Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that the former personal attorney for President Trump, Michael Cohen, has “destroyed himself as a witness.”
“I should say I feel sorry for him. He’s destroyed himself as a witness,” Giuliani, a member of Trump’s legal team, said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Fox News’ Chris Wallace called out Giuliani for his flip-flopping remarks about Cohen, noting in May he called him “honest and honorable.”
“What happened?” asked Wallace.
“I found out, as everyone else did,” Giuliani said, “that he was surreptitiously recording his clients, which is a disbarrable offense. Obviously if I knew that, I never would have said he was a reputable lawyer, I’d have said he was a scoundrel.”
“I’d never prosecute a case on this guy’s testimony. He’s contradicted himself so many times,” he added, but said the Trump team is not “at war” with Cohen.
Trump has accused Cohen of “making stories up” and Giuliani has labeled Cohen a “pathological liar.”
Cohen has fielded attacks from Giuliani and the Trump team after the New York Times reported earlier this month that Cohen had taped a conversation with Trump about a payment he made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal for the rights to her story claiming an affair with Trump.
CNN obtained and aired the audio last week.
A recorded conversation between CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Cohen was then made public, during which Cohen talks about the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump in 2006.
Giuliani said Sunday that Trump is “disappointed” Cohen secretly recorded him, but that he has been convinced the tapes show his innocence.
“We’ve assured him, in a very strange way, this is a very good development for us,” Giuliani said.
CNN also reported this week that Cohen claims that then-candidate Trump knew about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, and that he is willing to make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller.
Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links with the Trump campaign.
[Opinion: CNN’s infamous Michael Cohen tape of Trump has zero useful information]
