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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'America's Mayor' Rudy Giuliani Is Just Donald Trump's Stooge Now
https://www.thedailybeast.com/americas-mayor-rudy-giuliani-is-just-donald-trumps-stooge-now?ref=homeAmericas Mayor Rudy Giuliani Is Just Donald Trumps Stooge Now
The lawman gone bad isnt making a legal case. Hes trying to get the mob to destroy the law on behalf of his client.
Michael Tomasky
08.14.18 5:09 AM ET
So now we have the former lawman Rudy Giuliani arguing daily to the American people that their countrys laws and legal processes are illegitimate.
Collusion, he now says, is not a crime. President Trump never told James Comey to go easy on Michael Flynn, he avers, contradicting Comey, witnesses who confirm that Trump told everybody but Comey to leave the room on the fateful nightand not least of all, himself. Robert Mueller cant possibly have anything on Trump. On Fox, Giuliani actually spoke the sentence: The presidents an honest man.
We know what all this is about. He understands that his client, as the president of the United States, cant face indictment and trial in the normal way any other American citizen can. The legal system cant catch up with him, at least while hes president. Only the political system can. Congressional action is the only remedy for a lawless president. And Congress obeys (in theory) the will of the people. Get the people to hate the law, to believe that the law itself is lawless, and the peoples representatives will be cowed into inaction.
So thats what Giuliani is up to: He, a former federal prosecutor, is trying to get the mob to destroy the law.
And now, as of Monday morning, hes gone a step further. On Twitter he called on Jeff Sessions to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the special prosecutor, and he even offered up two names: former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former FBI director Louis Freeh.
The drumbeat will now start. Giuliani will go on Fox (probably has already) to promote these ideas, and the right-wing media will follow suit along with congressmen like Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes.
Its an unspeakably outrageous idea, by the way. You can object to the fact that Mueller was appointed. You can support his firing, if you like. But the idea that we can go around appointing investigators to investigate investigators is extremely dangerous. Its an attempt to extinguish long-standing legal process and practices in this country. A negation of law.
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If Giuliani had gracefully left public life after 2001, hed have secured an overall positive place in the history books (we can debate how fully deserved that would have been, but it would have been the case). Now? Everything before, bad and good, is erased. He will join Trump in the history books, and nothing else matters. He has destroyed himself. Lets hope thats all he destroys.
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'America's Mayor' Rudy Giuliani Is Just Donald Trump's Stooge Now (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2018
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(16,423 posts)1. How dare you suggest that Mr. "Noun, verb and 9/11" has become a laughingstock.