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On Saturday, the eleventh hour of the vote count, President Donald Trump called a press conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney and also a member of the Republican Party, would report on the extensive electoral fraud that has taken place, according to Donald Trump.
But instead of a scathing reckoning with the “undemocratic” electoral process, the press conference turned into a miserable end to the Trump campaign.
Beginning with It was not the Four Seasons luxury hotel, “Four Seasons”, in downtown Philadelphia, the site of the press conference, but a sunken shopping center in an industrial zone in the northern part of the city, where, among other things , a pornography shop, a crematorium and the gardening company Hyst of four seasons in sig.
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Was it a fatal misbooking? In any case, Rudy Giuliani was standing there, on a rickety podium, in front of the assembled world press. But he had nothing more substantial to offer than the testimony of election observers who were not allowed to be as close to the counters as they wanted. Giuliani’s claim that “hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots” had been counted was not supported.
The press conference at the porn shop is the latest chapter in the now rather sad story of Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani, who dealt with Donald Trump’s legal affairs a little over two years ago but is now considered something of a Sancho Panza for Donald Trump’s Don Quixote.
Still it all started so good. After a successful and distinguished career as a prosecutor, Rudy Giuliani won the mayoral election of New York City in 1992. Giuliani, then 48, became the city’s first Republican mayor in decades, and immediately he got to work on his main problem: law enforcement.
Giuliani ordered New York police and prosecutors to introduce zero tolerance and crack down on even minor offenders. By sheer speed, Manhattan ordered, he made sure the graffiti was removed and the broken windows repaired.
Giuliani quickly built a reputation for cleaning in New York and won the next mayoral election in 1996 by a wide margin. A few months before the end of his term, on September 11, 2001, New York was attacked by aerial terrorists.
Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York when the terrorist attacks occurred on September 11, 2001. The photo was taken the day after he visited the site with New York Governor George Pataki and then-Senator Hillary Clinton.
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Rudy Giuliani stood out as a determined leader after the September 11 attacks. His way of leading the world city through the shock gave him hero status and there were similarities between the mayor of New York and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led Britain during World War II.
Giuliani was awarded the Order of the British Empire, was named “Person of the Year” by TIme magazine, and by television star Oprah Winfrey the epithet “Mayor of America.”
The path to more important tasks seemed obvious. After a few years as a well-paid international security consultant, Giuliani decided to run as a Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
When Giuliani confirmed who intended to run for president, a poll showed he had the support of 70 percent of those surveyed. But Giuliani overestimated his popularity: he decided to intervene at the end of the campaign, it was too late.
Giuliani under the president of sin kampanj 2008.
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Perhaps Giuliani also had too much faith in his credentials from the 9/11 attacks. I remember Joe Biden, who in 2008 hoped to be the Democratic presidential candidate (he lost to Barack Obama), in a debate mocking Giuliani for his three-component speech: “an adjective, a verb, and September 11.”
I also remember an election rally in the affluent coastal city of Naples, Florida, where Giuliani, very late and very sweaty, tried to excite a crowd of older people in front of an Irish pub. It was like this. After the primary election in Florida, Giuliani abandoned the candidate campaign.
In recent years Rudy Giuliani has been described more for his stormy private life and alleged shady contacts with Ukraine than for his political ambitions. He has been married three times and all of his divorces have been expensive, dirty and very public.
In the spring of 2018, Giuliani took over as Donald Trump’s personal attorney to, if possible, guide the president through the legal quagmire he ended up in, where payments to pornstar Stormy Daniels were just one component.
Giuliani and Trump’s friendship dates back to the New York years of the 1990s, but the question many are asking is whether Rudy Giuliani’s support further complicates matters for the president.
Giuliani and Trump friendship It dates back to the New York years in the 1990s, but the question many are asking is whether Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement further messed things up for the president.
One example is the Supreme Court investigation that was launched against Trump and later led to prosecution. The case was based on a suspicion that the Trump administration withheld $ 391 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure an investigation into Joe Biden’s family affairs in the country.
Several people testified at questioning that Giuliani was the spider in the web in the Ukraine campaign and that he had joined a special group designated to administer the blackmail alleged by the Democrats.
Trump was acquitted in the Supreme Court indictment, but the case barely enhanced Giuliani’s reputation as an unprincipled, angry gamer in the smogiest room in politics. Light years away from the law-abiding idealist, he appeared as once, not so long ago.
