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The man at the forefront of Donald Trump’s many lawsuits against the electoral system used to be an American hero.
Now they are making fun of Rudy Giuliani. And described as dangerous. At a press conference Thursday, dark hair stained the sweaty Giuliani temple, as he made countless crude and undocumented allegations about the US elections.
On social media, the debate rose over what ran across Rudy Giuliani’s cheeks during press conferences on how Trump can win the election.
Former Defense Secretary Chris Krebs called Giuliani’s speech the most dangerous 95 minutes in US history.
Krebs was recently fired by outgoing President Trump. Like several other leaders of the United States Intelligence and Security Service.
The day Joe Biden was named president, Giuliani held another strange press conference. In a tired parking lot between a crematorium and a pornography store, he rejected the election result and launched a frontal attack on the American electoral system. No proof.
But who is this Rudy Giuliani? Two decades ago, he was seen as a mayor of the entire United States. As an American hero.
He was acclaimed after the attacks
We will return to the terrorist attacks in the United States and New York on September 11, 2001.
While President George W. Bush sought refuge in a bunker in Nevada, Rudy Guiliani was on the dusty streets of New York.
This is how many remember it. As mayor of the city during the attack in the fall of 2001.
He was there just after the other plane crashed into the twin towers and witnessed people jumping from burning buildings.
While the president was out of sight for most of the day, Giuliani spoke to the people.
– Tomorrow New York will still be here. We will rebuild the city and we will be stronger than before. I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country and the rest of the world. Terrorism cannot stop us, Giuliani said.
For many Americans, he became the unifying and confident leader that was needed.
BEING ON THE STREETS: Rudy Giuliani inspects Ground Zero with then-Governor George Pataki and Senator Hillary Clinton on September 12, 2001.
Photo: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Giuliani was hailed for his handling of the situation and was often referred to as an American hero and “mayor of the United States.”
In 2001, he became Time magazine’s Person of the Year. He was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
WORST TERRORISM IN UNITED STATES HISTORY: 2,753 people were killed when terrorists blew up two airliners against the Twin Towers in New York.
Photo: Doug Kanter / AFP
Trump refused to pay for breakfast
Today, Giuliani is known as the main champion of Donald Trump. One that really goes up in flames for the outgoing president.
But in New York in the 1990s, he wanted to have as little as possible to do with the city’s real estate mogul, Donald Trump.
During the election campaign to become mayor in 1993, Giuliani had breakfast at the Plaza Hotel, which was then owned by Trump.
Trump sat down a few tables away, and Giuliani is reported to have whispered the following to the adviser:
– Don’t let Donald buy us breakfast.
It is told by one of Giuliani’s former advisers from the American magazine Rolling Stone.
The US media describe the relationship between Trump and Giuliani in the coming years as “based on business.”
Trump, who was reliant on tax cuts, donated $ 3,000 to Giuliani’s first election campaign to become mayor. And Giuliani used Trump’s private jet to fly to Washington after the 9/11 terror attacks, writes The New York Times.
But in 2015, political ambitions brought them together.
Political ambitions
Following the terrorist attacks, Giuliani experienced enormous popularity. In 2008, he wanted to go one step further to become president of the United States. The attempt failed. John McCain became the party’s presidential candidate.
Giuliani’s campaign had spent more than $ 59 million and only won one delegate, writes Rolling Stone.
The loss also affected Giuliani’s business opportunities.
When Trump ran for president in 2015, Giuliani had a chance to become politically relevant again.
LOST TO MCCAIN: There was a scorching defeat in Giuliani’s nomination pick.
Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP
– I wouldn’t have won without Giuliani
Giuliani became one of the first Trump supporters during the election campaign. And he was one of the few who was willing to publicly support Trump, following the leak of the “Access Hollywood” video where he made the “grab ’em by the pussy” statement in the fall of 2016.
“Trump probably wouldn’t have been president without Rudy,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, told Rolling Stone.
– The last four weeks everything went well for us and everything went wrong for Hillary Clinton. One of the reasons for that was that Rudy was there, 24 hours a day, Bannon continues.
Giuliani is said to have wanted to get the job of secretary of state in the Trump administration. It did not succeed.
Giuliani was hired as a digital security consultant.
– The truth is not the truth
Two years later, he became part of the legal team representing Trump during the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election. Once again, he was often on television to defend the president.
Many of the performances attracted attention. Like when he was asked if the president should testify and he replied that the truth is not the truth, just someone’s version of the truth.
– The facts do not depend on the eyes that see, replies NBC host Chuck Todd.
– They Yes. Today they do. The truth is not the truth, Giuliani said.
At the heart of the Supreme Court case
After the investigation ended in 2019, Giuliani continued as Trump’s personal attorney.
Giuliani wanted to do a counter report to the Mueller investigation (which was never published) and worked with Ukrainian relations to find potentially damaging information on Joe Biden.
In a phone conversation in July that year, Trump asked Ukraine’s incoming President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the corruption allegations against Joe Biden, in exchange for US military aid.
In the end, the president was tried.
Ukraine relied on military aid to maintain its balance of power with Russia.
– I want you to do us a favor. Rudy knows exactly what is going on. He’s a very nice guy, Trump said.
The phone conversation became the core of the Supreme Court case against the president. He was later acquitted in the Senate, where Republicans have a majority.
UKRAINIAN RELATIONS: Rudy Giuliani has coffee with Ukrainian businessman Lev Parnas at the Trump Hotel in Washington. September 20, 2019.
Photo: Reuters / Reuters staff
Shit packages and conspiracy theories
The theories that Giuliani investigated in Ukraine have been refuted several times.
No evidence of the corruption allegations against Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who worked for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has been found.
Two Ukrainian businessmen, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who helped Giuliani investigate Biden in Ukraine, were later arrested for violating the US campaign finance law.
Giuliani also investigated a conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, and not Russia, that was behind the hack of the Democrats’ email server.
This was later refuted in an independent investigation carried out by representatives of both parties. The committee confirmed to US intelligence the findings that Russia was behind the hack.
In hindsight, Giuliani has made a number of controversial and conspiratorial statements, including against China in relation to the crown pandemic.
Giuliani is also a key source behind a highly controversial article in The New York Post about Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his board of directors of a Ukrainian company while his father was vice president. No other reputable outlet would print the case, as no other sources could be found to verify the information.
In 2019, the White House was warned that Rudy Giuliani was a target of Russian intelligence to spread misinformation about Trump, according to the Washington Post.
