-page declaration, Mr. Giuliani acknowledged that he had in fact made the statements about Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss that led to the filing of the suit and that the remarks “carry meaning that is defamatory per se.” He also admitted that his statements were “actionable” and “false” and that he no longer disputed the “factual elements of liability” the election workers had raised in their suit.
But Mr. Giuliani, insisting that he still had “legal defenses” in the case, said that he continued to believe his accusations about Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss were “constitutionally protected” under the First Amendment. He also refused to acknowledge that his statements had caused the women any damage — a key element required to collect a judgment in a defamation case. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/giuliani-claims-the-first-amendment-lets-him-lie-3-essential-reads/ar-AA1erHOZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=740b15d73f404c70a144d2115c494ee3&ei=16
Giuliani claims the First Amendment lets him lie – 3 essential reads
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In his response to a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers who said Rudy Giuliani harmed them by falsely alleging they mishandled ballots in the 2020 presidential election, Giuliani has admitted lying. But he says the women suffered no harm – and claims that his lies are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Conversation U.S. has published several articles by scholars explaining what the First Amendment – which, broadly speaking, protects freedom of speech and the press – does and doesn’t say. That includes how it can and can’t be used to protect speech about political controversies, and whether speech that harms or threatens to harm another person is protected. Here is a selection from among those articles.
It may be upsetting to see – but that’s part of the point of burning a flag, and a key reason it’s protected by the First Amendment.
It may be upsetting to see – but that’s part of the point of burning a flag, and a key reason it’s protected by the First Amendment.
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1. Not all speech is protected
The First Amendment’s protections are not absolute, wrote Lynn Greenky, a communications scholar at Syracuse University.
“When the rights and liberties of others are in serious jeopardy, speakers who provoke others into violence, wrongfully and recklessly injure reputations or incite others to engage in illegal activity may be silenced or punished,” she wrote.
“People whose words cause actual harm to others can be held liable for that damage,” she noted. That’s what the Georgia election workers are claiming in their lawsuit.
Lying about people and bullying them can have consequences despite free-speech protections, Greenky explained: “Right-wing commentator Alex Jones found that out when courts ordered him to pay more than US$1 billion in damages for his statements about, and treatment of, parents of children who were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.”
Read more: What the First Amendment really says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the US
2. Defaming someone can be costly
Jones is not the only defamation defendant who has found lying costly. Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for spreading lies about its voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Rather than go to trial, Fox settled for $787 million.
But communication scholar Nicole Kraft at The Ohio State University warned that if the case had gone to trial, proving defamation might have been difficult.
“To be considered defamation, information or claims must be presented as fact and disseminated so others read or see it and must identify the person or business and offer the information with a reckless disregard for the truth,” she wrote.
Another key question, she observed, is the amount of damage the statements do. “Defamation happens when someone publishes or publicly broadcasts falsehoods about a person or a corporation in a way that harms their reputation to the point of damage,” she wrote.
In his recent court filing, Giuliani appears to be saying the election workers weren’t harmed by his statements.
But they are claiming they were harmed, including that they received threats and hateful and racist messages from people in the wake of Giuliani’s allegations.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that some false statements are ‘inevitable if there is to be open and vigorous expression of views.’
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that some false statements are ‘inevitable if there is to be open and vigorous expression of views.’
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3. The case could be easier
It’s not clear whether Giuliani has claimed to have been a politician at the time he made the false statements about the Georgia election workers. But he was functioning as a personal attorney and representative of Donald Trump, who is definitely a politician.
Allowing politicians to lie with impunity can be dangerous for democracy, warned Drake University constitutional scholar Miguel Schor:
“The First Amendment was written in an era when government censorship was the principal danger to self-government,” he wrote. “Today, politicians and ordinary citizens can harness new information technologies to spread misinformation and deepen polarization. A weakened news media will fail to police those assertions, or a partisan news media will amplify them.”
Schor found a potential solution in a 2012 opinion by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, which said laws and courts should be able to penalize not just the harms caused by speech but also “false statements about easily verifiable facts.” |
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hahahahaha another right wing hero is going down... the tapes show his friends were just liars saying she is lying... She needs to sue them too. Ya right wingers believe the first amendment allows them to lie... Right wingers are born to lie... and they defend it..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-giuliani-employee-files-audio-transcripts-in-harassment-suit/ar-AA1eLlGR?cvid=3fd073abc0e0419afc4a78e8079fd158&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=18
Former Giuliani employee files audio transcripts in harassment suit
| Quote: | Audio transcripts filed in a New York court as part of a former employee's lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani depict him making sexually vulgar remarks to her as well as expletive-strewn comments on topics ranging from Jewish men to the movie star Matt Damon.
