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September 3, 2018 at 8:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
Jeffrey Toobin: Since joining Trumps team, Giuliani has greeted every new development as a vindication, even when hes had to bend and warp the evidence in front of him. Like Trump, he characterizes the Mueller probe as a witch hunt and the prosecutors as thugs. He has, in effect, become the legal auxiliary to Trumps Twitter feed, peddling the same chaotic mixture of non sequiturs, exaggerations, half-truths, and falsehoods. Giuliani, like the President, is not seeking converts but comforting the converted.
This has come at considerable cost to his reputation. As a prosecutor, Giuliani was the sheriff of Wall Street and the bane of organized crime. As mayor, he was the law-and-order leader who kicked squeegee men off the streets of New York. Now hes a talking head spouting nonsense on cable news. But this version of Giuliani isnt new; Trump has merely tapped into tendencies that have been evident all along.
Trump learned about law and politics from his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious sidekick to Joseph McCarthy who, as a lawyer in New York, became a legendary brawler and used the media to bash adversaries. In the early months of his Presidency, as Muellers investigation was getting under way, Trump is said to have raged, Wheres my Roy Cohn? In Giuliani, the President has found him.
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https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/03/how-giuliani-turned-into-trumps-clown/
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Not all of us New Yorkers thought he was a good mayor. His use of the police was nearly fascist and his headline-grabbing behavior was often as embarrassing as was his personal life.
Following the 9/11 attacks, he did rally the city and country but then he asked the city to suspend the mayoral election and let him continue in office for an unspecified amount of time. Giuliani was term-limited but felt that "he alone could fix" the city following the terrorism. Thankfully, he was rebuffed.
Today, he's become unhinged. There's a fascinating interview with his soon-to-be ex-wife in New York magazine where she says he's changed into someone she doesn't even recognize. Everything Trump touches dies.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/judith-giuliani-rudy-giuliani-divorce.html
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Was formed when he announced his divorce on the street, then proceeded to move his girl friend into the mansion..
So, no,I do not feel sorry for Judith either. She knew what she was getting.
calimary
(81,466 posts)Good!
rickford66
(5,528 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)accumulate a worth of $45M? What am I missing here?
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Shoonra
(523 posts)As a former New Yorker, who remembers Giuliani as an aggressive crime-fighting prosecutor, and then as the mayor who cleaned up Times Square, as someone who generated respect if not affection, it's painful to see him reduced to a rodeo clown for Trump, actually compelled to talk nonsense and act obtuse in the face of growing scandals. It's something like seeing a beloved relative turn senile.
RainCaster
(10,914 posts)Drooly drinks like a fish according to friends, acquaintances, etc.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts). . .and that's probably the worst thing that can happen to a guy like him.
DeeDeeNY
(3,356 posts)Sounds like a chip off the old block.
highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)Link to tweet
Emphasis added by Yashar Ali in his tweet.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...but instead is the comforting of the president. Rudy's face, regularly televised spouting talking points pleasing to Trump may be what he was really hired for.