Rudy Giuliani and Trumpworld Raged as 'Career Criminal Liar' Michael Cohen Spilled Secrets

It was former Trump fixer Michael Cohen's turn in the barrel on Wednesday.

Asawin Suebsaeng, Will Sommer

02.27.19 9:40 PM ET

As Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer-turned-Trumpworld pariah, spent hours on Capitol Hill Wednesday recounting his old boss’s penchant for corruption and deceit, Donald Trump’s current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, took notes.

Sitting alone, watching live coverage of Cohen’s testimony on TV, the former New York City mayor dashed off insta-reactions to reporters via text. The messages were a form of real-time rapid response with a dash of character assassination—an attempt to diminish the man who was speaking before millions, threatening the president of the United States.

“He is a career criminal liar,” Giuliani wrote of Cohen at one point. “He is demonstrably unable to tell the truth.”

“ just pointed out the numerous articles saying he and his father-in-law were alleged to be associated with organized crime,” Giuliani added, defending his salvos against Cohen’s family. “Also they allege there were allegations about his wife. If there was a threat then [it was] not from President [Trump] or me but if true from organized crime.”

Not that Cohen was kind to Giuliani. In his opening remarks to the House Oversight Committee, Cohen referred to Giuliani derisively as Trump’s “TV lawyer.”

TV lawyer or not, Giuliani expressed shock at Cohen’s admission that he taped Trump several times when he was working as Trump’s counsel.

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