He insisted he wasn’t crazy
Rudy Giuliani talked to a reporter for New York magazine the other day.
As we sped uptown, he spoke in monologue about the scandal he co-created, weaving one made-up talking point into another and another. He said former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, whom he calls Santa Maria Yovanovitch, is “controlled” by George Soros. “He put all four ambassadors there. And he’s employing the FBI agents.” I told him he sounded crazy, but he insisted he wasn’t.
The sarcasm is interesting. She did her job, and she answered questions before Congress, therefore Giuliani mocks her. She’s not a criminal or a traitor, so let’s sneer at her as a saint.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” he said. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”
But “Jew” doesn’t mean just “someone who goes to synagogue.” If it did there would have been fewer Jews killed in the genocide.
In the grand tradition of Soros conspiracy theorists, Giuliani believes the media is doing the billionaire’s bidding by printing lies about him, yet he often bungles his own attempts to discredit the media’s reporting. While attempting to argue that, despite what has been written, “I have no business interests in Ukraine,” he told me about his business interests in Ukraine.
“I’ve done two business deals in Ukraine. I’ve sought four or five others,” he said. Since he’s been representing the president, he said, he has been approached with two opportunities in Ukraine, both of which he turned down to avoid accusations of impropriety.
“The one that I really wanted to do,” Giuliani said, was a lawsuit on behalf of the Ukrainian government against a large financial institution he claims laundered $7 billion for Viktor Yanukovych, the former president. “It would’ve had nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with Burisma, nothing to do with Biden,” he said. He then explained that the reason why he “really wanted” to take on the case was to learn about Ukrainian money laundering, “so I could figure out they utilize the same money-laundering system for Hunter Biden.”
That’s especially interesting because he’s a lawyer, a lawyer and a former prosecutor. You’d think a prosecutor would be well alert to the importance of keeping his stories consistent.
And then there’s the Southern District of New York, the biggest betrayal of all. That was supposed to be his world, full of his guys; he ran the office for most of the ’80s. It was unrecognizable now. “If they’re investigating me, they’re assholes. They’re absolutely assholes if they’re investigating me,” he said.
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“If they are, they’re idiots,” he went on. “Then they really are a Trump-deranged bunch of silly New York liberals.”
Again…for the millionth time…I don’t get this. It’s not about being liberal, it’s about Trump’s many crimes and brutalities. It’s not just “liberals” who object to crimes and brutalities. Apparently I have more respect for conservatives than Trumpy conservatives do.
But Ophelia, if you say the Nazis killed Jews over biology rather than religion, then you might as well say that women are oppressed for their biology rather than their gender. Do you really want to go there? /s
Great job excerpting that article, Ophelia. Well done. Except you somehow missed the most important part:
LOL. OK, maybe that wasn’t the most important part, and maybe it was even a bit gratuitous…but still…
Ugh. More than a bit gratuitous, and sadistic in just the way Trump is sadistic, which is why I omitted it, and why I wish you could have grasped that and respected it. “But still” nothing.
Sorry. All joking aside, I agree that was a strange and unnecessary detail for the author to include.
To the main point, I hate to keep diagnosing people, but Giuliani does not seem to be the person he used to be. He undermines Trump and himself all the time, and I’m surprised Trump hasn’t fired him yet. I suppose I’m glad he revealed so much to this unsympathetic reporter, since it’s good for us to know, but what was he thinking? His decision-making skills seem to be gone.
It’s like a sort of infection, trumpinosis or something.
There’s something really wrong with Giuliani. Medically, I mean. I don’t know what it is, but he has become this deranged person, spewing word vomit and bugging out his eyes and slurring his speech. He often seems intoxicated. I’ve never liked him, never bought into the “America’s Mayor” crap. But he used to seem fairly rational, if rather unprincipled. He never used to behave the way he does now in public.
If he was someone I knew personally, I’d be advising his family to get him evaluated by a neurologist.