Here I thought Trump was offended by drunkenness
One of the big myths about Donald Trump was he observed his older brother become and alcoholic and was so repulsed by it that he not only doesn’t drink himself he refuses to be associated with people who drink too much. This story about Rudy being bombed on election night explodes all that. So, like everything else, it was a lie.
Anyway, Rudy is lashing out:
“I am disgusted and outraged at the out right lie by Jason Miller and Bill Steppien. I was upset that they were not prepared for the massive cheating (as well as other lawyers around the President) I REFUSED all alcohol that evening. My favorite drink..Diet Pepsi,” Mr Giuliani said in a tweet on Tuesday morning. [He deleted it later]
“They have no case,” he told Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House chief strategist who now hosts a show on Real America’s Voice. “This is a follow-up to Russian collusion, Ukrainian conversation – the millions of hours they’ve spent trying to find a crime on Donald Trump and can’t do it. They started this frame about five years ago.”
“It’s the same cast of characters, Bennie Thompson, and shifty [Adam Schiff], you see [Eric] Swalwell, not on the committee, but in the background,” he added. “The completely hysterical … Cheney, who has gone off her deep end.”
Mr Giuliani then demanded that the committee investigate the baseless conspiracy theory that rioter Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by police as she attempted to get through a barricaded door inside the US Capitol not far from lawmakers, was actually killed by Antifa.
“Five days after the riot, I submitted to the FBI unequivocal evidence that Antifa organized one of the main break-ins, that Antifa was involved in the killing of Ashli Babbitt, that the cops abandoned the position so that the people could go into the [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi office – cops abandoned it two minutes before,” Mr Giuliani said.
The drunk story isn’t actually news. It was reported earlier:
Rudy Giuliani was so drunk on election night that former President Donald Trump’s aides were concerned he’d accidentally smash valuable White House china, presidential biographer Michael Wolff told MSNBC.
Wolff described how on the night of November 3, 2020, the former New York City mayor was struggling to maintain his balance while trying to convince others that Trump had won re-election.
At one point, he was pulled aside into the White House’s china room by several aides of the former president, Raw Story reported. “And at that moment, Rudy was incredibly drunk, weaving this way and that way,” Wolff told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Friday afternoon.
“And the china, those place settings from every president are very valuable, and Trump’s aides were obviously, or rightfully, concerned about what Giuliani was saying to the president about the election, and giving him this misinformation,” Wolff continued. “But they were also concerned that he was going to break the china.”
He was literally reeling. Nonetheless he told Trump what he wanted to hear and Trump ignored everyone else and went out and said he’d won even though they had not counted most of the votes and none of the networks had called it. Drunk or not, Rudy was Trump’s most valued adviser through thick and thin.
Here are the comedians’ take on this:
Here’s something I wrote about Rudy a few years ago. He’s been reeling all over the world for years.
This was a party in Jerusalem in 2018: