Has Anyone Seen Ghouliani Sober?

[AmazonGrace]

 

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[thoughtful]

6 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

I don't know much about Art, but I know what I like!  ?

[fraurosena]

16 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Mate. You’re the one wanting an authoritarian rule in America, so why are you complaining about East Germany?

[GreyhoundFan]

Rudes is out: "Giuliani no longer representing Trump 'in any legal matters,' adviser says"

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(CNN)Former President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is "not currently representing President Trump in any legal matters," senior Trump adviser Jason Miller told CNN on Tuesday.

The former New York City mayor was the face of Trump's failed bid to overturn the presidential election results, but his legal work with the former President dates back years.

Miller said in a tweet that Giuliani remained an "ally and a friend" and is not representing Trump only because there are no pending cases in which he's involved.

Trump had signaled frustration with Giuliani last month after he became the first president in US history to be impeached twice. He told his staff to stop paying Giuliani's legal fees, a person familiar with the matter previously told CNN, though aides were not clear if Trump was serious about his instructions.

Now out of office and without the protections that the presidency afforded him, Trump is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil state inquiries and defamation lawsuits by two women accusing him of sexual assault.

Georgia officials have announced that the former President faces two new investigations over calls he made to election officials in an attempt to overturn the state's election results.

And Trump faces a criminal investigation in New York, where the Manhattan district attorney's office is looking into whether the Trump Organization violated state laws, such as insurance fraud, tax fraud or other schemes to defraud.

The scope of the investigation is broad, with prosecutors looking into, among other things, whether the Trump Organization misled financial institutions when applying for loans or violated tax laws when donating a conservation easement on its estate called Seven Springs and taking deductions on fees paid to consultants.

The former President has also privately voiced concern about whether he could face charges as a result of the January 6 US Capitol riot he's been accused of inciting, according to multiple people.

"He's worried about it," one adviser close to Trump told CNN.

Though Giuliani is among Trump's fiercest public defenders, his work on behalf of the former President has prompted legal problems of his own.

Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday accusing Giuliani and Trump of conspiring with the far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the January 6 insurrection.

Giuliani, the lawsuit alleges, riled up the crowd as he told supporters: "Let's have trial by combat."

Additionally, Giuliani is facing lawsuits from two voting technology companies, Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, related to his months-long embrace of baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

 

[onekidanddone]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Rudes is out: "Giuliani no longer representing Trump 'in any legal matters,' adviser says"

 

There is a giant bus with Rudy’s name on it. 

[AmazonGrace]

I suppose if you and your lawyer get sued for criming together your lawyer would have a huge conflict of interest    

[47of74]

Now the question is if anyone has even seen Ghouliani. 

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Trailed by possible billion-dollar liabilities and a reported criminal investigation, ex-New York City mayor turned former President Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been accused of ducking service a $1.3 billion lawsuit filed against him late last month.

According to Dominion attorney Tom Clare, the company hired a process server—not uncommon in civil suits—after Giuliani declined to accept an emailed copy. But even that was apparently a bit of a hassle.

“After not responding to requests to waive service, Mr. Giuliani evaded in-person service of process for nearly a week,” Clare told Law&Crime. “It took numerous attempts, at both his home and office, before we were able to successfully serve Mr. Giuliani on February 10. Mr. Giuliani’s repeated false claims about Dominion have been immeasurably damaging; this service of process is one more step forward in our pursuit of justice.”

After that, the waiting-and-eluding game reportedly continued for three more days. Phone calls and emails were reportedly ignored. A red light was reportedly blown through by one of Giuliani’s drivers. The man formerly known as Hizzoner allegedly dodged and weaved and dodged some more.

Jesus Ghouliani is such a fucking coward. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy... "How a new government report strongly implicates Giuliani in a Russian interference effort"

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By early May 2019, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani must have looked like the international espionage equivalent of a wide-eyed tourist walking around with his wallet hanging out his back pocket. He’d announced his intention to travel to Ukraine to seek out derogatory information about Joe Biden, then a newly announced presidential candidate and someone well positioned to face President Donald Trump, then Giuliani’s boss, in the 2020 election. For any Russian officials interested in finding a conduit for misinformation that both cast their geopolitical rival Ukraine as corrupt and bolstered Trump’s chances of reelection, Giuliani must have been an irresistible target.

A report released by the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday strongly suggests that this is exactly what happened.

Giuliani spent months explicitly arguing that Biden’s son Hunter had engaged in dubious activity while serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. This claim was fact-checked over and over again, particularly as Trump faced impeachment for his efforts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation of the Bidens. At no point did credible evidence emerge to suggest that the core claims being rigorously promoted by Giuliani and Trump were accurate. Giuliani nonetheless continued to hammer on the allegations, repeatedly insisting that he had provided or would provide evidence to prove wrongdoing.

At one point, as the second impeachment investigation of Trump was underway, Giuliani returned to Ukraine with credulous employees of the pro-Trump network One America News in tow to interview those he claimed had evidence of Biden’s malfeasance. One of those sources was Andriy Derkach, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who had been a member of a Pro-Russia political party for which Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort once worked.

Derkach posted photos of his meetings with Giuliani on social media, reporting that the two had discussed an effort to address purported “corruption” in Ukraine. He also later appeared in that One America News series purporting to prove Biden’s culpability. The network promoted the series by showing a picture of Giuliani sitting down with Derkach.

