Rudy Giuliani added to Trump legal team - A desperate move?

[Underseer]

Giuliani is there to drum up members of the base who may become dispirited, but who can become cajoled into rabidity by any nonsensical mention of 9/11. As in, "This is like what happened on 9/11!" Or some other silliness that is irrelevant to this case.

It probably is as simple as that. I'm amazed that the tactic is still effective, but it is. The most recent example of it being used that I can recall was Geraldo Rivera using it whilst being interviewed by Bill Maher. Fast forward to 3:18
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfmZVZzyL_U[/youtube]

Expect to see a return of this level of discourse. 9/11; the GOPs adaptation of "four legs bad, two legs good".

Yeah, I saw that interview. It was amazing to see Geraldo caught so out of sorts by such basic questions. It was obvious that Maher expected Geraldo to provide some kind reasonable answers to his questions, but instead, the guy just kind of stammered and stuttered throughout the interview.

I'd never seen Geraldo so at a loss for words or so out of sorts.

I don't know if "disturbing" is the right word, but he behaved like a cult member who hadn't been off the compound in years.

It only works on Republicans and other rightists.

Since Bush turned 9/11 into a cheap political football used to rationalize things that should not be rationalized, it lost its power over everyone else a long time ago. Anytime someone mentions 9/11 to me, I either immediately think of the cheap theatrics of conservatives or those ridiculous conspiracy theories from other liberals that always results in me yelling and bursting a vein.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Revisited this 2018 post. This is where ol' Rudy took the high dive and really got deep into the murk of Magaworld. This week, he's in free fall and railing like King Lear while his mentor, the orange guy, is the toast of the planet and about to waddle into the OO.
Total hubris, although it's apparently hubris without any learning, because Rudy seems to be just as belligerent as ever.
I know he's divesting himself of lots of property, but he's such a sociopath (denying over and over that he told destructive lies about those women) that I feel zero sympathy for him. Let him live with his son, who is afflicted with the same zealotry for Trump.

 

[Copernicus]

Giuliani and Trump actually became BFFs in the 1990s, when he was mayor of New York. Until then, Trump had been a Democrat, and his father had been tight with Democrats over zoning issues, etc. They were big pay-to-play funders. When Giuliani took over, Trump became a Republican. He was a political chameleon when it came to business. Trump's very public lovefest with Giuliani was one of the reasons that E. Jean Carroll never went to the police. She did not expect any criminal complaint against Trump to go anywhere.

 

[ZiprHead]

Charity. Nothing more. Giulliani is too old and drunk to be an effective lawyer.

 

[The Colourful Jester]

Perhaps the Dems could take pity on him and hire him to investigate any voter fraud for them.