And just note that Rudy has been accused of being a raging alcoholic in a recent lawsuit.
He has been fighting against accusations of being a drunk for a while now.
Note that those articles span years. It’s nothing new.
Reportedly, even Trump was concerned about Rudy’s drinking, enough that it was the reason why he chose not to pick him as Secretary of State.
So yes, I think it’s plausible that he might be suffering some kind of mental decline due to prolonged alcohol abuse.
Doesn’t he have handlers? Couldn’t someone have pulled him aside and put him out to pasture before he did all this damage to himself (and the rest of us)?
So that would explain a lot. Thanks all.
Could this explain his eyes seeming to have a life of their own not under his control? In that video, and many others, his eyes pop wide open at times and it often doesn’t seem to be related to anything he is saying or at times when you might open your eyes wider to show “emphasis”.
According to Last Week Tonight, Rudy has had issues since the 90s but a lot of that was forgotten after 9/11
Not to mention that he’s a third-generation immigrant accusing a Black woman, whose ancestors AFAICT have been in the US since at least the early 19th century, of being “not an American”.
You would think that somebody whose family doubtless experienced within his own memory the negative effects of American nativist xenophobia would have the minimal decency not to imitate it by calling a fellow citizen “not an American”. But then you’d remember that this is Rudy Giuliani we’re talking about here, and standards of minimal decency do not apply.
Decency amongst Trumpists? Surely you jest dear lady.
The phrase he used is a simple dog-whistle. It is understood by his followers to mean “not white”
The person who had the job of keeping him from embarrassing himself too badly while drunk is the same one currently suing him for sexual harassment.
I think the headline speaks for itself but for context, it seems Jack Smith is cutting off Trump’s attempt at an ineffective counsel defense. As it turns out, relying on a drunk-ass lawyer whom you know to be drunk at any and all given moments is not a defense if you take said lawyer’s drunk-ass advice:
It also doesn’t help that (in Georgia, at least) Rudy is an indicted co-conspirator. Claiming you’re innocent because you were relying on advice from the defendant sitting next to you doesn’t strike me as a very effective tactic.
" A federal judge has determined Rudy Giuliani forfeits the defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers against him, a decision that could lead to significant penalties for the former Donald Trump attorney."
It would appear that Rudy thought that if he just ignored this defamation lawsuit, it would go away.
Didn’t work for Alex Jones, either. You would think that a lawyer (ex-lawyer?) would know better.
Linking this in all 3 current Rudy threads I see at the moment:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/politics/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers/index.html
A federal judge has determined Rudy Giuliani forfeits the defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers against him, a decision that could lead to significant penalties for the former Donald Trump attorney.
Giuliani lost the case because he struggled to maintain access to his electronic records, partly because of the cost, and couldn’t adequately respond to subpoenas from attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as the case moved forward.
Note, that it’s a forfeit due to not complying with his requirements rather than a ruling of fact for those who for whatever reason feel the need to defend Rudy’s actions on a factual basis.
It’s possible that Rudy’s strategy for this civil case is to avoid paying damages by:
Apologies: That was a very awkward merger of threads.
I regret doing it but cannot undo.
Mixing streams can be dangerous!
Or crossing them, as several eminent scientists can testify.
Link to the actual ruling