Trump calls out Rudy Giuliani’s show to praise him as “the first to know about the laptop”

Former President Donald Trump called Rudy Giuliani and ended up going on the air during a live broadcast, where he credited his former attorney for being the “first to know” about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Trump also told the former New York mayor that he had seen Republican Sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson testify at Republican Rep. Jim Jordan’s hearing on the “weaponization” of government.

He called it the ‘armament of justice’ and a ‘disgrace’.

“It certainly has never happened like this before in the history of the country,” Trump said.

He praised Giuliani’s role in shutting down Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, a day after Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell sent “litigation hold” letters to 14 people, including Giuliani, as part of a new legal ploy. aggressive.

‘Yeah. It is the militarization of justice. That is a misfortune. It just never happened. It certainly has never happened like this before, never in the history of the country,” Trump said of the hearing, which followed another Republican House hearing on Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

They put you through hell, but you were the first to know about the laptop. You were the first guy out. You were right about everything. You never got credit for that, Rudy, but now you get it,” Trump said.

The on-air call appeared to take place after Trump called Giuliani, whom he has known for decades, though there were reports. in his last days in office, Trump expressed concern about some of Giuliani’s moves and refused to pay legal fees.

‘Is that a call from Donald Trump?’ Giuliani asked producer and adviser to him Ted Goodman when he received a call while on the air Thursday night.

Former President Donald Trump called Rudy Giuliani as he recorded his live broadcast and went on the air.

Credited Giuliani for being the ‘first to know’ about Hunter Biden’s laptop

Trump said he was with New York Yankees president Randy Levine and Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy when he called.

I can’t interrupt our show. We love him, but he is not the president at the moment, ”Giuliani said at the beginning. ‘Would the president like to say something? We will put it.

He then held up his cell phone, which listed ‘Donald Trump’ in his phone’s address book, in front of a microphone and spoke to the president for a hearing.

“I’m sitting here with Randy Levine of the Yankees and Chris Ruddy and it’s like a love fest talking about Rudy. And I’m happy to say it any way you want,” Trump said, referring to the Yankees owner and Ruddy, a Mar-a-Lago insider who is chief executive of conservative news outlet Newsmax.

Giuliani, who promoted the effort to overturn Trump’s election through the conservative media, called Ruddy “our only hope.”

Would you give Ruddy some Secret Service protection or something? she teased herself.

“I will, I promise,” Trump said.

‘Because we lose them, we will be dead. We will be dead,” Giuliani said.

“He’s done a great job with Newsmax,” Trump said.

Lowell, who is one of the lawyers representing Biden, wrote to Giuliani and others amid a more aggressive legal push as House Republicans prepare their investigations.

‘This letter…constitutes notice that a litigation hold should be placed for the preservation and retention of all records and documents relating to Mr. Biden,’ she wrote to people who ‘have made various statements and have engaged in certain activities by his own admission, or that have been publicly reported in the media, in connection with our client, Robert Hunter Biden.’

Giuliani, who was taping the show from Palm Beach, told Trump, “We’ll probably be there for dinner tomorrow night,” referring to Mar-a-Lago.

He called it the “best place to dine in Palm Beach” during his live broadcast.