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Post by the Scribe on Oct 22, 2020 2:27:35 GMT
Who is Rudy Giuliani? Former New York City Mayor Turned Trump Lawyer | NowThis169,944 views•Jul 19, 2018
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Here’s how former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani went from writing “Vote democratic!” in his classmates yearbooks to defending Trump’s ‘locker room talk’ degrading women. This episode is narrated by comedian Lizz Winstead.
It's no pee tape but Trump 'motorboating' Giuliani is certainly a disturbing visual. Rudy Giulinani, Trump's lawyer (one of many) was tapped with the task of cleaning up the Russia investigation. How did he handle this you may ask? By redirecting America's attention, and the media's focus, on the Stormy Daniels lawsuit.
In a Fox News exclusive interview, Rudy Giuliani spilled the beans that the President did reimburse Michael Cohen for paying porn star and executive Stormy Daniels $130K, a revelation that Sean Hannity wasn't ready for. He also went on to say that Daniels has no reputation, comparing her to Donald Trump's wives saying, "Look at his [Trump's] three wives, beautiful women, classy women, women of great substance. Stormy Daniels?...Explain to me how she could be damaged? She has no reputation."
This is how former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani went from staunch democrat, idolizing John F. Kennedy, to working for former President Gerald Ford, to switching to the republican party during the Reagan administration, to aiding President Trump in redirecting attention away from the Russia investigation by focusing on the Stormy Daniels lawsuit.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 22, 2020 2:27:44 GMT
Caught in shocking 'Borat 2' bedroom scene with young woman, Rudy Giuliani claims he's the victim: 'Everybody in Hollywood hates me'www.yahoo.com/entertainment/borat-2-rudy-giuliani-scene-controversy-213406089.html
Kevin Polowy Senior Correspondent, Yahoo Entertainment
Yahoo MoviesWed, October 21, 2020, 2:34 PM MST
The latest October surprise erupted on Wednesday and came courtesy of an unexpected source: Borat provocateur and prankster Sacha Baron Cohen.
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to President Trump, became the focus of the news cycle after being caught on film in a shocking and compromising scene in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Cohen’s new sequel to his subversive 2006 breakout mockumentary, Borat.
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 01: President Donald Trump's lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to journalists outside the White House West Wing July 01, 2020 in Washington, DC. Giuliani did an on-camera interview with One America News Network's Chanel Rion before talking to other journalists about Vice President Joe Biden and the news that Russian intelligence may have paid Taliban operatives to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Rudy Giuliani. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In one of the film’s final stunts, Borat’s daughter, Tutar (Maria Bakalova), poses as a reporter for a fake far-right news outlet called Patriots Report, which has somehow wangled an on-camera interview with Giuliani at a New York City hotel.
Tutar gushes over the controversial politician, displaying faux nervousness over meeting “one of her greatest heroes.” There’s a flirty undertone to their whole exchange — along with an undeniable creepiness — and at one point the pair offers a toast with what appears to be whisky. Though there doesn’t appear to be anyone else from a video crew present in the hotel suite, Cohen does at one point crash the interview, posing in disguise as a sound technician, but Giuliani clearly doesn’t recognize the comedian before he exits.
The interview itself is inflammatory: “China manufactured the virus and let it out, and they deliberately spread it around the world,” says Giuliani, embracing a disproven internet conspiracy theory.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova in 'Borat 2' (Amazon Prime)
Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova in 'Borat 2.' (Amazon Prime)
But then the situation becomes more fraught: Bakalova, whose character, Tutar, is oft-referred to as being only 15 years old, leads Giuliani into an adjacent bedroom. Giuliani suggests Bakalova give him her phone number and address as they remove each other’s microphones. Guiliani pats Bakalova on the waist. Then, lying on his back on the bed, Giuliani lowers his hand into his pants as Bakalova stands nearby.
At that point, Cohen comes crashing back into the room — this time wearing a wig and women’s undergarments. “She’s 15, she’s too old for you!” Cohen yells.
Giuliani quickly bolts, calling to his security detail in the hallway. “Rudy, Trump will be disappointed. You are leaving hotel without golden shower,” Cohen shouts after him.
