We don’t hear all that much from Rudy anymore. We heard plenty after the election, including the fact that he’d tell “white lies” as part of election strategy, it was – in his view, acceptable. Even Fox couldn’t accept someone who admitted to lying in interviews and thus we haven’t had a chance to get the old boy’s views on things… much.

But Newsmax will still have him on and we suspect he just told Newsmax one of those little white lies that are okay to tell amidst an election campaign (because Trump is always running.)

Trump’s biggest problem from now until the day he dies (assuming he isn’t criminally charged and we are, unfortunately, assuming such) is that he’s forever tied to Putin and will never get himself untied. As Trump’s loyal spokesperson and someone desperately wanting Trump to pay for his legal bills, Rudy did all he could to enhance Trump’s laughable “tough on Putin” meme.

Trump formally authorized Rudy to talk about some deep state secrets, attacking churches:

“He authorized me to say this, that’s why I’m saying it because I’m his lawyer. So, he has a meeting with Putin and he tells him, they’re talking about Ukraine and he says, ‘Vladimir, you shouldn’t, like, attack Ukraine, cause then I’m gonna — well I never liked those — what are those things you’ve got in Moscow? Those big bubbles. Those big gold bubbles. I never liked those things. So, I’m going to have to blow them up.”‘

“So, Putin says, ‘They’re churches.’ And he said, ‘Oh, Vladimir. Don’t tell me that about churches. Oh, comon. Churches?'”

Yes, Russian Orthodox. And someone let this man be president? And Rudy was authorized to tell one whopper of a lie. Because, yeah – great idea, go to war with a country and immediately start blowing up their churches.

Trump was sure tough on Putin.

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