The really funny and weird thing is that in 2008, Giuliani was an ultra-establishment figure that couldn’t get any sort of traction with the growing-nuttier GOP rank-and-file primary voters, almost like Jeb!.
And look at him now! You’d have trouble convincing me that there aren’t some real neurological shifts over the last decade (of course, you could say the same of Trump).
Instead, he’s coming off as an unintentionally funny court jester who accidentally tells the truth about the king.
He might be losing capacity, but he’s hardly the only person to toss the establishment etiquette book in the air and go in feet first for Trumpism. It’s like the Ionesco play “Rhinoceros” with everyone in an entire major party being grotesquely transmogrified into little fascist Trumpians.
The swamp has no bottom. This could go on for years.
I think they prepare less when they’re on CNN as they know that the people who matter only watch Fox News. When on Fox, Rudy is fully armed with his insane conspiracy theories about the deep state and Hillary and fake news. The base laps it up and as a result 30% of America truly believes the “Deep State” is out to overturn the election result, that no evidence collusion exists, and all the other nonsense they spout over in the craziest corner of the world. Its the PR presidency and I think they know exactly what they’re doing and they’re succeeding.
That makes sense about the preparation, but this:
Is just funny.
Mueller is not surprised.
I’ll bet there’s a date with Mr Mueller in Rudy’s future no matter how you cut it.
And Rudy’s doing everything he can to ensure that that date takes place.
I am on two minds, on one hand, it might just plainly be screwing up and giving the game away. But on the other hand, he might want to get past all the lies that the Trump defense has been dragging uphill for months, like the Stormy payment, it was a lie that nobody believed and worse, that prosecutors could disprove, so if he let Trump keep repeating it he is digging himself a bigger hole, out with it. Next, the wiretaps, again everybody that counts knows what happened, why keep BSing about it?
This is obvious and blatant hyperbole. Trump would NEVER deny himself cheeseburgers. He would have the Marine stationed at the door take the cheeseburgers, THEN kick Rudy to the curb. He would then watch him shivering in the cold from a West Wing window, eating said cheeseburgers.
Why should we take anything Giuliani says as factual, particularly words he puts in other people’s mouths that aren’t confirmed. “Mueller’s agreed to limit the interview” and “Mueller’s promised not to indict Trump” means nothing coming from Trump’s lawyer who is known to lie on behalf of his lying client. It’s just a tactic so that when the interview ISN’T limited or Mueller indicts Trump, the can scream that Mueller broke his word and can’t be trusted, since Mueller can’t comment on Giuliani’s lies.
Interviewer should also hit him with "Can you prove that is what Mueller said? Do you have it in writing officially? If the answer is no, then Giuliani is lying, period.
I’ll agree that it’s a PR presidency. For Trump, it’s more than 99 percent that. (Others use him for their own ends.) Now, not to pile on, but the second and third ideas there I’m not with you on. They screw up continually, and that began the first week. If they’re succeeding, other than by wrecking stuff as the nation and world look on in shock and horror, they’re succeeding in a way I fail to recognize.
Yeah I questioned that part myself. If Trump sends you out for cheeseburgers he’s going to take and eat the cheeseburgers, no matter what else happens.
As long as Rudy remains a sycophantic ass-kisser to trump he will stay on board. That is more important than competence or even sanity to this bunch.
I can’t C&P the video., but it’s Cris C asking Rudy about Trump being subpoenaed v/v Clinton.
I hear ya, but all the polling suggests that 30% is fully on-board with the “Witch Hunt” narrative, and will not budge. And I believe I read recently that that figure has been ticking upward lately.
It’s the “There is no such thing as bad PR”-presidency…
What if the cheeseburgers had been reheated in the Obama spy-microwave, huh, smart guy? What then?
Sez who? Sez who?
Cheeseburger? Cheeseburger? YOU’RE the cheeseburger!
I have to wonder if Trump hired Rudy to fulfill one of his ego-trips - New York real estate mogul has former mayor of New York kissing his feet and obeying his every beck and call.
It would help to explain why Rudy still has a job…
