American Monster: Rudy Giuliani — ‘A Dictator In Search of a Balcony’
Part seven in a series about US criminals accelerating global fascism
“Truth isn’t truth.”—Rudy Giuliani, American Monster
Meet the Press — a platform for US traitors to bullhorn Kremlin talking points — invited Trump’s public defender Rudy Giuliani on TV to lie to America.
The date was August 19, 2018. Giuliani, who still had some pocket lint of credibility in uninformed circles, was present to obfuscate truth. Trump, his uniquely criminal loss-leader was in the headwinds of the Mueller investigation and though he’d never met a camera he didn’t like, he demurred the request to testify in front of Robert Mueller.
A veteran criminal is aware that lying under oath is no bueno.
This was back when Giuliani still had the ability to practice law and could be a somewhat useful idiot obfuscater.
Trump’s other personal lawyers — like his campaign managers — had met disgraced endings. Disbarred, indicted, imprisoned, and/or pushing up daisies after being disbarred and disgraced, Giuliani still had a pulse so there in front of a national TV audience — looking every bit the drunktional apparatchik — he noted he didn’t want Trump to testify in case he’s ‘trapped into perjury’.
And then with Orwellian parasitizing, he said that ‘truth isn’t truth’.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”
-George Orwell, 1984
“Fascist politics creates a state of unreality, in which conspiracy theories and fake news replace reasoned debate. As the common understanding of reality crumbles, fascist politics makes room for dangerous and false beliefs to take root.”-Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works
Truth is kryptonite for Trump’s criminal gang so they throw lies to the hungry base, keeping them well fed on a diet of unreality. Truth, like sunlight to a vampire, might cause discomfort when one’s viewpoint is based on a per diem of three squares of bullshit.
Sadly, for Giuliani, he got high on his own supply.
“We’re only gonna die from our own arrogance.”—Bad Religion
The downfall of America’s Mayor — as he was known in his post-9/11 period, when he could command millions of dollars for speeches — is nothing short of spectacular to those who bought the myth.
‘A Drop of 60 Points’
"Look at this — a drop of 60 points over the last 21 years," CNN data reporter Harry Enten said in his analysis of Giuliani’s plunge.
During a news segment, he showed a graphic which revealed Giuliani’s favorability rating as he left the office of New York City mayor in 2002 (76%) beside his present day rating (16%).
Among the reasons for his nosedive:
Becoming a chief propagandist for Putin proxy Trump
Becoming a stochastic terrorist, detonating words such as ‘trial by combat’ in advance of the Insurrection
Spreading election lies, which led to criminal charges in Georgia and suspension of his law license in New York and Washington DC — deemed a public threat
Lying about two Georgia election workers, which led to a federal judge issuing a default judgment, ordering Giuliani to pay sanctions of nearly $133,000 in a defamation and civil conspiracy lawsuit
Investigations into his longterm Russian ties
An FBI raid for his role in the Ukraine disinformation plot to attempt to destroy Joe Biden
Opportunistic use of the falsely imprisoned Central Park 5 as his mayoral springboard
Leaks that Jack Smith is probing his alcoholism
Release of audio transcripts as part of a lawsuit brought by a former staffer alleging he forced her to have oral sex and intercourse
The staffer's lawsuit also alleges Giuliani attempted to sell presidential pardons for $2 million
Likely a coconspirator in a federal indictment of Trump
Like the Cult of the Genius Tech Bro, the myth created around Giuliani is not holding up under scrutiny — there’s a growing awareness that his legacy of being a hero was largely false.
Village Voice Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett was among the first to debunk the myth.
His book, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, reported Harold Giuliani served a one-and-a-half year term in Sing Sing prison after robbing a milkman at gunpoint in 1934, a decade before his son was born.
Barrett also reported that Harold Giuliani was the “muscle” for loan sharks, writing that he “broke legs, smashed kneecaps (and) crunched noses”.
Giuliani didn’t deny the claims and court documents backed them up.
‘A Dictator Looking for a Balcony’
Twenty years after Barrett’s book, in 2020, Giuliani was like a demented game show host, prolifically appearing on TV and in kangaroo courts, to lie about Trump’s loss. He became the butt of jokes as a chronic butt dialer — leaving private messages on reporters’ phones, where he could be heard talking about money problems and trashing Biden.
That fact that he looked like shit and farted in public only punctuated his lying losing streak.
He is now one of 19 people facing RICO charges in a 98-page indictment in Georgia. Giuliani has been charged with 13 felony counts of racketeering, making false statements, and writings.
Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio once called him "the antichrist."
In a four-part series from TIME Studios and MSNBC Films, When Truth Isn’t Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story — filmmaker Rebecca Gitlitz told People Magazine that before 2001, Giuliani was a polarizing figure.
"He's always been a deeply racist, deeply misogynistic, deeply opportunist and ego-driven person. Rudy's journey has always been about opportunity and skirting the law and skirting the system.. My favorite line of the entire documentary is that Rudy 'is a dictator looking for a balcony.”
—Rebecca Gitlitz, When Truth Isn’t Truth
In bold evidence of karma, the man who invented the perp walk — often exploiting for his own personal gain the arrests of people who were later exonerated — just got his very own mugshot.
