Here we go:
The FBI warned Rudolph W. Giuliani in late 2019 that he was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage President Biden politically ahead of last year’s election, according to people familiar with the matter.
The warning was part of an extensive effort by the bureau to alert members of Congress and at least one conservative media outlet, One America News, that they faced a risk of being used to further Russia’s attempt to influence the election’s outcome, said several current and former U.S. officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains highly sensitive.
Giuliani received the FBI’s warning while deeply involved with former president Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and related activities in Ukraine to surface unflattering or incriminating information about the Biden family. The revelation comes as the FBI this week seized Giuliani’s cellphone and other electronic devices as part of a long-running criminal investigation into whether the onetime New York mayor and personal attorney for Trump acted as an unregistered foreign agent.
We don’t need no stinking FARA.
“Good mayor, awful man,” says former New York City police commissioner William Bratton at the end of the first clip below.
Treat yourself to Chris Hayes’s interview with former New York Daily News reporter Michael Daly (now at the Daily Beast; timestamp 2:30). One amazing Rudy Giuliani anecdote after another, including how the has-been became “America’s Mayor.”
“Michael Cohen says that Rudy’s dumb,” Daly says. “He’s not at all dumb. He’s just nuts.”
“He just is,” Daly continues. “This is a guy, he used to scream about parole, the evils of parole. And it turns out that he was conceived when his father was on parole for armed robbery. And Rudy wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for parole.”
He wouldn’t exist now if it weren’t for Trump and the Russians.