Giuliani - "The Fool for our time"
Giuliani flips so much, he should work as a cook at IHOP.
Here's an interesting opinion article yesterday in The Washington Post
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Rudy Giuliani is the fool for our time
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
December 19 at 5:30 PM
Rudy Giuliani started Tuesday in the manner Americans have come to expect of the president’s lawyer: He attacked former FBI director James Comey by tweeting a cartoon image of Bashful from Disney’s “Snow White.”
Giuliani deleted the tweet, and anyway, it’s not clear why he chose Bashful. Considering Giuliani’s recent antics, the character that comes to mind is Dopey.
In fact, hours after the aborted Bashful missive, Giuliani was dopey once again. He had told CNN on Sunday that “no one signed” a letter of intent for Donald Trump to build a Moscow project. On Tuesday, CNN obtained the letter — signed by Trump.
Giuliani, asked by the New York Daily News to explain himself, said, “I don’t think I said nobody signed it.” Completing the reversal, he said “of course” Trump signed it: “How could you send it but nobody signed it?”
The “fool” has been a dramatic fixture at least since Shakespeare scribbled, and Giuliani is the fool for our time. Occasionally he speaks accidental truths, but mostly he plays the clown. He’s America’s crazy uncle at a time when, according to a Wired tally, seven sets of prosecutors and investigators are pursuing at least 17 court cases involving Trump.
“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message,” an alarmed Giuliani tweeted a few weeks ago, calling Twitter “card-carrying anti-Trumpers.” In fact, Giuliani had accidentally sabotaged his own tweet with a punctuation error — “G-20.In” — that automatically created a hyperlink to an Indian Web address. A clever observer quickly bought the domain and created a page that said “Donald Trump is a traitor.” Giuliani’s errant accusation was all the funnier because he’s also Trump’s “cybersecurity adviser.”
Right after the hyperlink high jinks, Giuliani tweeted a string of gibberish: “Kimim ° has f.” A previous Giuliani tweet saying only the word “You” prompted a fill-in-the-blank festival.
The former New York mayor, 74, has long been a loose cannon, asserting that there had not been any “successful Islamic terrorist attacks” during the George W. Bush administration, saying Trump’s travel ban was a legal way to do a “Muslim ban,” and predicting a “pretty big surprise” right before Comey reopened the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Alternately ill-informed and indiscreet, he’s just the guy you’d want as your lawyer.
Giuliani began as Trump’s lawyer in the spring by comparing FBI agents to “stormtroopers” and later claiming a law-enforcement informant was a “spy.”
He pivoted from describing Michael Cohen as “an honest, honorable lawyer” who is “not going to lie” to a “proven liar” who has “lied all his life.”
He said he would charge special counsel Robert Mueller’s office “with a lance” to defend Ivanka Trump, but Jared Kushner is “disposable.”
He said Trump couldn’t be indicted as president even if he “shot” Comey.
He undermined months of Trump’s “no collusion” claims by proclaiming instead that “collusion is not a crime.”
He defended Trump on NBC’s “Meet the Press” by saying “truth isn’t truth.”
He admitted publicly that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was held “for the purpose of getting information about Clinton,” upending the official line that it was about adoption.
He suggested guilt when he told the Daily Beast “this was not a big crime” because “nobody got killed, nobody got robbed.”
And, days ago, he raised the possibility that associate Roger Stone gave Trump advance notice that WikiLeaks would release emails about Clinton stolen by Russia, saying “if” Stone had, “it’s not a crime.”
Rudy Giuliani is the fool for our time
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
December 19 at 5:30 PM
Rudy Giuliani started Tuesday in the manner Americans have come to expect of the president’s lawyer: He attacked former FBI director James Comey by tweeting a cartoon image of Bashful from Disney’s “Snow White.”
Giuliani deleted the tweet, and anyway, it’s not clear why he chose Bashful. Considering Giuliani’s recent antics, the character that comes to mind is Dopey.
In fact, hours after the aborted Bashful missive, Giuliani was dopey once again. He had told CNN on Sunday that “no one signed” a letter of intent for Donald Trump to build a Moscow project. On Tuesday, CNN obtained the letter — signed by Trump.
Giuliani, asked by the New York Daily News to explain himself, said, “I don’t think I said nobody signed it.” Completing the reversal, he said “of course” Trump signed it: “How could you send it but nobody signed it?”
The “fool” has been a dramatic fixture at least since Shakespeare scribbled, and Giuliani is the fool for our time. Occasionally he speaks accidental truths, but mostly he plays the clown. He’s America’s crazy uncle at a time when, according to a Wired tally, seven sets of prosecutors and investigators are pursuing at least 17 court cases involving Trump.
“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message,” an alarmed Giuliani tweeted a few weeks ago, calling Twitter “card-carrying anti-Trumpers.” In fact, Giuliani had accidentally sabotaged his own tweet with a punctuation error — “G-20.In” — that automatically created a hyperlink to an Indian Web address. A clever observer quickly bought the domain and created a page that said “Donald Trump is a traitor.” Giuliani’s errant accusation was all the funnier because he’s also Trump’s “cybersecurity adviser.”
Right after the hyperlink high jinks, Giuliani tweeted a string of gibberish: “Kimim ° has f.” A previous Giuliani tweet saying only the word “You” prompted a fill-in-the-blank festival.
The former New York mayor, 74, has long been a loose cannon, asserting that there had not been any “successful Islamic terrorist attacks” during the George W. Bush administration, saying Trump’s travel ban was a legal way to do a “Muslim ban,” and predicting a “pretty big surprise” right before Comey reopened the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Alternately ill-informed and indiscreet, he’s just the guy you’d want as your lawyer.
Giuliani began as Trump’s lawyer in the spring by comparing FBI agents to “stormtroopers” and later claiming a law-enforcement informant was a “spy.”
He pivoted from describing Michael Cohen as “an honest, honorable lawyer” who is “not going to lie” to a “proven liar” who has “lied all his life.”
He said he would charge special counsel Robert Mueller’s office “with a lance” to defend Ivanka Trump, but Jared Kushner is “disposable.”
He said Trump couldn’t be indicted as president even if he “shot” Comey.
He undermined months of Trump’s “no collusion” claims by proclaiming instead that “collusion is not a crime.”
He defended Trump on NBC’s “Meet the Press” by saying “truth isn’t truth.”
He admitted publicly that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was held “for the purpose of getting information about Clinton,” upending the official line that it was about adoption.
He suggested guilt when he told the Daily Beast “this was not a big crime” because “nobody got killed, nobody got robbed.”
And, days ago, he raised the possibility that associate Roger Stone gave Trump advance notice that WikiLeaks would release emails about Clinton stolen by Russia, saying “if” Stone had, “it’s not a crime.”
(continued in my first comment below)
Comments (14)
A kid comes to New York. Great city. Love that city. They love me. He gets lost or left behind or something. Ends up staying at a hotel. One of my hotels. Classy place. You’d love it there, believe me.
First class all the way. Kid gets chased around by bad guys. Real bad hombres. Not the sort that would stay in my hotels, which are nice. Clean and luxurious, believe me. I’m in the film. Best part of the movie. Only part worth watching. I’m a great actor. I’d have an Oscar if I wanted it. Believe me. Film had that Culkin kid in it. He’s a mess now. Must’ve hung around crooked Hillary. He should’ve stayed with me. He’d be bigly famous, like me. People love me. I hear it all the time, believe me. All the time.- Dotart Very very large, uh brain?
Unfortunately US has become a symbol of monolithic political culture with low education levels, and low exposure to differing beliefs ("republican" and "democrats"- both the same money). Principles are complicated. and it is easier to use labels like republican and democrat. or just build a wall. anything that reminds a "us vs them".
most people think politics as a baseball game and they are not politically educated enough to research or even read past the headline as long it's the side they support.
This is the result of the two-party system and "political money system" - any con artist with money can buy "politics"
apologies Lady,
L - Can you imagine the party, when Trump finally gets impeached ?
And then, when he FINALLY gets put in jail ?
Oh man ! There will be parties breaking out all over the place
Instead of shouting USA, everyone will be chanting "F.B.I."
Someone here isn’t telling the truth, shocking as that might be
I wondered why Trump would make such a bizarre move, until hearing Putin release a statement about what a good thing Trump is doing. I have little doubt he was the key reason Trump made such a move, for their ties are too numerous and deep.
I never thought I would see a U.S. president in the pocket of one of America's oldest enemy nation/states, but every month or two he does something else to support this treasonous relationship. This man.. uh excuse me, moron is a disgrace to the nation and the world, not to mention every thinking person who doesn't wear blinders.
Certainly no rocket scientists in that bunch.
And still no blogs on General Mattis quitting.
I just hope they don't turn to vinegar before I get to partake of them.
That is treason.
He never had the USA's best interest at heart.
It has always been his finances above all else.