Just as Trump disposed of Roy Cohn when he was no longer able to practice law, Giuliani is following in Cohn’s criminal footsteps as he faces disbarment for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. ETTD.
‘A Walking Mal Practice’
Retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil worked with Giuliani in the ‘80s, and below are his insights:
MARTIN SHEIL: Rudy's fall from grace was far from a run of the mill Hollywood flash in the pan. This was a guy who was a Shining Star in the legal universe known as the Southern (Sovereign) District of New York, who took down mafioso capos and Wall Street moguls.
This is a guy who was So Big he could take the self-effacing route to stardom in an interview on Fox and characterize himself as a "fair country lawyer" while making his King of New York lawyer bones in a St. Andrews Plaza courthouse office in downtown Manhattan nestled next to the Brooklyn Bridge, just a block from City Hall.
Rudy went on to become "America's mayor" when the entire country adopted NYC as their own upon the demise of the World Trade Center at the hands of terrorists 22-years ago to the day of this writing.
A WALKING MAL PRACTICE
Rudy was larger then life back then so how do we explain the diminishing of this star? Senator Mike Lee — a flaming conservative pol from Utah who was once considered for a seat on SCOTUS - characterized Rudy as "a Walking Mal Practice".
A CNN special delved into this matter and hypothesized that Rudy started believing his own press clippings and took off in hot pursuit of the ultimate political ambition - the Presidency - and flew too close to the sun and just like in mythology crashed and burned when the voting public did not share in his self-adulation.
His fall was nothing short of Shakespearian, helped no doubt with a soupcon here and there of Remy Martin cognac found on the very top shelves of rooms off the Oval office in the White House when Donald Trump was holding court post-election. Cognac and cigars became a go-to habit of Rudy's when surrounded by folks who never let him buy his own.
So Rudy's ego was nourished by glad-handlers and wannabe nobodies and his once machine-like brain became addled by freebie beverages and Cuban stogies. Rudy actually started to believe that he could address judges in court the same way he bald-faced lied to talking heads at Fox News.
Rudy found out the hard way that you can't talk to judges the same way you talk to politicians and news clowns on the right, and he got himself slapped down to the point he was disbarred in NY where he once reigned King.
The low points came for Rudy when he was taped making up more lies for MAGA types in front of an adult boutique-adjacent landscape storefront and in another memorable appearance, his hair dye was painting sideburns down his face — accentuating the lies emanating from his mouth in support of election fraud.
The guy who was so successful filing suits against high finance types and powerful mobsters found himself on the other end of the most mundane suits for defamation.
The unraveling has been a long time in the making. More than two years ago, I wrote “Rudy Giuliani — How An Expanded SDNY FARA Investigation Could Be a Nightmare”.
That Rudy got himself indicted for RICO charges he once made famous became the ultimate irony and led to the current sad state of affairs where he has to now beg for charity to pay for his own legal bills because he cannot even represent himself in court where he has been disbarred. But that ignominy might be the system doing a final favor for him.
A FOOL FOR A CLIENT
Rudy has been spared in the end from representing himself and having a fool for a client and a legal representative who is/was "walking malpractice."
Rudy had to sell his upper westside Manhattan house to pay for some of his legal bills. He may find a cellmate in the not too distant future but Rudy will have to sacrifice his cherished Remy and his cellmate will likely have to go cold turkey on Big Macs, and Justice will have ultimately been served. It will be hammered by a final gavel stroke brought on by a young aspiring country prosecutor by the name of Fani Willis.
Rudy will have to swallow some RICO counts straight up, no chaser — and the final ignominy — no hair dye will be allowed in the Fulton County jailhouse.
Karma.—Martin Sheil for Bette Dangerous, September 11, 2023
Karma comes for all dictators seeking balconies — foreign or domestic, as Gandhi reminds us.
In a report this week, an FBI whistleblower said Giuliani may have been compromised by the Kremlin, and FBI leaders didn’t care. The agent, Jonathan Buma, said his leads tying Giuliani to Russian intelligence, were dismissed by his supervisors. The question both Marty and I have in regards to the allegation that the FBI under Trump suppressed investigations into Giuliani’s Russian links is — did the FBI head of counter intelligence in New York, the indicated Charles McGonigal, play a role?
It is well worth you time to watch this Insider clip below where Special Agent Buma explains the hard on the FBI had for Hunter Biden, and the disinterest in probing Giuliani being potentially comprised by the Kremlin:
Myth Busters
In Giuliani’s ungainly mugshot, there are no traces of myth. Just the visage of another US criminal accelerating global fascism, who is safer for the world behind bars. There, he can use what’s left of his legal skills to be of service to his fellow inmates, some of whom undoubtedly got a bad rap.
(Dipsomaniac Giuliani given the gift of desperation)
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Here are the first six in the American Monster series:
American Monsters
Here are the first six American Monsters in the order in which they were written. It is helpful to see the connections between these US criminals accelerating global fascism. No. 1 — Paul Manafort: No. 2 — Roger Stone No. 3 — Roy Cohn No. 4 — Donald Trump
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