Rudy Giuliani on Trump’s Former Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen
#RudyGiuliani 5/6/18: "❲Michael Cohen❳ is an honest, honorable lawyer." » #Giuliani 7/26/18: "❲Cohen❳ is an inherent, pathological liar." Click To Tweet
Rudy Giuliani on Trump’s Former Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen
THEN
May - Early July 2018

- May 6, 2018
ABC This Week interview
ABC News, May 6, 2018
Here's Rudy Giuliani on May 6, 2018, saying Michael Cohen "is an honest, honorable lawyer." (Last night, Giuliani told @ChrisCuomo that Michael Cohen is a "pathological liar" who can't be trusted.) pic.twitter.com/PBZTkujgDX — Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 27, 2018
'This Week' Transcript 5-6-18: President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti
- July 8, 2018
ABC This Week interview
ABC News, July 8, 2018
Pres. Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Michael Cohen: “As long as he tells the truth, we’re home free… Michael’s not going to lie. He’s going to tell the truth. As long as he does that, we have nothing to fear” https://t.co/3yy7lTW6GJ #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/JB0P5O4yCA — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 8, 2018
'This Week' Transcript 7-8-18: Trump Adviser on Judicial Nominations Leonard Leo, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and President Trump’s Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani
- July 8, 2018
ABC This Week interview
ABC News, July 8, 2018
Giuliani on whether he is concerned that Michael Cohen will flip on Pres. Trump: “I have no concerns that Michael Cohen is going to do anything but tell the truth and if he does, as I said, there’s no suggestion that anything happened” https://t.co/LEjDQ0Nhtt #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/qHJUrgM7Fc — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 8, 2018
'This Week' Transcript 7-8-18: Trump Adviser on Judicial Nominations Leonard Leo, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and President Trump’s Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani
NOW
Late July 2018

July 26, 2018 -
Cuomo Prime Time interview
CNN, July 26, 2018
Transcript: Cuomo Prime Time - Aired July 26, 2018
July 26, 2018 -
Cuomo Prime Time interview
CNN, July 26, 2018
Transcript: Cuomo Prime Time - Aired July 26, 2018
July 29, 2018 -
Fox News Sunday interview
Fox News, July 29, 201
Rudy Giuliani takes aim at Michael Cohen's credibility
July 29, 2018 -
Face the Nation interview
CBS News, July 29, 2018
“I don’t see how you can believe Michael Cohen, he’s also the guy that taped [President Trump] without telling him… To my surprise he turns out to be almost an instinctual liar,” Giuliani tells @FaceTheNation. pic.twitter.com/BqvuEkGEpq — CBS News (@CBSNews) July 29, 2018
Transcript: Rudy Giuliani on 'Face the Nation,' July 29, 2018
#RudyGiuliani 7/8/18: "❲Michael Cohen is❳ going to tell the truth." » #Giuliani 7/26/18: "❲Cohen will❳ lie like crazy because he’s lied all his life." Click To Tweet
Context
Rudy Giuliani‘s about-face on Donald Trump‘s former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen‘s integrity followed reports that Cohen said Trump knew in advance about the June, 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Donald Trump Jr. and other members of the Trump campaign expected to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a “Russian government attorney.” Trump continues to deny advance knowledge of the meeting.1CNN, July 26, 2018
Transcript: Cuomo Prime Time – Aired July 26, 2018
retrieved 7/26/182Donald Trump (Twitter), July 27, 2018
“…..I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!”
retrieved 7/26/18
Giuliani’s reversal also followed the surfacing of a September, 2016 recording between Trump and Cohen that Cohen secretly recorded where Trump and Cohen are heard discussing paying to obtain rights to potentially damaging information about Trump from David Pecker, who is a friend of Trump’s and publisher of the National Enquirer and other publications, including a story by former Playboy model Karen McDougal. McDougal wrote a story about her alleged 10-month affair with Trump that began soon after the birth of Trump’s child with his third wife Melania; Pecker bought the rights to the story before the 2016 election and suppressed its release. Trump has repeatedly denied having extramarital sexual relations with McDougal and other women.3Washington Post, July 20, 2018
In secret recording seized by FBI, Trump and Cohen discuss buying rights to model’s account of alleged affair
retrieved 7/26/184Vox, July 25, 2018
The Trump-Cohen tape, explained
retrieved 7/26/18