With hair dye running down his cheeks and Donald Trump watching on television, the attorney for the President of the United States, Rudy Giuliani, on Thursday unleashed eyebrow-raising claims that George Soros, China and a dead Venezuelan dictator conspired with the ” criminals “Democrats to hand over the US election to Joe Biden. In an extraordinary 90-minute press conference at the Republican National Committee in Washington, Giuliani and other members of Trump’s legal team left no doubt that they were refusing to acknowledge President-elect Biden’s victory, arguing instead that a broad “conspiracy national “to deny Trump reelection was underway.
Giuliani opened with a frontal attack on “corrupt” cities led by Democrats like Detroit, whom he accused of deliberately yielding thousands of votes to Biden, spoke of “a plan from a centralized place to execute” electoral fraud and warned about a “curtain iron of censorship ”denying the American people the facts about the elections.
Then it got strange. “Did everyone see ‘My Cousin Vinny’?” asked Giuliani, who proceeded to offer his best Joe Pesci impersonation, copying the actor’s mobster persona from the 1992 hit movie.
“How many fingers do I lift?” he groaned, apparently complaining about how far election supervisors were being kept from counting votes in swing states like Georgia. Caressing her beaded forehead with a handkerchief, and with sweat mixed with hair dye dripping from her temples, Giuliani’s attacks veered toward the extravagant.
“They should be more astonished by the fact that our votes are counted in Germany, and in Spain by a company owned by affiliates of Chávez and Maduro,” Giuliani told reporters, referring to the notorious Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, who has been dead for seven years. years, and the current leftist president of the country, Nicolás Maduro.
The company in question is the electoral software firm Smartmatic, founded in 2000 in Florida by two men born in Venezuela. Smartmatic Chairman Mark Malloch-Brown is on the Open Society Foundation board started by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a recurring Jewish philanthropist from the specter of right-wing conspiracy theorists.
The company president “is a close associate and business partner of George Soros, the largest donor to the Democratic Party, the largest donor to Antifa, and the largest donor to Black Lives Matter,” Giuliani said.
“My God. What do we have to do to get you to give the truth to our people?” He said.
Accusing Biden’s aides of orchestrating the alleged fraud, Giuliani said: “They made major mistakes, as all criminals do, and we caught them.”
As Giuliani repeated conspiracy theories and discussed the various “paths to victory” for his boss, Trump reveled in the attorney’s message as he watched from the White House, tweeting about “an open and closed case of voter fraud.”
The president’s claims of mass cheating have been discredited by a cybersecurity agency in the Trump administration itself that declared the November election “the safest in American history.”
The director of that agency, Chris Krebs, was fired this week by Trump. Like the president, he too was watching Giuliani’s performance.
“That press conference was the most dangerous 1 hour 45 minute of television in US history. And possibly the craziest, ”Krebs said on Twitter.
Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for US President Donald Trump, speaks during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, on November 19, 2020 (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin).
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, criticized a big city rival when he claimed that New Jerseyans crossing state lines to vote in Pennsylvania was “as frequent as getting beaten up at a Philadelphia Eagle football game. “.
He and his fellow attorneys Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and others huddled in a room at the Republican National Convention headquarters, unmasked in the middle of a fugitive. coronavirus
pandemic that has killed more than 250,000 Americans.
They spent considerable time detailing the complaints made in multiple affidavits alleging embezzlement, including that of a Detroit-registered Democrat who reported a fraud he was allegedly asked to perpetrate.
The poll worker who filed that affidavit, Jessy Jacob, “was basically trained to cheat,” Giuliani said, after holding up copies of the affidavit and challenging journalists to read and report on the legal challenges.
“I don’t know, maybe you could tell that he’s lying? But it cannot be said that there is no evidence, “he added.
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