RIP Rudy Giuliani

Wow. Here's Rudy Giuliani throwing the State Department under the bus and saying State officials called him and asked him to get involved in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/HIhQDmhzjh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 25, 2019

it's really weird

why would the state department ask the president's personal attorney to do diplomatic work?

because giuliani doesn't want to say that trump asked him to do it and the state department was simply told to cooperate with him.

the funny part is Twitter ppl acting like he wasn't always a giant piece of shit

how dare u, this hero of america is the reason there was no 9/12

The best part of that clip is even though its Fox, the anchor is all "hang on no pls stop talking u are digging a big hole here k thanks shut up"

(or perhaps BECAUSE its Fox, who kno)

maybe, someday

“Shut up, moron. Shut up. Shut up. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” pic.twitter.com/RHVoG0w7vl

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) September 25, 2019

Rarely am I in the course of a day convinced someone will go to jail. The last time was Cohen, I guess.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 11, 2019

I would never say, for example, that it’s well-known everywhere above 59th St. on the East Side that he’s a fall-down lush. That would be irresponsible. https://t.co/iMsIQ1g4VA

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 24, 2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/jboel9/our_wonderful_exmayor_rudy_giuliani_accidentally/

uh, def not clicking a link from reddit that warns me of 18+ content

it's a video of Rudy mimicking an Asian accent not sure why the 18+ warning

It's fairly impressive that he's able to slip some semi-coherent racism in while recursively babbling like a toddler that's just beginning to experiment with spoken language.

he seems out of his mind in that video. he's surrounded by helpers who are trying to get him to do anything useful. he spends 30 seconds muttering the same things to himself, just basically talking to himself, rapid-fire.

He seems how people are often depicted in pop culture as being on speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3e1F1a0Hg

remember that movie Spun, which was trying to be the meth version of requiem for a dream? haven't seen it in forever, but i think giuliani reminds me of that

https://y.yarn.co/f65fe056-1d4a-4a0a-bd19-a6b28ff9825e_text_hi.gif

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-biden-ukraine-russian-disinformation/2020/10/15/43158900-0ef5-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html

U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.

The warnings were based on multiple sources, including intercepted communications, that showed Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine, where he was gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The intelligence raised concerns that Giuliani was being used to feed Russian misinformation to the president, the former officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information and conversations.

The warnings to the White House, which have not been previously reported, led national security adviser Robert O’Brien to caution Trump in a private conversation that any information Giuliani brought back from Ukraine should be considered contaminated by Russia, one of the former officials said.

The message was, “Do what you want to do, but your friend Rudy has been worked by Russian assets in Ukraine,” this person said. Officials wanted “to protect the president from coming out and saying something stupid,” particularly since he was facing impeachment over his own efforts to strong-arm Ukraine’s president into investigating the Bidens.

But O’Brien emerged from the meeting uncertain whether he had gotten through to the president. Trump had “shrugged his shoulders” at O’Brien’s warning, the former official said, and dismissed concern about his lawyer’s activities by saying, “That’s Rudy.”

Hmmm…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.

Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras.

After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”

holy shit

loooool yikes

ew

Incredible. Total scumbag for years but increasingly dumb and reckless behavior tends to make me think the stories about his drinking are accurate.

haha wow

oh boy

but he definitely keeps all of trump's secrets when he travels to eastern europe and meets with people in real life to try to dig up dirt on the bidens

Hey, everyone, that's America's Mayor you're disparaging. Let's show him some respect.

Looking forward to QAnon's response.

My wife saw Giuliani speak at least 10 years ago at an industry/organization luncheon. It was your pretty typical speech until he started talking about how he "solved" the NY homeless problem. He went on to brag without any self-awareness of how they would tell a homeless person to move on and if they came back the next night and the homeless person was still there they would light all of the homeless person's belongings on fire. My wife said the luncheon pretty much went silent with everyone kind of looking uncomfortably at each other.

It's almost amazing when you think about how much unearned goodwill he had thrown at him after 9/11 and just how thoroughly and completely he's wasted every single ounce of it.

idk seems to me like he doesn't let a single ounce go to waste

xpost You say 'wasted', I say 'set on fire like a homeless person's possessions', let's call the whole thing off.

Every paragraph in that article is overflowing with gold!

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.

“This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away,” Giuliani said. The police found no crime had been committed.

Giuliani continued: “I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”

He also agrees – in theory at least – to eat a bat with his interviewer.

Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of viewers, to be a feral child posing as a far-right journalist.

Ah, the perfect voice for the moment.

I’ve seen the Giuliani moment in Borat 2. It’s even wilder than it sounds. Beyond cringe.

