In Defending Trump, Is Giuliani a Shrewd Tactician -- or 'Untethered'?

[DonViejo]

Rudolph Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, detailed for the first time his strategy for representing the president, in blunt and divisively political terms.

By Dan Barry, Benjamin Weiser and Alan Feuer
Aug. 27, 2018

The man identified these days as President Trump’s lawyer seems vaguely familiar. It’s in the way he feigns genuine laughter. How he clasps his hands. How he widens his eyes, as if he’s just been handed a birthday cake with a firecracker for a candle.

He is, of course, Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose public utterances of late have people debating whether he is a shrewd manipulator of public opinion or just — befuddled. But all agree that he relishes the limelight, every microphone a corkscrew capable of unleashing the spirits of his considerable id.

Indeed, he is working for the president free of charge.

There Mr. Giuliani was again on Thursday, opining from a Trump-owned golf course in Scotland while dressed in green-plaid golf togs bearing the Trump name. When a reporter from Sky News asked whether he thought that impeachment of President Trump was inevitable, Mr. Giuliani defended his client with a few provocative assertions before closing with:

“You’d only impeach him for political reasons, and the American people would revolt against that.”

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[shraby]

1. I think he's slipped his harness.

[2naSalit]

2. Untethered is just a desireable trait for this...

he is a supreme gaslighter and shithead so there's that. He's fomenting violence and civil unrest and should be in legal trouble for doing so. I don't think he's even come back from Scotland yet, in which case, his passport should be cancelled.

[Paladin]

3. Rudy abandoned all shrewdness when he hooked up with trump.

Like the new book title reads: "Everything Trump Touches Dies"

[Voltaire2]

4. He's an untethered sphincter.

An incontinent old man without his depends.