Rudy Giuliani has weird freak-out after Rick Gates testifies at Paul Manafort trial

| 10:10 pm EDT August 6, 2018
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Donald Trump’s deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates testified today that Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort committed a whole series of felonies. Trump is on vacation right now, because of course he is. But you’d think Trump’s criminal defense attorney Rudy Giuliani would be paying attention right now, considering how profoundly today’s testimony impacts his client. Let’s just say that Rudy couldn’t quite get it together.

After Rick Gates testified that he and Manafort conspired in a long term crime spree, Donald Trump responded by rambling incoherently about how he could solve California wildfires by getting rid of rivers and trees, or something. But then Rudy Giuliani decided to try to top him in the absurdity department, by ranting about Fox News and cigarettes, and yelling “hate me” in the middle of it. No really, this happened.

Here’s the brain-cell-challenged tweet that Rudy posted: “There is a moron on Fox claiming I chain smoke cigarettes worrying about the President’s tweets. Don’t smoke cigarettes. Hate ‘me. Smoke only premium cigars and I hope this idiot is not a lawyer because if he is he should sue his Law School.” We suspect that he meant “Hate ’em” when he typed “Hate ‘me” and we really couldn’t care less what he does or doesn’t smoke. But this tweet gives away that Trump’s top lawyer is wasting the day watching Fox News and then ranting about the irrelevant things that are said about him.

Considering that Rudy Giuliani ends up further incriminating Donald Trump every time he speaks about the scandal, Trump may be better off with Rudy freaking out about cigarettes instead. But considering the timing, it’s nothing short of stunning (yet not at all surprising) that the top defense attorney for the “President” of the United States is focused on this nonsense on a day where his client’s top people are busy incriminating themselves and each other.