{"id":132410,"date":"2019-11-23T18:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=132410"},"modified":"2019-11-23T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:06:50","slug":"its-all-out-war-between-team-trump-and-team-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=132410","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all-out war between Team Trump and Team Biden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rudy Giuliani says he&#8217;s not afraid of being indicted, labels Joe Biden a &#8216;liar&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/694940094001_6108039896001_6108047215001-vs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/694940094001_6108039896001_6108047215001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"931\" height=\"524\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/694940094001_6108039896001_6108047215001-vs.jpg 931w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/694940094001_6108039896001_6108047215001-vs-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/694940094001_6108039896001_6108047215001-vs-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Julia Musto | Fox News<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Trump&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0personal attorney and former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/vacation-destinations\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York City<\/a>\u00a0Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/g\/rudy-giuliani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rudy Giuliani<\/a>\u00a0said Saturday that he is not afraid of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/michael-cohen-heads-to-prison-in-trump-hush-money-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being indicted<\/a>\u00a0and that he has absolutely no business interest in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Appearing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/media\/fox-news-flash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;America&#8217;s News HQ&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0with host Ed Henry, Giuliani said that the &#8220;case has been really simple\u00a0from the day that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0confessed to committing bribery in 2018.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Although, he said precisely what was attributed to President Trump a year and a half later&#8230;Basically, they&#8217;ll prove that he committed bribery,&#8221; he said during the wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Giuliani said that the &#8220;reality is you&#8217;d have to be a fool&#8221; to think Biden &#8220;didn&#8217;t know that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/hunter-biden-interview-ukraine-dealings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his son was under investigation.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0The founder of the company Hunter Biden worked for is currently under investigation, but there is no evidence he himself is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden-lindsey-graham-trump-hunter-biden-documents-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, Biden said that\u00a0he is &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; for his former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate<\/a>\u00a0colleague\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/lindsey-graham\">Lindsey Graham<\/a>, R-S.C., over his request\u00a0for documents pertaining to Hunter Biden&#8217;s time on the board of natural gas company Burisma Holdings and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s remarks drew a response on Twitter from Giuliani who wrote that Biden&#8217;s comments amounted to &#8220;a threat to a U.S. Senator,&#8221; and reminded the former federal prosecutor of &#8220;my old mafia cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden: Lindsey Graham will \u201cregret his whole life\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of Biden\u2019s decree to the media to silence me on September 29th.<\/p>\n<p>Now a threat to a US Senator. This is getting to be more and more like my old mafia cases. They sure do sound like crooks.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudyGiuliani\/status\/1197992624180867072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden-lindsey-graham-trump-hunter-biden-documents-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BIDEN FUMES AT GRAHAM OVER REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS ON SON; GIULIANI BLASTS &#8216;THREAT TO A US SENATOR&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giuliani told Henry that Biden sounded like a &#8220;poor imitation of &#8216;The Godfather,'&#8221; adding that Biden wanted to fight with the president &#8220;every other week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what he said. He&#8217;s lying. He&#8217;s been lying all his life,&#8221; Giuliani told Henry. &#8220;Every place that Joe Biden was a point man&#8230;the Biden family came away with millions. And nobody wants to look at it because the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington<\/a>\u00a0press corps protects him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Giuliani&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-lev-parnas-impeachment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former associate Lev Parnas<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/lev-parnas-giuliani-ukraine-investigate-bidens-lawyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleaded not guilty<\/a>\u00a0to federal campaign finance violations earlier this month\u00a0&#8212; is now claiming that he traveled to\u00a0Kiev shortly before the inauguration of Zelensky\u00a0to demand the new administration publicly announce an investigation into the Bidens.<\/p>\n<p>Parnas&#8217; lawyer\u00a0confirmed to Fox News that his client told Ukrainian officials that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/mike-pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vice President Mike Pence<\/a>\u00a0would not attend the swearing-in of the new president and the United States would freeze aid to the Eastern European nation if the demands were not met.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\" data-widget-type=\"embed\" data-video-id=\"6097160148001\" data-video-domain=\"foxnews\"><a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6097160148001\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.foxnews.com\/BrightCove\/694940094001\/2019\/10\/23\/694940094001_6097159679001_6097160148001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"Two men linked to Rudy Giuliani plead not guilty to federal campaign finance violations\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The claim by Parnas, who has been preparing to testify in the House Intelligence Committee\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-impeachment-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impeachment inquiry<\/a>\u00a0into President Trump, directly challenged the accounts by Trump and Ukrainian officials that have been\u00a0at the heart of the congressional probe.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani said that the lawyer&#8217;s comments are untrue and that Parnas is &#8220;trying to make himself very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never had that meeting with the president,&#8221; he said,\u00a0adding that Parnas &#8220;got himself into a grandiose thing&#8221; and he could potentially &#8220;make himself into another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/michael-cohen-reports-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Cohen<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani also denied a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/federal-prosecutors-probe-giulianis-links-to-ukrainian-energy-projects-11573837576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent Wall Street Journal report<\/a>\u00a0stating that he would personally profit from a natural gas pipeline in Ukraine was false and that he was &#8220;not going to financially profit from anything that [he] knows of in the Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t keep up from the amount of false information printed about me,&#8221; he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you afraid, Mr. Mayor, that you could be indicted?&#8221; asked Henry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think I&#8217;m afraid?&#8221; Giuliani shot back. &#8220;I did the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that he has absolutely no &#8220;business interest&#8221; in Ukraine, and that it was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who had first brought him up in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/president-trump-agrees-to-meet-ukraines-zelenskyy-without-preconditions-white-house-transcript-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July phone call<\/a>\u00a0with President Trump because of his &#8220;reputation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani said that he wanted to &#8220;exculpate&#8221; his client.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is ridiculous. [The President] know what I did was\u00a0order to defend the president &#8212; not to dig up dirt on Biden. This goes back a year ago before Biden [had] even decided to run for president,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My thought when I began investigating this was to get evidence that will help my client prove that the charges against him aren&#8217;t true,&#8221; Giuliani said.<\/p>\n<p>He predicted that &#8220;they&#8217;re ultimately going to prove&#8221; that this was a conspiracy to frame the president in which high-level Democrats and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House<\/a>\u00a0staff participated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News&#8217; Charles Creitz, Andrew O&#8217;Reilly, and John Roberts contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-indicted-joe-biden-liar\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-indicted-joe-biden-liar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani says he&#8217;s not afraid of being indicted, labels Joe Biden a &#8216;liar&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132414,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132410\/revisions\/132414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}