Rudy Giuliani

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

[raison de arizona]

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/14 ... 03236?s=19

Yeah, he's been doing those for a spell now.

[raison de arizona]

This is being widely reported, but has been disputed, especially with respect to Andrew Giuliani, so... Grain of salt and all that I suppose.

POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Fox to Rudy: You’re banned

RUDY GETS THE GONG — RUDY GIULIANI has been banned from Fox News for almost three months. As if the sting of that weren’t painful enough, the “9/11 mayor” learned of his banishment … on the eve of Sept. 11.

Giuliani was slated to appear on “Fox & Friends” to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack. But the night before, host PETE HEGSETH called Giuliani to say he’d been cut from the show and apologize.

The ban extends not just to GIULIANI, but also to his son ANDREW, who has not been on Fox News since he launched his campaign for governor of New York in May despite many requests to go on the network. His team has been frustrated that rival GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. LEE ZELDIN is a frequent guest.

But bookers have told both Giulianis the ban comes from the top, sources said. The former New York City mayor had been a fixture on the network.

“Rudy is really hurt because he did a big favor for RUPERT [MURDOCH],” a source close to Giuliani said. “He was instrumental in getting Fox on Time Warner so it could be watched in New York City.” In 1996, Giuliani’s administration advocated for Time Warner to carry the newly launched Fox News Channel, intervening in a dispute between Murdoch and the cable provider.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/pl ... ned-494458

[northland10]

I did him a favor 25 years ago, so he is obligated to kiss my backside for all eternity, and also take a $1 billion loss from lawsuits from election system companies because I will talk about it on the error repeatedly. You owe me, Murdock!!!

[Uninformed]

I hadn’t seen this; Maddow on part of Rudy’s Dominion deposition:

[Slim Cognito]

Sitting in the Philly airport w/o headphones. Could someone sum up

[p0rtia]

Sitting in the Philly airport w/o headphones. Could someone sum up

In his deposition, Rudy says that he was basing his statements about Dominion's malfeasance on social media posts--he couldn't remember which platform. Rachel mocks his vagueness, "the one with the bird". When asked if he did any research to find out if the social media posts were accurate, he objects to that suggestion, saying that that's not his job, other people do that. No discussion of if other people did that, or if he listened to them. Rachel mocks more, chiding his flimsy excuses and the pointing out that the bottom line is that he read some stuff on line and based his statements on Dominion's criminality on that.

[Slim Cognito]

And thx!

[Uninformed]

Only a short video; basically Rudy admits he checked nothing, didn’t speak to any of the “witnesses/sources, did no research, and can’t remember whether he saw some of the claims on social media.

Ninja’d…

[woodworker]

Yaybut, in his mind that proves, PROVES, that he did nothing wrong and clearly shows that Dominion has no case against him. Although, IMHO his statements do seem to meet the test for constitutional "malice."

[Flatpoint High]

Only a short video; basically Rudy admits he checked nothing, didn’t speak to any of the “witnesses/sources, did no research, and can’t remember whether he saw some of the claims on social media.

Ninja’d…

this is typical for RW "citizen journalists"

[Luke]

Here's the transcript of the depo and it is rich. It's all the lying grifters together. To be clear, this is for the Coomer lawsuit, not the big Dominion case.

20 Q. The crew that you mentioned that
21 was counsel to the president, who was on
22 that team?
23 A. Why don't we say counsel to the
24 president personally. On that team,
25 myself, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Joseph
Page 21
1 GIULIANI
2 diGenova, Victoria Toensing. I'm not sure
3 at that point if Christina Bobb was or
4 wasn't. She may have been. And I'm
5 missing one I know. Boris.
6 Q. Boris?
7 A. Boris -- Boris, Boris, Boris, I
8 can't remember his last name. Boris.
9 I'll get you his name.
10 Q. Okay.
11 A. His status was -- I should
12 explain this so it doesn't create any
13 confusion. The original press release
14 that was put out, Boris's name was not
15 included, although it was included in the
16 document that was sent over to the White
17 House. His name was excluded because the
18 president's staff did not think Boris was
19 a lawyer. It turned out that Boris was a
20 lawyer and therefore we included his name,
21 and so there are some press releases that
22 have Boris's name and some that do not.
23 Boris Epstein, Boris Epstein

That's gotta have stung Boris.

https://lede-admin.coloradosun.com/wp-c ... r-case.pdf

[Flatpoint High]

[p0rtia]

This is a classic deposition. Thanks!

