Current Events > Giuliani used to think you had to be an idiot to not think this was bribery.

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Giuliani reached out to Fruman and arranged a phone call with Lutsenko. It was the middle of the night in Kyiv when they spoke, Lutsenko told me. Giuliani recalled, I got pretty angry at him on the phone. He told me that he thought Lutsenko should have brought a case against former Vice-President Biden for briberyan idea apparently based on Bidens threat that he would withhold a billion dollars in I.M.F. loans unless Shokin was fired.

I said, Have you ever read your goddam bribery statute? Giuliani told me. Let me read it to you. He went on, This takes a mental midget to do one plus two equals crime. You dont need to be a lawyer, Yuriy, you just need to be an honest man. According to Lutsenko, Giuliani kept on repeating bribery, bribery, in a loud and agitated voice. Lutsenko said that he told Giuliani that the bribery assertion didnt make any sense to him. If Giuliani was correct, then anytime a state withholds something of value from another state to get something it wants, which happens all the time, it could be accused of bribery. According to Lutsenko, Giuliani responded by saying, Im a lawyer, youre not.

Man I wonder what changed between 2015 and now to cause him to totally 180 his entire view....

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