Remember when Donald Trump tried his hand at humor back in August, tweeting, “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” likely because the president’s former porno fixer had just struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors and would likely be turning over reams of information about his ex-boss? We ask because it feels like we are now mere weeks—if not days!—away from the president tweeting something similar about his current legal representation, Rudy Giuliani, who just can’t seem to stop implicating his client in federal crimes.

To rewind for a moment: in May, shortly after joining Trump’s legal team, Giuliani appeared on TV and said that, of course, Trump had known about the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, for which he reimbursed Cohen, and that it wasn’t a big deal at all. In July, as reports swirled that Robert Mueller would be examining Trump’s tweets for evidence of obstruction of justice, the former mayor of New York’s defense was not, say, Donald Trump has not and will never obstruct justice, but rather, Donald Trump would never commit a crime . . . in public. Then last week, after reportedly being put in a media time-out, Giuliani reemerged to tell the Daily Beast of his client’s apparent wrongdoing: “nobody got killed, nobody got robbed” in the course of the hush payments, ergo “this was not a big crime.” All of which was merely a prelude to ole Rud’s performance on Sunday, when during a chat with George Stephanopoulos, he said that 1) Trump lies all the time (but not under oath, so it’s fine), and 2) collusion is not a crime, and even if Trump had colluded with Russia, he did so before November 2016.

Also on Sunday, the world’s great lawyer told CNN’s Dana Bash that while Trump may have been in informal talks to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, in the middle of a U.S. election that Russia was attempting to sway, he never signed anything official. Except apparently, that was not true at all:

A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia, despite his attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming on Sunday the document was never signed.