— Maureen Dowd (@maureendowd) October 21, 2020

Oh dear.

rudy will see your zoom dick and raise you a gloom dick pic.twitter.com/IXFMJWmxB5

— kilgore trout, a crushed algorithm (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 21, 2020

Here's a still from Borat's Giuliani scene. You can thank me later. pic.twitter.com/0gJvLeSrds

— Nikora (@MoaVideos) October 21, 2020

so did the "journalist" say she was underage or was presenting herself in such a way as to make her seem blatantly underage? i'm confused by that bit. obviously if Rudy had very good reason to believe she was underage then that adds a whole thick layer of fucked-up to this story

dowd trailed what i assume is this incident in her interview with cohen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html

There’s a scene with a top Trump adviser in “Borat Subsequent Movie Film: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (premiering on Oct. 23 on Amazon) that will leave you gobsmacked.

this has been a good week for gross dick

xxp I was confused by that, too. From the Guardian article: "Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of viewers, to be a feral child posing as a far-right journalist."

If she was posing as a journalist, I don't see why Giuliani would have reason to assume she was underage. But I don't get the feral child part.

I wish I had the Blade Runner photo zoomer to look around the room a little.

right, there's a definite gap between "married (?) guy trying to bang journalist" and "married guy trying to bang what he thinks is an underage girl"

Oh look, we're already into excusing the idea of Giuliani sexually harassing a woman phase of the thread, for fuck's sake.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/28/0e/2d280e161ce20f0122656c797127f0e4.jpg

It's not excusing, is it? It's just acknowledging just a sliding scale of wrong. All murder is wrong but we still classify it by degrees.

"The best current estimate is dated, but puts Mr Giuliani's net worth around $50m, with approximately $15m of that from his business activities, including his worth with his Giuliani Partners lobbying group, according to CNN. At the time of the estimate — about 15 years ago — he was earning approximately $17m a year.

But that was more than a decade ago, and a lot has changed for Mr Giuliani. On 21 December, Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy."

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rudy-giuliani-net-worth-bankrupt-b2468041.html

I hope he dies broke, homeless and alone.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, December 12, 2023 1:05 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

a huge insult to the many people who die broke, homeless and alone every day.

There are very few, if any, of those people on whom I would wish that fate.

Relistening to Blowback S1, was reminded that he was one of the finalists under consideration for "Viceroy" of Iraq after the invasion. What a shit show.

he is thinking "Jesus take the wheel"

does this mean the women who sued him get nothing?

I think they'll be first in line for a bankruptcy court-determined chunk of his current assets, and maybe a piece of whatever he makes on his continuing grifts while he's under Ch.11 reorg?

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sq4srjwg5noukbywa5stn6ar/bafkreict6524unynkaelo5d7pbpytwahfti4giyvt765s24ld4bk5qjfsq@jpeg

DENIED

you can tell the judge really enjoyed writing that one

A genius at work:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreic2du64voypyykfkzr3ytjkadfgnu7jl2nv3qjh6vyc76yzpe5wbu@jpeg

I don't why Ted Bundy didn't try that genius defense strategy

I don't imagine Rudy can afford competent counsel anymore

Saul Goodman

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/rudy-giuliani-ordered-to-testify-under-oath-in-bankruptcy-proceedings/

oh well this thread title is disappointing

But think of the fun we'd have missed if he'd actually died in 2019.

Sigh

"fun"

Oh come on

FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING

Have you forgotten?

Not to mention his sexual harassment lawsuit quotes

Borat scene

Bankruptcy

Dripping hair gunk

Shaving in dining area

Farting in court

ok it's fun. not the fun we want, but the fun we deserve

It's really hard to believe how hard he's fallen since his halcyon days in the 80s

He was always a shameless attention-seeker, he just crashed and burned when he came within Trump's orbit.

forget the 80s, the 2000s americas mayor, he was mayor of the whole country, because of terrorism

yeah all he had to do once he was done as mayor was chill out and shut up and he'd have been set for life, but trump tempted him to his own self-destruction.

not that he wasn't an absolute piece of shit through and through the entire time obv

Booze and age have clearly taken a toll, also.

judgment, competence, reputation—

one of the greatest, most hilarious, and most notable crashes ever

Hunt3r’s American HistoryTM

https://i.imgur.com/2f0jr00.png

he lived long enough to see himself become the villain its like Shakespeare

i didnt know shakespeare became the villain

watch one movie bro cmon

i might

forget the 80s, the 2000s americas mayor, he was mayor of the whole country, because of terrorism

the guy announced a separation from his wife in a press conference, before telling her. he was always nuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/nyregion/mayor-s-separation-overview-giuliani-his-wife-16-years-are-separating.html

i didnt know shakespeare became the villain

so good fwiw

and bur yeah, so many things demand re-inspectation really, amirite

That's Giuliani's voodoo: he turns Shakespeare into a villain

Astonished by that Time cover. Did they really superimpose him atop a tower post-9/11? Sometimes I forget how insane and on-the-nose everything was back then.

Yeah I think anyone who wouldn't know Rudy Giuliani pre-trump just has no idea how people responded to him at the time of 9/11, he had it all for a minute

Four Seasons Total Divorce

lol

JUST IN: Judge Howell upholds the jury's defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani in a 48-page opinion.https://t.co/dso7cRM1wM pic.twitter.com/I5ZHr00HXL

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 15, 2024