Can you purposefully lie to the media? Yes, generally, probably, but some of those lies can become really expensive if they defame the wrong person/company with the wrong lie, as Rudy knows better than anyone due to the Dominion lawsuits. But Rudy admitted to the FBI that he lied about the FBI  and it wasn’t about something insignificant. According to the WaPo:

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s promise of a “big surprise” to help Donald Trump’s election in October 2016 led to Democratic accusations the FBI was feeding him secrets about an investigation of Hillary Clinton.

But a newly obtained transcript shows the former New York mayor told federal agents it was okay to “throw a fake” when campaigning, to which his then-law partner added, “there’s no obligation to tell the truth.”

Giuliani’s comments came in a 2018 interview with agents for the Justice Department inspector general, conducted in a room at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington. The Project on Government Oversight, a government watchdog group, sued for a copy of the interview transcript and provided it to The Washington Post on Wednesday.

Throwing a “fake” is lying. Rudy can call it whatever he wants. The interesting thing is he lied about something critically important that critically hurt someone, the Hillary campaign, and the organization he talked about got hurt by the lie because now the FBI looks a little bad, too. The promise about an October surprise wasn’t linked with Comey’s decision to write the letter because Comey only got the information ten days before he wrote the letter. Rudy’s promise was earlier before he knew anything.

But in our speculation, we have no doubt that some Rudy loyalists in the FBI (that existed back then) who hated Hillary, could have been feeding him “suspicions,” “theories,” stuff nowhere near proven, and never was. It is easy to recall Rudy walking around talking about emails and Hillary the entire campaign, and how damaging those lies turned out to be in a razor-sharp (by small margins of victory across three states in the Midwest) election.

There is no one to sue, but damn, this sounds so criminal, sooo Rudy. Perhaps this is, in part, why no one believes him about anything anymore.

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