Here's highlight of Rudy, blabbing on about the evils of Dominion and Coomer:

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[Slim Cognito]

infinity

[Luke]

Hours of laughs in that crazy transcript. Posted a tweet to spead the laughter.

[p0rtia]

Still reading Rudy's depo. This is epic.

So Coomer's lawyer repeated tried to get Rudy to confirm that Coomer is not mentioned in any of the stop the steal* lawsuits (presumably to make the point that Rudy knew the charges were untrue?).

Rudy gives this explanation as to why they didn't use the Coomer story (he downplays the Coomer story, though he makes a showy point of not stooping so low as to use Squidney's term "he's only a gnat" because calling someone you've just called a vicious, lying, election stealer a gnat is infradig to Rudy):

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Following this explanation, Rudy carries on for about four pages of the depo, explaining unasked and uninterrupted about how the Constitution calls upon the State Legislatures to choose electors, as per the Eastman memo, and when eventually reined in by Coomer's lawyer, wraps it up by saying, as if it wasn't clear, that he's just explaining why Coomer was a gnat, and the real way to deal with the stolen* election, since the courts had turned out to be dens of iniquity, was y'know, state legislatures and stopping Mike Pence.

Just in case anyone *ehem Garland ehem* had any doubt as to how the coup was supposed to happen, and how it will happen in 2024. Becuase the courts are y'know, "kind of old-fashioned".

[Slim Cognito]

Something I missed from Rudy's depo, he was "ordered" to represent trump for free.

https://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-te ... 11819.html

...
Giuliani replied that he was not paid to represent the campaign and had been reimbursed for only his expenses, according to the transcript. Cain then asked Giuliani why he would represent the Trump campaign without compensation.

"The president - the president ordered me to do it," Giuliani said.

It's kinda sad. Rudy is obviously not all there these days, whether it's alcoholism or something else, and trump exploited that vulnerability, then ghosted him when he couldn't deliver.

Jeez, am I going soft on Rudy?

[MsDaisy]

Something I missed from Rudy's depo, he was "ordered" to represent trump for free.

https://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-te ... 11819.html
It's kinda sad. Rudy is obviously not all there these days, whether it's alcoholism or something else, and trump exploited that vulnerability, then ghosted him when he couldn't deliver.

Jeez, am I going soft on Rudy?

I have zero sympathy for anyone who kissed trump's ass as president and hope every one of them get what they deserve for enabling him. Trump has never been anything but a crook and a con man. Like my mama use to say, "You lay down with dogs, you're getting up with fleas!" I'm so enjoying the fact that he no longer has "executive privilege" over anything and HOPEFULLY won't ever again. Good for Joe in refusing to use executive privilege to cover up all of Trump's criminal activity as president.

I know that's really burning Trump's ass but I'm sure enjoying it!

[p0rtia]

Think of it as Rudy's way of establishing that he is not responsible for his actions* and you will feel better about loathing him without exception.


*Rudy lives in a totalitarian universe where the supreme leader must be obeyed. My Earth2.

[Frater I*I]

Jeez, am I going soft on Rudy?

Probably more of pity, the same kind you would have seeing a homeless guy passed out drunk in the gutter with an empty bottle and in a puddle of his own urine...

[Sam the Centipede]

If Rudy was the homeless guy, he'd be slumped in a whole lake of many other people's urine.

[Gregg]

Not homeless, just in the days before they stopped serving Scotch after the 7th inning.

[Foggy]

That can't be Roodles, both his hands are outside his pants.

Tried to fool me, but nuh uh.