A mess
Robin Givhan
November 18, 2020 at 7:20 p.m. EST
... His return to federal court as a practicing attorney, for the first time in nearly three decades, would not be the worst of Giuliani’s water-carrying for Trump, but it was, perhaps, the saddest. It was so small and petty. He was in Pennsylvania court Tuesday not to tell a convoluted tale of international intrigue about shadowy figures and powerful people skulking around in Ukraine. His story of malfeasance was closer to home and it was simply mean. Giuliani argued that a vast swathe of perfectly reasonable, good-hearted Americans masterminded a huge scheme that cheated Trump out of reelection. Giuliani couldn’t offer any evidence that this awful plot existed, but nevertheless he was sure it did and it just so happened to be centered in places like Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit, which have substantial populations of Black and brown people.
... we like to believe .. age comes wisdom. The truth .. may be .. age .. makes people more obviously what they’ve always been. Freed of the .. need .. define themselves for a future .. yet to unfold, people can simply be. Giuliani .. has revealed himself to be a man who believes that he can summon truth from falsehoods, bend the law to his will and conjure .. reality .. simply by speaking ...
In court, Giuliani alleged “widespread nationwide voter fraud of which this is a part.” And then he admitted, that, well, there wasn’t fraud in the legal sense, just in the hysterical, made-up Trumpian sense ...
... being labeled America’s mayor was .. marketing ...
There was little room in that image for the rest of his story, which included trying to extend his New York mayoral term beyond its limits by delaying the inauguration of his successor ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/18/rudy-giuliani-is-mess/
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