Conway was commenting on tweets Giuliani published on Wednesday revealing he had hired lawyers to represent him regarding his contact with two men facing campaign finance violation charges.
The men, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, introduced Giuliani to Ukrainian officials. According to Guliani, he met with the men in an effort to defend Trump from “false charges” and that the meetings were conducted in his role as the president’s personal attorney.
“The investigation I conducted concerning 2016 Ukrainian collusion and corruption, was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges, that kept changing as one after another were disproven,” Giuliani tweeted on Wednesday.
“The evidence, when revealed fully, will show that this present farce is as much a frame-up and hoax as Russian collusion, maybe worse, and will prove the President is innocent,” Giuliani continued, adding that his new lawyers were Robert Costello, Eric Creizman and Melissa Madrigal.
However, some reports have said Giuliani participated in the meetings to uncover dirt on Democratic opponents, including 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Crooked Media editor-in-chief Brian Beutler quote tweeted Giuliani’s first post and wrote: “Rudy’s criminal defense will almost by definition strengthen the case for impeachment, and step on bad-faith Republican defenses that Trump tried to leverage Ukraine to advance legitimate U.S. interests, as we see here.”
George Conway quote tweeted Beutler and wrote, “this is exactly the point.”
“Rudy seemingly believes that his best defense is that he was merely defending his client’s personal interests by acting as a defense lawyer,” Conway tweeted. “That’s devastatingly incriminating for Trump, in terms of both impeachment and the criminal law.”
Conway retweeted a reply from Talking Points Memo editor and publisher John Marshall offering an example to support his thought. Marshall wrote that if a JPMorgan Chase CEO’s personal lawyer was sabotaging the company to defend the CEO under the CEO’s orders, “that would obviously be a breach of his duties to JPM.”
Adding to Marshall’s example, Conway tweeted that the same applied to a salesman using a company credit card to throw a big personal party.
“If the company catches you, you get fired, and they report you to the cops,” Conway wrote.
Conway criticizes Trump on a daily basis even though his wife, Kellyanne Conway, is Counselor to the President and one of Trump’s longest-serving officials and adamant defenders.
