Giuliani Doubles Down on Comparing FBI to Nazi Stormtroopers: ‘They Prove it Every Day’

On Thursday, President Donald Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani doubled down on his comparison of federal agents to storm troopers during an interview with The Daily Beast. 

The previous evening, during an explosive interview with friend and Fox host Sean Hannity, Giuliani said this, referring to the Michael Cohen FBI raid: “The question there was — the only possible violation there would be, was it a campaign finance violation, which usually would result in a fine by the way not this big, stormtroopers coming in and breaking down his apartment, and breaking down his office.”

The implied Nazi reference rubbed James Comey, among others, the wrong way.

Yet in response to the NBC report that federal authorities had wiretapped Cohen’s phones, the former New York City mayor defended his remarks and insisted the investigation was indeed “out-of-control” and thus his claim was on the mark.

“Anybody who says that I’m exaggerating when I say that this is an out-of-control investigation and they’re acting like storm troopers––give me a break, baby! They prove it every day,” Giuliani ranted in the same Daily Beast interview where he insisted the FBI “can’t wiretap a lawyer” and questioned if NBC’s report was true at all.

In a separate interview with The Hill also released on Thursday, Giuliani also insisted that his stormtrooper remarks had nothing to do with Nazis.

“There are stormtroopers all over,” he said, adding, “If you don’t like it, don’t act that way.”

He also called on “defender of justice” Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in and investigate the federal authorities behind the Cohen wiretapping which, according to his Daily Beast remarks, may not have happened at all.

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