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who served as an attorney and adviser for former President Donald Trump, is being sued by Noelle Dunphy, a former employee accusing him of "sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct." She is seeking $10 million in damages. The transcripts of audio recordings were submitted to New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday.
In one exchange with Dunphy, Giuliani said, according to the transcripts: "I want to own you, officially." In another, he said, "I'm gonna make it a little painful."
The transcripts also detail Giuliani allegedly making repeated comments about the size of Dunphy's chest, followed by this exchange:
MR. GIULIANI: These breasts belong to me. Nobody else can get near these, okay? I don't care if they're flirting or they give you business cards. These are mine, you got it?
MS. DUNPHY: Yes.
MR. GIULIANI: Understand? I'm very f****ng possessive. I've gone easy on you.
MS. DUNPHY: I don't know.
MR. GIULIANI: I've been easy on you.
MS. DUNPHY: You're pretty tough on me.
MR. GIULIANI: I've been easy on you. Give them to me.
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Giuliani also talked about his "tremendous attraction" to Dunphy, and says: "I'd never think about a girl being smart. If you told me a girl was smart, I would often think she's not attractive," according to the transcripts.
The transcripts also include Giuliani allegedly venting about the Jewish holiday of Passover. "They want to go through that freaking Passover all the time," he said. "Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago. Okay, the Red Sea parted. Big deal. Not the first time that happened."
Elsewhere, according to the transcript, he's recorded as saying: "Jewish men have small [sex organs] because they can't use them after they get married. Whereas the Italian men use them all their lives so they get bigger."
In an exchange with Dunphy about Republican celebrities, Giuliani said, "Ain't too many. Brad — not Brad Pitt. The other guy that looks like him."
When Dunphy brought up Matt Damon, Guiliani replied: "No, Matt Damon is a — Matt Damon is a f**. Matt Damon is also 5'2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo."
Ted Goodman, a political adviser to Giuliani, disputed Dunphy's allegations in the lawsuit. In a statement Thursday, he said: "This was a consensual relationship. Ms. Dunphy has a documented history of making harassment claims against men for the purpose of making money, which has been reported in-part by the New York Post. Ms. Dunphy's history of this sort of behavior is well documented and available through public records."
"It's disappointing to see some so-called 'journalists' stoop so low with these smears and attacks against a man who has dedicated his life to serving others," Goodman said.
The initial 70-page complaint was filed in May by Dunphy, who was hired by Giuliani in January 2019 to work on the business development side for his firm.
"He made clear that satisfying his sexual demands —which came virtually anytime, anywhere— was an absolute requirement of her employment and of his legal representation," the complaint reads. It also says that he demanded "that she work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her."
In a statement at the time, a spokesperson for Giuliani said he "unequivocally denies the allegations raised by Ms. Dunphy."
"Mayor Giuliani's lifetime of public service speaks for itself and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims," Goodman said in that statement.
An attorney for Dunphy, Justin Kelton, said in a statement to CBS News that "Mr. Giuliani is not the first powerful man accused of sexual abuse towards subordinates who attempts to smear his accuser in a discredited game of blame the victim."
"He will have to answer to materials and recorded statements that will be presented at trial," Kelton added. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-questions-giuliani-over-not-forfeiting-lawsuit-after-conceding-false-2020-election-statements/ar-AA1eQ01m?cvid=5f65ba8352a344beb1143aafb5a4a776&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=24
Judge questions Giuliani over not forfeiting lawsuit after conceding false 2020 election statements
| Quote: | Afederal judge on Friday demanded an explanation from Rudy Giuliani as to why he conceded in court that he made false and defamatory statements about two Georgia election workers after the 2020 election but hasn’t forfeited their lawsuit against him.
It’s the latest legal difficulty that Giuliani has faced related to his spreading of disinformation on former President Donald Trump’s behalf – and the latest instance of a federal judge considering severe sanctions for Giuliani over the Georgia defamation case.