Although the scene was filmed months ago, Giuliani appeared on New York’s WABC radio and claimed his inclusion in the movie was in retaliation for the unconfirmed story that he delivered to the New York Post last week claiming Joe Biden’s son Hunter was involved in shady business dealings.
“I had to take off the electronic equipment,” Giuliani said. “And when the electronic equipment came off, some of it was in the back and my shirt ... came a little out, although my clothes were entirely on. I leaned back, and I tucked my shirt in, and at that point, at that point, they have this picture they take which looks doctored, but in any event, I’m tucking my shirt in. I assure you that’s all I was doing.”
“They’ll do anything. They’ve attacked me over everything possible, investigated every business dealing I’ve ever had,” he said. “And now the idiot Borat is going after me with a totally sensationalized false account of a ridiculous movie I guess that he’s done.
“Now let me tell you why I know this is a hit job that happens because it’s not an accident that it happens when I turn in all this evidence on their prince and darling Joe Biden, who’s one of the biggest crooks in the last 30 years, and since I have the courage to say that, I’m the target.”
Giuliani subsequently took to Twitter to profess his innocence — though he has not explained why he followed Bakalova into the bedroom, patted her waist, asked for her personal information or lay down on his back.
The To Catch a Predator moment is perhaps the most stunning in a film that has an abundance of them, from Cohen ordering a cake frosted with the Charlottesville cries of “Jews will not replace us” to persuading QAnon adherents in Washington state to let him stay in their house to turning up dressed in full Ku Klux Klan regalia at the Conservative Political Action Conference where Vice President Mike Pence is speaking.
Reviews for Borat 2 — which have been mostly positive — began being published Wednesday morning, but word of the scandalous Giuliani scene quickly dominated social media.
Among the biggest outstanding questions: Did Giuliani know the age of the reporter he was speaking to? (Although she was playing a teenager in the film, Bakalova is 24 in real life, according to IMDb.) And why did Giuliani’s team agree to do an interview with an unverified news outlet in the first place? (Giuliani said in the radio interview that he thought the outlet was “legitimate.”)
Back in July, Giuliani spokeswoman Christianné Allen suggested in a series of tweets that they had “foiled Sacha Cohen’s attempted scam-interview, ultimately ending in a stupefied Cohen.”
Allen, apparently unaware of her boss’s bedroom activities caught on film, added in subsequent tweets: “Cohen barged onto the set screaming hysterically while wearing a multi-colored bikini with a mesh sash.
“Un-fooled and placid, Mayor Giuliani notified security to call the police. It was then, upon hearing the word police, Cohen turned from a screaming banshee into a fleeing hyena. I hear he was last seen running down the street in his bathrobe. Better luck next time, Sacha!”
In his radio interview on Wednesday, Giuliani reiterated that his team called the police on Cohen. The former mayor also portrayed himself as the victim. “Everybody in Hollywood hates me, you know, right?” he said. “I’m a devil in Hollywood. Nothing about me comes out in that period of time, nothing sensational about me in the movie. Now all of a sudden there’s all this sensational stuff about me in the movie. Don’t know if it was added, doctored, manipulated, whatever.
“I was fully clothed at all times.”
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm premieres Friday on Amazon Prime.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 24, 2020 1:20:53 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 24, 2020 1:23:27 GMT
More like a blow job Rudy.
Rudy Giuliani calls ‘Borat 2’ scene a ‘hit job’www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rudy-giuliani-calls-borat-2-232239679.html
Yahoo EntertainmentWed, October 21, 2020, 4:22 PM MST
The latest October surprise erupted on Wednesday and came courtesy of an unexpected source: Borat provocateur and prankster Sacha Baron Cohen. Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, became the focus of the news cycle after being caught on film in a shocking and compromising scene in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," Cohen’s new sequel to his subversive 2006 breakout mockumentary "Borat."
