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Dershowitz: Rudy Giuliani may have used an inartful phrase when he said, "truth isn't truth", but he was absolutely right. Say the president were to be asked the question, "did you discuss Flynn with Comey?" and he says "No." Let's assume that's truthful for a moment. But Comey says "Yes". Or let's assume the president is asked, "Did you know about the meeting in Trump Tower" and he says "no" but then Cohen says "yes". So you have two statements that can't both be true. But we're human beings. We're not sure we can determine what's true or not. The prosecutors may decide that the truth is with Cohen and Comey and not with the president. That's why we defense lawyers call that a "perjury trap." You never allow your client to answer a question truthfully if someone else will answer the question differently and that person may be believed over the truthful answer. That's what Rudy was trying to say. Inartfully put, but the point of it was something every defense attorney would agree to.
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