Rudy blows it again

| 2:01 pm EDT May 13, 2018
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Rudy Giuliani recently declared that he’s offended by all those who have questioned if he’s become, well, how can we say it? Mentally incapacitated. Of course that’s what tends to happen when a guy who used to have a functioning brain has devolved into a screaming meemie who keeps going on television and confessing to his client’s crimes. The odd part is that after Rudy made clear how offended he was by the accusations, he went right back out and managed to act in even more inept fashion.

Donald Trump’s entire defense in the AT&T bribery scandal, if you could even call it a defense, is that he supposedly wasn’t involved in the regulatory decision about whether to approve or reject the AT&T – Time Warner merger. After all, if you’re not the one making the decision, why would anyone bribe you? This falls apart when you consider that the president can easily tell his regulators what he wants them to do, and then order them to pretend he wasn’t involved. But Rudy found a way to make it worse.

Giuliani, who has been giving so many interviews we can barely keep up, admitted to Huffington Post that Trump did in fact make the government’s decision to fight against the merger. Then Rudy went on CNN a short time later and tried to retract this admission, probably because someone pointed out that he’d just destroyed the one faint whiff of a defense that Trump had on the matter.

The last time Rudy Giuliani blew it like this, Donald Trump let it leak to the media that he was preparing to fire Rudy if it didn’t stop. Sure enough, Rudy has blown it again, in nearly the exact same way he blew it in the Stormy Daniels scandal. Are we about to see him head out the door? At this point we’re not convinced he can even find the door.