Both Giuliani and OAN should have known that Derkach wasn’t a reliable source. At the time, The Washington Post reported on his ties to Russia and his lack of credibility. His official biography identifies links to the KGB, Russia’s former intelligence agency. But he continued to provide dubious information that was picked up by conservative media and promoted by Giuliani as the election unfolded.

In September, while Trump was still president, the Treasury Department sanctioned Derkach — an “active Russian agent” — for attempting to influence the 2020 presidential election. The DNI report released this week is focused on ways in which foreign countries, chief among them Russia, sought to reshape the election and articulates Derkach’s alleged role to that end.

“A key element of Moscow's strategy this election cycle was its use of people linked to Russian intelligence to launder influence narratives — including misleading or unsubstantiated allegations against President Biden — through US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report reads. This effort was directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, it continues, who “had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian legislator who played a prominent role in Russia's election influence activities.”

The main thrust of the interference, the report continues, was to imply wrongdoing by Biden, the administration of Barack Obama and Ukraine. It involved not only Derkach but Konstantin Kilimnik, a former Manafort employee who was charged by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III for his role in Russia’s 2016 interference efforts. (Trump pardoned Manafort shortly before Christmas.)

“Derkach, Kilimnik, and their associates sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences,” the report states. “These Russian proxies met with and provided materials to Trump administration-linked US persons to advocate for formal investigations; hired a US firm to petition US officials; and attempted to make contact with several senior US officials. They also made contact with established US media figures and helped produce a documentary that aired on a US television network in late January 2020.”

There’s no reading of that last paragraph that doesn’t obviously implicate Giuliani as an unwitting part of the effort.

The report is a declassified version of a longer, classified assessment of foreign interference efforts. As such, it’s necessarily vague, aiming not to reveal the sources and systems used for its assessment. This also reinforces that it should be treated for what it is: a necessarily geopolitical document that is part of a broader international tug-of-war.

There’s no suggestion from the report that Giuliani or other Americans were wittingly aiding a Russian interference effort. Instead, the report contributes to a sense that Giuliani’s eagerness to aid Trump’s reelection effort blinded him to the sketchiness of his sources. The Justice Department was eventually tasked with running down the leads Giuliani provided, but Trump’s attorney himself seemed uninterested in doing so.

What also isn’t clear from the report is one of 2020′s biggest mysteries: whether Giuliani’s sudden discovery last year of a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden is thought to have been part of the Russian effort. Because of the unusual provenance of the device and the inability of outlets to assess its authenticity, stories about the laptop were blocked on social media platforms during last year’s presidential election out of concern that it, too, was a function of Russian interference efforts. (Giuliani says he was contacted by the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop who gave him the device. He declined to make it available to most media outlets, telling the New York Times at one point that he originally shared it with the New York Post out of concern that other outlets would “spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out,” a process generally known as “vetting.”)

Later reports, including from Time, indicated that some of the material attributed to Biden’s laptop was circulating in Ukraine before Giuliani visited in late 2019. If true, that suggests the possibility that the material was hacked from an Internet-accessible source such as an Apple iCloud account.

There’s an obvious murkiness about all of this, including the identities of others who had roles in the interference effort articulated in the DNI report. It’s also not clear how involved Kilimnik was in the push. But the report makes one obvious point without ever using Giuliani’s name: Trump’s personal attorney was allegedly a conduit for an effort by Russia to affect the results of the 2020 presidential election to Trump’s benefit.

When Giuliani returned to the United States from his trip to Ukraine in late 2019 after meeting with Derkach and others, he called Trump. The president asked his attorney what he’d found, prompting Giuliani to reportedly answer, “More than you can imagine.”

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Great description of Rudes:

 

[AmazonGrace]

Rudy wrote a thing.

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Remember how Rudes had those rivers of black crap streaming down his face during one of his dumb press conferences? I bet the dark stuff is now flowing down his pants legs. I hope he ends up in an orange jumpsuit.

[47of74]

46 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

 

Yeah I saw that too.  I hope both he, fuck knob, and a whole shitload of Republicans are sweating bullets right about now.  Especially fuck knob since Mr. Hands Down His Pants is just the type to roll over on him.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

Hurry, before they lose their law licenses!

[fraurosena]

This is the start of a really good thread with links to all kinds of articles. It lays out why this Giuliani raid could potentially see a lot of people connected to the Ukraine scandal come tumbling down.

Some names of those who are probably feeling somewhat apprehensive right now:

• Giuliani (of course)
• Devin Nunes
• Mike Pompeo
• John Solomon
• Lev Parnas
• Igor Fruman
• Victoria Toensing (also raided today)
• Steve Bannon
• Bill Barr

 

 

[47of74]

More updates....

 

[WiseGirl]

Note what Ted says a judge found probable cause...oh may this bring the house of cards down on so many.FBI at Victoria Toensing's house.

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Seth's book is coming to life....

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Edited April 28, 2021 by WiseGirl
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[47of74]

Yeah good question.  

Course I don't know if the new version would be quite his style.

[47of74]

And of course Rudy's kid is freaking tonight

 

Edited April 28, 2021 by 47of74

[onekidanddone]

24 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

And of course Rudy's kid is freaking tonight

 

So what is it with you these Trumpers men and greasy hair?

Petty I know, however it bugs me. As does the FoxSpews women with the Barbie hair 

[fraurosena]

Rudy is in so much trouble. How long will he last in an interrogation, before he starts spilling the beans?

 

[formergothardite]

Rudy will talk. I have no doubt about it. He isn't exactly bright but he will try to save himself.