He’s a stable genius too.
According to the Daily Beast, he’s been heavily lobbying Trump to be made a member of the defense team in the Impeachment trial. And Trump’s people are madly trying to prevent it:
Giuliani, who has acted as Trump’s attorney for free since early 2018, has been “working Trump hard” to be included among the lawyers who will defend him on the floor of the Senate, according to an informal adviser close to the White House who spoke on condition of anonymity. […]
The former New York City mayor has, however, made it clear in recent public statements that he would enjoy arguing Trump’s case before the Senate. “I’d try the case. I’d love to try the case,” Giuliani told reporters at Trump’s New Year’s Eve party for paying guests at his Palm Beach resort. “I don’t know if anybody would have the courage to give me the case. But if you give me the case, I will prosecute it as a racketeering case.”
It’s been a while since Rudy was in a courtroom but you’d think he’d at least understand that he would be the defense lawyer not the prosecution. But then, he’s also a constitutional expert these days, so perhaps he thinks he’d be the judge as well.
And Saturday night, Giuliani told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro he would ask for the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss the case against Trump, which, in his view, would have the effect of expunging the impeachment from Trump’s record. “I would say if it’s nonconstitutional, it’s null and void,” he said.
Trump responded by posting a tweet of the interview with the statement: “Thank you Rudy!”
The interview was demented. Rudy had clearly had a few:
If you can’t stand to hear either of them, Daily Beast had a rundown of the lunacy:
Claiming that the abuse of power and obstruction of Congress charges against Trump are essentially made up, Giuliani said, “The remedy is to go before the Supreme Court of the United States and have it declared unconstitutional.”
Acknowledging that “there’s nothing in the Constitution that would allow the Supreme Court” to do that, Giuliani said: “There’s also nothing in the Constitution … that allows the Supreme Court to declare a law of Congress unconstitutional. Marshall made it up.”
“Suppose somebody charged me with not looking nice tonight … and brought me on trial before the New York Supreme Court. … It would be dismissed,” he said.
“The rules are set by the Senate. Then the Chief Justice interprets the rules. The Chief Justice will be given the power to dismiss,” Giuliani argued.
If the impeachment trial is not blocked, he said, Trump would be “acquitted” but there would be no limits on impeachment and then “the next group of maybe crazy Republicans are going to go after some Democrat.”
I guess he was too busy shutting down art museums for showing art he found offensive to remember when the Republicans impeached a president over an inappropriate but consensual affair.
“I can even argue that politically it would be better to go to trial! They’ll find out about Biden, they’ll find out what a big crook Biden is,” Giuliani said.
Apparently forgetting about Ukraine entirely—the country where his own crusade to expose Biden’s supposed corruption has proven central to the impeachment proceedings—Giuliani said a trial means that “they’ll find out that Biden just didn’t make money in Iran, but he made money in China, and he made money in Iraq.”
I really don’t think Trump should go to trial without his trusted sidekick, do you? And if he’s right there in the “courtroom” it will make it easy for the Senators to ask him personally (in the period where they get to ask questions) about his own involvement in the crimes the president is accused of. Very convenient.
Rudy Giuliani’s role in this administration will be remembered as one of the most batshit crazy elements of a batshit crazy time.
If we survive, of course.