Rudi Giuliani and Donald Trump deserve each other

Every time Rudi Giuliani speaks out as Donald Trump's lawyer he puts his size 10 feet into his mouth. I never know whether he is telling the truth, the real truth and nothing but the truth or whether he is just making it up as he goes along. He and his client, the president of the United States, deserve each other. They speak in the same careless way, saying one thing one day and changing it another. This weekend Giuliani was all over the television chat shows, dismissing the claim that Trump had ordered his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timing of discussions with the Russians about building a Trump Tower in Moscow. Giuliani, a former heaven-help-us Republican presidential candidate, then came out with a blockbuster admission. He said discussions about building a Trump Tower had carried on until October or November 2016! Polling day for the presidential election in 2016 was November 8. So was the Moscow project live on the day Trump was elected president? Michael Cohen initially told a closed-door session of Congress that the talks had ended in January 2016 but then during conversations with Robert Mueller, the special counsel, he admitted they might have continued until June. Now here is Giuliani saying, well actually the Trump Tower project was still under discussion with the Russians in late 2016, by which time Trump was in the final stage of his presidential election campaign. But the big question is, was Trump himself involved or did he leave it all to Cohen without checking how things were going? Giuliani was adamant that it was Cohen talking to the Russians in October/November; and Trump himself said some time ago he had nothing to do with the discussions because he was by then heavily involved in campaigning for the presidency. But where did Giuliani get his facts from? He clearly didn't talk to Cohen because he's in jail, serving three years. So he must have spoken to Trump and asked him whether he could remember when the talks with the Russians stopped. Robert Mueller must have watched Giuliani on TV with an open mouth, probably turning to his wife and saying "but but but..." Only a few days ago Mueller did something he has never done. He got his spokesman to say that the BuzzFeed newspaper website story claiming Trump had ordered Cohen to lie to Congress was "not accurate". I assume he did this because Cohen had never said at any point, "Oh and Trump told me to lie to Congress about the timing of the discussions with Moscow about the Trump Tower project". Mueller must have believed Cohen because rubbishing a media allegation is pretty dodgy unless you are absolutely sure of your ground. BuzzFeed said their story was based on two law enforcement sources involved in the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Mueller effectively said these two sources were wrong. So, one up for Trump and bad news for Buzzfeed. But then Giuliani stirs the pot once again, as he always does, by admitting the Russian talks went on for much longer than had previously been admitted by Cohen or anyone. What are we to make of this? Who knew at the time that there were still discussions going on with the Russians about a Trump Tower in October or November 2016? Did Trump know? Was it just Cohen? Did he or did he not whisper in Trump's ear as he campaigned for the presidency: "Mr Soon-To-Be President, Moscow is pretty keen for this wonderful hotel. What shall I tell them?" Whenever asked, Trump has always dismissed the Moscow project as nothing really serious, just an idea, and he decided to scrap it all anyway. So no big deal, in fact no deal at all! But Giuliani's confession on TV says otherwise. If it was such a non-event, why were talks still going on in November 2016? Why, Mr Giuliani? Why, Mr Trump?