A loss in the case could have significant implications for Giuliani, especially financially.
In a court filing last month, Giuliani acknowledged that he had made defamatory statements about the election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, though he stopped short of conceding that his statements caused damages to the pair. Giuliani also said in the July filing that he still wanted to argue that his statements about voter fraud in Georgia were protected by free speech.
Giuliani has until Tuesday afternoon to either forfeit the lawsuit, conceding he is liable and opening himself up to pay the ballot-counters’ damages, or give Judge Beryl Howell more explanation and appear before her for a hearing in mid-August.
Following Giuliani’s concessions, Howell ordered him to pay more of Moss and Freeman’s legal fees after previously ordering him to pay them $90,000.
Giuliani also appeared, unnamed, as one of six co-conspirators in the Justice Department’s criminal conspiracy allegations against Trump this week. Prosecutors described co-conspirator 1 as an “attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that (Trump’s) 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.” The indictment also includes quotes that match quotes from Giuliani’s call intended for GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville as the US Capitol riot unfolded on January 6, 2021.
The former New York City mayor and his attorney, Robert Costello, met with special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators in June, CNN exclusively reported at the time, though it is unclear what investigators’ questions focused on during the meeting. Giuliani’s political adviser Ted Goodman told CNN that the interview was voluntary.
Giuliani hasn’t been charged but the special counsel’s office has given signals that it is still investigating, including by setting an interview with Bernie Kerik, a close Giuliani associate.
CNN’s Shawna Mizelle and Marshall Cohen contributed to this report. |
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wow oh wow... rudy has a sexual lawsuit by his employee who he made work with no clothes, he is indicted in election fraud and he has a case for lying about two election workers that he already admitted he lied about. right wingers lie when their mouths move. And are proud of their liars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/giuliani-defamation-georgia.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20230830&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=115919677&segment_id=143273&user_id=f730a3b9531f5b2c781c5ff7996dd05c
The ruling means that a defamation case against Mr. Giuliani, stemming from his role in seeking to overturn the 2020 election, can proceed to trial.
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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Rudolph W. Giuliani was liable for defaming two Georgia election workers by repeatedly declaring that they had mishandled ballots while counting votes in Atlanta during the 2020 election.
The ruling by the judge, Beryl A. Howell in Federal District Court in Washington, means that the defamation case against Mr. Giuliani, a central figure in former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to remain in power after his election loss, can proceed to trial on the narrow question of how much, if any, damages he will have to pay the plaintiffs in the case.
A lawyer for Mr. Giuliani declined to comment.
Judge Howell’s decision came a little more than a month after Mr. Giuliani conceded in two stipulations in the case that he had made false statements when he accused the election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, of manipulating ballots while working at the State Farm Arena for the Fulton County Board of Elections.
Mr. Giuliani later sought to explain that his stipulations were solely meant to get past a dispute with Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss about discovery evidence in the case and move toward dismissing the allegations outright. But Judge Howell, complaining that Mr. Giuliani’s stipulations “hold more holes than Swiss cheese,” took the proactive step of declaring him liable for “defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy and punitive damage claims.”
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The lawsuit filed by Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss in December 2021 was among the first to be brought by individual election workers who found themselves dragged into the alternate universe of right-wing politicians and media figures who claimed that Mr. Trump had won the election. The two women had originally sued other defendants, including the One America News Network and some of its top officials, but ultimately settled the case against everyone except Mr. Giuliani.
Last year, Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss appeared as witnesses at a public hearing of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 and told the story of what happened after Mr. Giuliani amplified the false claims that they had pulled thousands of fraudulent ballots from a suitcase in their vote-counting station and illegally fed them through voting machines.
Although Fulton County and Georgia officials immediately debunked the accusations, Mr. Giuliani kept promoting them, ultimately comparing the women — both of whom are Black — to drug dealers and calling during a hearing with Georgia state legislators for their homes to be searched.
