US Elections: Did Rudy Giuliani fart at the Michigan voter fraud hearing?

Another week, another example of Rudy Giuliani making headlines for unflattering reasons.

This time around, the former New York mayor and current attorney for Trump went viral after internet users became convinced he let out a couple of loud farts during a Michigan voter fraud hearing.

During a chaotic and conspiracy-theorized hearing in Michigan on Wednesday, one of Trump’s witnesses went viral for all the wrong reasons, and now Giuliani is also in the limelight for the same event.

During the audience footage, two farting sounds could be heard as Giuliani spoke for about four hours. And if the looks of others say something, the sounds come from Giuliani.

The two loud sounds occurred about two minutes apart, while Giuliani spoke.

The images of the moment have been shared on Twitter, where they have already been seen more than 3.4 million times.

Internet users noticed Jenna Ellis’s face as the lawyer helping Giuliani sat next to her. His sideways glance immediately after the sound did not go unnoticed.

Michigan has already certified Biden as the official winner in the state, beating Trump by about 150,000 votes.

At the same in-state hearing this week, one of Trump’s star campaign witnesses alleging voter fraud suddenly rose to viral fame.

The hearing lasted four hours and included testimony from several individuals who claimed to have witnessed misconduct on election night. One of them was Melissa Carone.

Carone said Dominion, the company behind the electronic voting systems used by some American counties, hired her to do IT work at the TCF Center in Detroit.

Dominion has confirmed this, saying that Carone was in fact “one of several thousand technicians we hired for a day or two.” His job at the vote counting center was to “fix level one problems for staff.”

He faced questions from various Michigan state politicians, representing the two major parties, but an irritable exchange with Rep. Steven Johnson, a Republican, is receiving the most attention.

He was referring to discrepancies in the Detroit poll book, in which the number of registered voters as cast voters did not match the number of votes actually counted.

This is not an unusual phenomenon. It has happened repeatedly in previous elections, including Trump’s victory in 2016.

The discrepancy is usually just a handful of votes and can be due to human error, a stuck tab, or someone registering to vote and then leaving without waiting to cast their vote.

Carone had another explanation. His testimony was that he witnessed poll workers counting the same ballots “nine to ten times”, and that this happened with thousands of ballots.

If true, that would mean Detroit reported tens of thousands more votes for Joe Biden than had actually been cast.

Johnson asked how Carone’s testimony could be accurate, as it would have caused a much larger discrepancy between the voting book and the number of votes counted.

“Are we saying that the voting book is very bad or that they are filling in names?” Johnson asked.

Carone replied: “Very bad. It is very bad, and the dead voted and the illegals voted. So that’s my answer.”

Trump’s legal team has made headlines both for getting the cases thrown out and for starring in embarrassing moments, including the bizarre press conference in the Four Seasons Landscaping parking lot and the press conference during which the hair dye of Giuliani dripped down his face.