President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani put out a tweet on Monday trying to clarify what he meant when he said a day earlier that "truth isn’t truth."
"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," Giuliani wrote on Twitter. "Sometimes further inquiry can reveal the truth other times it doesn’t."
Giuliani made his Sunday remarks during an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" when he sought to belittle special counsel Robert Mueller's probe by saying "When you tell me that [Trump] should testify because he is going to tell the truth and he shouldn't worry, that's silly, because it's somebody's version of the truth. Not the truth."
When interviewer Chuck Todd shot back "Truth is truth," Giuliani replied, "No, it isn't truth. Truth isn't truth."
Giuliani’s remarks on "Meet the Press" immediately elicited harsh criticism, including from former FBI Director James Comey, who sent out a tweet Sunday that "Truth exists and truth matters."
In his tweet, Comey emphasized that "Truth has always been the touchstone of our country's justice system and political life. If we are untethered to truth, our justice system cannot function and a society based on the rule of law dissolves."
Guiliani’s remark also was seized on by many news shows and commentators in much the same way when Trump aide Kellyanne Conway defended then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for inaccurately describing the size of Trump's inauguration crowd as "the largest ever" by saying he merely "gave alternative facts," according to NBC News.
© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.