Giuliani Clarifies ‘Truth Isn’t Truth’ Comment: ‘Not Meant as a Pontification on Moral Theology’

President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani raised the nation’s eyebrows yesterday when during an impassioned debate with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, he proclaimed “truth isn’t truth!” Given Trump’s past comments that “what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening” and Kellyanne Conway’s infamous “alternative facts” comment, many laid into this administration’s obvious obfuscation of objectivity as a last tactic in a lowing political war over the Mueller investigation.

This morning, the former New York Mayor cleaned up his Sunday morning comment with a tweet that clarified the intended meaning of his comment:

My statement was not meant as a pontification on moral theology but one referring to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory statements, the classic “he said,she said” puzzle. Sometimes further inquiry can reveal the truth other times it doesn’t.

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 20, 2018

Despite the awkward turn of phrase of “truth isn’t truth,” reasonable viewers of the Meet the Press segment should have understood immediately what Giuliani had intended as he made clear that the former FBI Director James Comey and Donald Trump have diametrically opposed accounts of an alleged Oval Office conversation in which Trump asked Comey to “go easy” on former NSA Director Michael Flynn, an issue that lies at the heart of any potential charge of presidential obstruction of justice.

Or as Giuliani tweeted, he was referencing “the classic ‘he said, she said’ puzzle.”

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