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The madness of all the action would also be revealed if Rudy Giuliani had turned off the microphone and hadn’t understood a word he was saying. On Thursday, the former mayor of New York is standing in a small newsroom in Washington, with reporters from the capital’s media huddled in front of him.
Before the lawyer approaches the microphone, two members of Trump’s team quickly embrace in front of the cameras; Giuliani himself doesn’t even think about wearing a mask. Just a day ago the United States reported 250,000. Dead crown. Giuliani and his people, however, pretend that the pandemic only exists in the imagination of crazy leftists.
Probably the ability to deny reality is exactly what your attorney’s president likes. Donald Trump lost the presidential election, there is no doubt about that. Joe Biden leads with an advantage of more than five million votes, he has recovered the decisive states in the north of the United States, which gave Trump the victory in 2016. Half the world has congratulated Biden on his victory, since Angela Merkel to the Pope.
But behind Giuliani is a sign that reads, “Various Paths to Victory,” including states in red that Trump can supposedly still win. Over the course of his speech, Trump’s sweaty attorney wiped dark paint across his temples, apparently it was hair dye. You can imagine the reactions on social media.
What Giuliani says is reminiscent of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who in 2003, shortly before the victory of US troops in Iraq, declared: “Baghdad is safe. Hundreds of unbelievers commit suicide outside the city gates ”. Because what Giuliani presents is as credible as the words of Saddam Hussein’s main propagandist, who went down in history as “The comic Ali.” The president’s attorney said there was massive evidence that the November 3 elections were misled. He claims that Republican inspectors have been systematically prevented from doing their job. It says, “This is not a single case of electoral fraud in one state.” Rather, it all speaks for the fact that there was a sophisticated plan to steal Trump’s victory.
Lots of claims, no proof
The only problem is that Giuliani still lacks solid evidence for his theory this afternoon too. Donald Trump doesn’t have to worry about that. The president’s strategy is simple. He’s working on the myth that an unscrupulous Democratic party tricked him into not winning the election, and that infidel Republicans stabbed him in the back. That has nothing to do with reality. But that doesn’t make sense as long as enough American citizens believe the lie. And that seems to be the case: Nearly 70 percent of Republican voters now say they are concerned the election has been rigged.
The question is why Giuliani is playing this dirty game. He was once a man with a reputation to lose. Giuliani was mayor of New York City for eight years. He rejected crime in the city and succeeded in giving New Yorkers courage and confidence after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Giuliani myth arose from the ruins of the World Trade Center and became the most famous mayor in the world, the “Mayor of the United States”. Time magazine took it on the cover; the British queen knighted him.
Friends of the Party Giuliani, Trump (2016)
Photo: Mike Segar / REUTERS
After his time as mayor, he turns his fame into money. He received $ 100,000 per speech and founded a consulting company at the same time. Giuliani was not scrupulous in choosing his clients. He served Purdue, the drug company that made a lot of money on addictive pain relievers. But Giuliani was soon back in the spotlight. In 2007 he ran for the Republican presidential nomination, but the project failed miserably. Joe Biden blasphemed at the time that Giuliani basically only knew one sentence: “Noun – Verb – September 11.” In fact, Giuliani had put his reaction to September 11 at the center of his campaign. That was far from enough.
Giuliani does not have an official position in the White House
Trump was the opportunity for Giuliani to get back on the big stage. He was already defending his old friend from New York during the election campaign, even when everyone else didn’t like him. “Men just talk like that,” Giuliani said on television when a sound recording was released in the fall of 2016 in which Trump bragged that he would hold women in the crotch without being asked. In the White House, Giuliani becomes a cross between consigliere and hammer for Trump. Officially, it has no function, but that makes it easier to get dirty jobs done.
In the Ukraine case, it is Giuliani who makes the completely baseless claim that Joe Biden fired a prosecutor general in Kiev to do his son Hunter a favor. And shortly before the Nov.3 election, Giuliani provided a New York tabloid with dirty stories about the candidate’s son that no serious media wants to touch.
The scene from the movie “Borat” is embarrassing, but not surprising
But Giuliani’s trash sticks to him. “America’s Mayor” becomes a character. When comedian and filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen released his new movie “Borat” in the fall, in which Giuliani is first interviewed by a young woman and then lured into the bedroom by the reporter – fake – (“Should we have a drink? in The Bedroom? ‘), the tease is great, but no one is surprised by Giuliani. Because the image of the greasy lawyer slapping young women on the buttocks corresponds exactly to the image that most Americans already have in the bedroom. Giuliani’s head.
Viewed this way, you have nothing to lose anyway. The 76-year-old is fighting his latest fight with Trump. Like the president, Giuliani is in danger of going to jail if Joe Biden takes power in Washington. For many months, Giuliani has been sitting on the back of the New York prosecutor for whom he once worked.
Furthermore, Giuliani is paying well for his loyalty to Trump: he allegedly wants to charge the president’s team a fee as serious as his work as a lawyer: $ 20,000 a day.
