Eyebrow-raising as it was for Rudy Giuliani to claim that Donald Trump’s powers as President were so extensive that he could have chosen to end the Russia investigation by shooting then-FBI Director James Comey rather than merely firing him and not been criminally prosecuted, it also brought his career serving Presidents back to where it first took off.
While Mr. Giuliani was celebrated for his work in getting a corrupt Detective to cooperate in the “Prince of the City” saga of the late 1970s, he got the job he coveted because of his willingness as the third-ranking U.S. Justice Department official to make the argument in court on behalf of President Ronald Reagan that Haitians seeking asylum in the U.S. were really pursuing greater economic opportunity rather than fleeing political oppression by the murderous Duvalier regime.
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