Anderson Cooper Destroys Guiliani’s ‘Cohen is a Liar’ Hypocrisy: ‘Maybe it’s like Truthful Hyperbole’

On Friday, Anderson Cooper opened up his CNN show by calling out Donald Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani for his claim that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is a liar and has been for years after previously praising him as an honest man.

Cooper started by playing a clip of Giuliani casting Cohen as a perennial liar just after the news dropped that Cohen said Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting involving Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

“I expected something from this from Cohen,” Guiliani said.”He has been lying all week… He has been lying for years.”

Cooper, though, pointed out undermining the credibility of your client’s own previous lawyer was not exactly the smartest move, especially if, like Giuliani did, you had previously praised Cohen as an honest man.

“‘Lying for years,’ he says, which is strange because that means Michael Cohen must have been no less a liar when Rudy Giuliani was praising him for not being liar,” Cooper explained. “So was Mr. Giuliani lying in that clip you just heard or lying in this one from just a couple of months ago?”

He then played a clip from a few months ago, with Giuliani saying this: “The man is an honest, honorable lawyer.”

Cooper then concluded, “It all becomes clear right now. It’s confusing, to say the least. The honest honorable lawyer has also been deeply dishonest for years, or at least this week. Maybe it’s like truthful hyperbole or something. Or maybe like so much else these days is yet another thing that would be funny if it weren’t so serious.”

Watch above, via CNN

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