Presidentvalet 2016 (USA)

While his firm has been on the PAC payroll, Giuliani has been fanning the flames of every Clinton controversy. But he has made it clear that he thinks the Clinton Foundation issues are the worst, saying on Fox this week: “This was the one I always thought was clearer.” Invoking his history as a federal prosecutor, Giuliani said he could make a case against the Clintons on the foundation “in two months.” The foundation has long been a fixation of the Mercers as well. They fund the Bannon-led non-profit Government Accountability Institute whose president, Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash,” an innuendo-strewn book about the foundation that apparently became fodder for a probe initiated by FBI agents from the New York office earlier this year. Rebekah Mercer serves on the Institute’s board and co-produced, with Bossie, a documentary based on the book that was released just before the Democratic National Convention.

Giuliani confirmed in a Fox interview Friday what the Beast reported Thursday—namely, that he has been talking to agents about the Clinton cases. He didn’t say if he’d told those agents that his firm represents a Trump super-PAC run by one of Trump’s biggest donors, the Mercers, who’ve given at least $15.5 million. Or that his firm’s clients include Trump and the Kushners. Giuliani described his conversations with “outraged agents” as if they were one-sided exchanges, with agents complaining about FBI and Justice Department brass blocking legitimate probes for political reasons, and him just taking it in. “I did nothing to get it out,” he said today, referring to the Comey letter renewing the email probe and subsequent leaks that have rocked the presidential campaign. Later that day, though, he said that he had spoken only to retired agents.