Mr. Trump invoked Ms. Freeman’s name 18 times during a phone call with Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, on Jan. 2, 2021. In the call, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Raffensperger to help him “find” nearly 11,800 votes — enough to swing the results in Georgia from the winner, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
“I’ve lost my name, and I’ve lost my reputation,” Ms. Freeman testified to the House panel, adding as her voice rose with emotion, “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?” |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-whistleblower-suspected-giuliani-was-a-russian-dupe-but-doj-stifled-probe-report/ar-AA1g6MyI?cvid=545111990e7a4a22a020e4ab239fe0ea&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=26
FBI whistleblower suspected Giuliani was a Russian 'dupe' – but DOJ stifled probe: report
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An FBI whistleblower came forward with his suspicions that Rudy Giuliani “may have been compromised” by Russian intelligence while working as Donald Trump's campaign lawyer and adviser, but he claims the bureau stifled his concerns.
FBI agent Jonathan Buma sent a 22-page letter in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that the former New York City mayor had been used as an asset by a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Kremlin intelligence and other Russian operatives to spread disinformation in an effort to discredit Joe Biden, reported Mother Jones.
"A source familiar with his work tells Mother Jones that other potential FBI whistleblowers who participated in the investigation involving Giuliani have consulted the same lawyer as Buma and might meet with congressional investigators in coming weeks," reported Dan Friedman and David Corn. "That attorney, Scott Horton, declined to comment."
Giuliani was indicted last month on racketeering charges in Georgia, where he just lost a defamation case, and he faces a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems and a rape complaint filed by a former assistant, but Buma's statement suggests Trump's former campaign lawyer may have somehow avoided even more trouble.
"It is widely known that Giuliani tried mightily to unearth and disseminate dirt on Biden in Ukraine — particularly regarding the unfounded allegation that as vice president Biden squashed an investigation of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company for which his son Hunter was a director," Friedman and Corn wrote. "This smear campaign led to Trump’s first impeachment and resulted in a federal investigation into whether Giuliani violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Prosecutors ended that probe last year."
Buma alleges that officials with the Department of Justice and the FBI blocked his efforts to investigate Giuliani's ties to Ukrainian developer Pavel Fuks, who federal agents determined to be a “co-opted asset” of Russian intelligence, and the FBI agent claims that Fuks maintained an indirect connection to Giuliani through Ukrainian diplomatic official Andriy Telizhenko after 2019.
"Giuliani’s role in Trump’s coup attempt and his string of public humiliations may overshadow the Ukrainian chapter in Giuliani’s downfall," wrote Friedman and Corn. "But, according to Buma and various U.S. intelligence findings, Giuliani apparently was a dupe — a useful idiot — for suspected Russian operatives and propagandists. And the bureau, Buma says, investigated this — until it didn’t."
Buma also reveals that he examined whether Russian operatives or assets assisted Giuliani's 2020 effort to make a film about Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, which has become a central focus of House Republicans after they retook the majority at the start of this year -- but the FBI whistleblower says they passed on his findings when approached in April.
"Earlier this year, Buma watched with keen interest as the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee geared up for public hearings into the Biden Administration’s alleged political 'weaponizing' of the F.B.I. The Republicans claimed that the Bureau had relentlessly pursued former President Trump and his allies while neglecting leads about the Bidens," the New Yorker reported two weeks ago, when Buma's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee first leaked.
"In April, Buma reached out to [House Judiciary Committee chair Jim] Jordan’s office, offering public testimony as a whistle-blower," the New Yorker added. "He later gave a detailed phone interview to two former federal agents whom the committee had hired to investigate what its conservative members call 'the Biden family business.'" |
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needless to say this whistleblower was never front page... this was before Biden was even the dem nominee. He discovered rudy getting 300k from a Russian-associated oligark. gee then he after great reviews for 15 years is getting poor evaluations and as he puts it transferred to Alaska so he could no longer investigate rudy... again when pediophile trump was in office. .
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-agent-rudy-video/
Watch: FBI agent says he was punished for sharing evidence on Rudy Giuliani's Russian ties
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An FBI agent whistleblower who came forward with his suspicions that Rudy Giuliani “may have been compromised” by Russian intelligence claims in a new interview that the bureau stifled his concerns and retaliated against him.
Raw Story previously reported that FBI agent Jonathan Buma sent a 22-page letter in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that the former New York City mayor had been used as an asset by a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Kremlin intelligence and other Russian operatives to spread disinformation in an effort to discredit Joe Biden.
Now, Buma is speaking out in an interview published by Business Insider. In the interview, he outlines what allegedly happened after he attempted to share the information discrediting Giuliani.
You can watch the interview in full below or click the link.
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