For all the good he is trying to do, the only thing Rudy Giuliani does is dig Trump a bigger hole.
Late Monday night, the press wire started to blow up that Rudy Giuliani admitted that he āneeded Yovanovitch out of the way.ā
Did He Really Say That?
Giuliani was talking to Adam Entous, a reporter for the New Yorker.
The quote that is getting blasted out there is pretty damaging for both Trump and Giuliani.
The former New York Mayor stated, “I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way.
“She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.ā
The reason this is so bad for Trump is that it gives credence to the Democrat position that Ambassador Yovanovitch was removed solely because she was roadblocking the investigations into the Bidens.
Damage Control
Now, what we donāt have as of yet is the full context of the quote, which could significantly reduce the damage being done here.
My best guess is that Giuliani was speaking to the fact that even though there was evidence of some wrongdoing here, Yovanovitch clearly had not intent on looking into it.
After all, we know the administration had prepped her on how to answer questions about Hunter Biden and Burisma, so Giulianiās concern here was legitimate.
Even so, it is time for Trump to cut ties with Giuliani.
He has regularly made mistakes in the media and offered up quotes like that to give more steam to the accusations being made by Democrats.
Now, he is about to unveil āevidenceā that was discovered in an investigation he personally conducted with Ukrainians, some of whom have a massive umbrella of corruption still hanging over their own heads.
Giuliani made his reputation as a man that went after corruption and was able to expose it, but right now, his mere presence is hurting Trump far more than he is helping him.