For some time now, most of us have been amazed that Donald Trump could say one thing on Monday, the opposite on Tuesday…and then on Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders would be out there suggesting that any charge of a contradiction was indicative of a biased, dishonest media. Now we have that latest in a will-be-getting-longer list of lawyers contradicting everything he said a few days ago regarding the James Comey and Stormy Daniels matters.
I am speaking, natch, of Rudy Giuliani, a man who — yes, I know it's hard to believe — once stood for a certain amount of integrity. Now, he'll do anything for Trump except, apparently, get his story straight. In the last few days, it's changed more times than most parents have changed diapers. He puts out one set of facts and then, if it doesn't work, don't worry — because he's got another. And then another and another.
William Saletan, Matt Yglesias and Ben Mathis-Lilley all express their bewilderment at the sloppy lawyering going on here. It sounds to me like Donald and Rudy worked it out without consulting experts…then Rudy went out and began spreading that version…
…and then when all these legal scholars weigh in and say "Giuliani has gotten Trump into more trouble than before," Rudy and Donald get on the phone and one of them says, "Okay. Let's come up with something else."
I realize a lot of Trump backers really don't care about this stuff…or who he cheated with or what he lies about or how he personally profits, just as long as a liberal does not move into his seat of power. But they've got to be worried that all this is making that world-destroying change more likely. And they've got to know that this will never end; that we'll be hearing things that Trump will try to brush away as "Fake News" every remaining day of his presidency and for years after. And now, this…