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2020 2:25:18 GMT
Rudy Giuliani suggests cutting heads of Democrats in Fox interview after disastrous press conferencenews.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-suggests-cutting-heads-155445031.html
Justin Vallejo
Fri, November 20, 2020, 8:54 AM MST·2 min read
Rudy Giuliani suggests cutting heads of Democrats in Fox interview (Fox News)
Rudy Giuliani followed his hair-raising press conference with an even more peculiar, but less leaky, Fox News interview suggesting the decapitation of the "corrupt Democrat" establishment.
www.independent.co.uk/topic/rudy-giuliani
In an interview with Sean Hannity, Mr Giuliani made a throat chopping gesture as he spoke about the Democratic party leadership since the Clinton administration.
www.independent.co.uk/topic/sean-hannity
www.independent.co.uk/topic/clinton
He prefaced that he wasn't talking about ordinary Democrats before commenting: "Somehow the Democrat party was hijacked by Clinton and since then has gotten more corrupt and more corrupt and more corrupt. Somebody better cut their head off."
The Clinton reference echoed the core claims from the Trump campaign's earlier "path to victory" press conference where Mr Giuliani spun a web of connections in his theory of a "national conspiracy" behind a communist plot backed by Venezuela's Hugo Chaves, in concert with Cuba and China, tied to Democrat leadership through the Clinton Foundation and George Soros.
Mr Giuliani's suggestion to give them all the chop gave even Mr Hannity a moment's pause as he ignored the comments and changed the subject before either he or someone in the studio's control room gave the interview the chop.
"Alright Mr Mayor thank you… I'm not trying to cut you off. Are you there? Oh, we've lost him. Alright," Mr Hannity said before moving on to the next segment.
The Fox News interview on Thursday night came just hours after Mr Giuliani held a 1.5-hour press conference that made more headlines for his impression of the movie My Cousin Vinny and leaking hair dye than the evidence provided to support the Trump campaign's claims of election impropriety.
Between the viral clips, the so-called "Kraken" of evidence released by the campaign's lawyers was made up of hundreds of affidavits in key states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where they hope to overturn the results.
Their star witness, via affidavit, was City of Detroit employee Jessie Jacob, who Mr Giuliani quoted as swearing under penalty of perjury that she was instructed by supervisors to backdate ballots to make them valid.
The US cybersecurity official fired by Donald Trump, Chris Krebs, said it was the "most dangerous" 1 hour and 45 minutes in the history of American television.
www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump
"And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky," Mr Krebes said in a tweet.
Mr Krebs, who as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released a statement last week saying the 3 November election was the most secure in American history.
“There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," said the statement from CISA, which is part of the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2020 2:27:05 GMT
We Need to Talk About Rudy Giuliani's Hair
447,111 views•Jul 26, 2019
Rudy Giuliani appears to sweat hair dye as he makes election claims without evidence
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 10, 2020 20:29:52 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on May 18, 2023 18:32:29 GMT
Chip Franklin DISMANTLES Rudy Giuliani for ruining on the title of "America's Mayor." #shorts
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Post by the Scribe on May 21, 2023 19:09:19 GMT
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Giuliani Aide Told Me Presidential Pardon Would Cost Me $2 Million
Democracy Now!
523,243 views May 18, 2023 Latest Shows
Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons during the Trump administration, after his former employee Noelle Dunphy filed a $10 million lawsuit against Giuliani accusing him of sexual assault and other misconduct. The complaint alleges Giuliani “asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split.” Dunphy is not the first person to publicly reveal this scheme; CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou has previously divulged that he was among those asked to pay up in return for a clean slate. “This lawsuit is the first that I heard that money was supposed to be split with President Trump,” he tells Democracy Now! Kiriakou, who did not ultimately get a pardon, says he was told by a Giuliani aide not to bother with a formal application and that it would be handled informally. “It was all supposed to be hush-hush,” he says.
Transcript: www.democracynow.org/2023/5/1...
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 30, 2023 2:16:36 GMT
The New Republic
Federal Prosecutors Want to Know How Drunk Giuliani Was While Advising Trump
Tori Otten
Tue, August 29, 2023 at 11:47 AM MST·2 min read
news.yahoo.com/jack-smith-wants-know-drunk-184752167.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
This isn’t the first time that Giuliani’s alleged drunkenness has come up in a lawsuit. Giuliani’s former associate Noelle Dunphy sued him in May, accusing him of promising to pay her a $1 million annual salary but instead raping and sexually abusing her over the course of two years. Her lawsuit alleges that Giuliani was constantly drunk, talked openly about trying to overturn the 2020 election, and even plotted to sell pardons with Donald Trump for $2 million each.
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