RIP Rudy Giuliani

SIBLEY BEGINS: "My client, as you saw last night, likes to talk a lot unfortunately."

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 12, 2023

had he shut his piehole and played the game, he could just be wandering around Times Square doing selfies with tourists and talking about the morning of September 11th for the rest of his life

he blew it

"While drooling Johnny Walker Black."

As career choices flash before his eyes...

SIBLEY: Why don’t you have enough money to repair your reputation?

MOSS: Because your client is still lying on me and ruining my reputation further ... How could you work in law if everyone is saying you’re a horrible lawyer?

SIBLEY: You’d be surprised actually.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 12, 2023

"The testimony from Shaye Moss was heartbreaking."

it's such a compelling testimony, and it's so enraging to see such vulnerable people put in such physical danger by Giuliani and Trump's words. Another horrible villain is that Black Voices For Trump guy who was still doing an intimidation campaign against them on social media until I think he was locked up for it.

So the joy here is that this is Rudy's OWN lawyer saying this as part of closing arguments.

MORE: Sibley repeatedly criticizing Giuliani, comparing him to flat-earthers who will never stop believing election lies, saying he committed an 'injustice' against Moss/Freeman, noting he's almost 80.

"Rudy Giuliani shouldn’t be defined by what’s happened in recent times."

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 14, 2023

"My client is a senile old idiot. Pity him?"

Unfrozen caveman lawyer as defendant.

Pity the child who has ambition
Knows what he wants to do
Knows that he'll never fit the system
Others expect him to

Lots of 80 year olds don't have a megaphone to ruin other people's lives.

Even if the damages judgement is fairly modest - say $4 million - Rudy doesn't have any money. And nobody's gonna come bail him out by selling Rudy NFT's

What if they sold actual pieces of Rudy?

take another little piece of his heart now baby

This is my body

his flesh is 90% bourbon

The part of his brain that craves attention seems to be the last part still functioning more or less normally.

He's going to have to live off of the Borat 2 residuals I'm afraid.

all time own goal lol he shouldve been sitting on corporate boards, collecting speaking fees and so forth, even the more normal things he did like have a law firm, weird cyber security company were beneath his station

couldve been doing a pretend job at blackrock

I was thinking about his situation this morning (the local NPR affiliate was covering his case). As a New Yorker, he surely knows that Donald Trump is an utter piece of shit. I think he thought he could leverage proximity to Trump to his own advantage, to continue to get what he obviously needs, which is attention. What he failed to consider is that everyone who comes within the Trump orbit is eventually destroyed.

Of course, it's obvious that he is in mental and physical decline, probably a combination of age and alcohol.

I would feel sorry for him if he weren't such a self-serving asshole.

honestly his post-mayoral arc is almost poetically tragic, culminating not in living a chill life in Manhattan but roaming the hinterlands of the U.S. trying to embarrassingly fight for an extraordinarily dumb and bad guy who probably secretly hates him

i say "almost" because he was obviously always a POS

its still tragic in the classic sense

xpost I watched a little bit of some video testimony last year or so, and honestly he did not seem to be in particular mental decline. I think he is just a huge asshole.

Eh. He appeared in court the other day with his belt undone. More significantly, a lot of his public statements seem confused. He's certainly not as sharp as he was even ten years ago.

He definitely *looks* terrible!

But he is indeed a huge asshole. Always has been. I remember when he announced his candidate for mayor. I was living in New York at the time, and one of my co-workers, who was deeply involved in and passionate about city politics, was outraged. He said Giuliani had nothing to offer the city, he was doing it for his own self-aggrandizement. He wasn't wrong.

*candidacy

was it a....cardboard belt?

I've seen it suggested that his antics yesterday was him making the mistake of thinking that he can get away with acting like Trump outside a courtroom, which of course nobody else in the US can. Also seen it suggested that it was possibly tactical, a rather pathetic attempt to play towards a mistrial.

As for public statements, "confused" is generally the GOP default. That's what happens when most of the stuff you say is bullshit. Like, what would a lucid Trump even sound like? Confusing bluster is his defining trait.

It's too late for that.

(xp)

every day I open this hoping he has died

xp
I figured that would be the case, but you could be forgiven for thinking this guy has never actually practised law before!

https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/TaHsniOMN__bOex4qFITPEXQM2o=/0x0:2312x1540/800x533/filters:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/LKRYR43WEJE3VOP6ZJDWAE5EF4.jpg

The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

til the racist bald fuckwit aka "America's Mayor" managed to make the 9/11 emergency response more ineffectual and chaotic, by ignoring good advice.

the title of this thread is finally appropriate

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1735771145993953713

THE DECISION:

Defamation
Moss awarded: $16,998,000
Freeman awarded: $16,171,000

Emotional distress
Moss awarded: $20 million
Freeman awarded: $20 million

Punitive damages
Total: $75 million

wow!

Here's how it hurts Joe Biden.

Very cut and dry case, well deserved.

das alotta cash bb

What is Rudy worth these days?

not seventy five million dollars

$75

You can't even go on tv and tell lies that put private citizens in danger these days without the woke mob coming for your loot

Is he really gonna have to pay any of this out though? Or Alex Jones, for that matter? I'd bet that the Goldmans have seen about 400 bucks from OJ after all these years.

he's not cooperated with discovery on his earnings so I guess it's time to take his real estate off him to cover it, then work the rest out in monthly instalments, forever until he dies - love this shit!

he's on TV now still lying