Donald Trump has repeatedly denied knowing about the $130,000 payout to his alleged former mistress, the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. However, he’s new lawyer former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani went on Fox News last night in order to say that, in fact, Donald Trump paid back his lawyer Michael Cohen for the payout of hush money. Now the Trump administration is facing criminal charges. At a certain point, you have to ask, what are these guys thinking?

NBC News reported with great fanfare their exclusive story that Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was wiretapped by the feds. As it turns out, he wasn’t. But that didn’t lead them to walk back all their breathless analysis.