Rudy Giuliani is back – and he’s making a bigger mess than ever
For a bit of time, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for “President” Donald J. Trump, disappeared. Nobody missed him while he perhaps was scrambling around to find some money to pay for his own legal bills. After the midterm elections, in what would be considered an Onion-esque headline if not for the fact it was in Newsweek, we read, “Rudy Giuliani: Obama should be ‘more presidential’ like Donald Trump, midterm results proof.”
Rudy Giuliani tweeted: “The DeSantis/Scott team won critical races in Florida. Also there was no place President Trump campaigned harder and it paid off. The big loser former President Obama looks like defeats wherever he worked hard. Maybe now he will follow 43’s more presidential approach.”
Giuliani is either referring to George W. Bush, who was the 43rd president, or to his own boss, Donald Trump. In any case, 45 shortly after engaged in his normal unpresidential style, throwing all kinds of Republicans under the bus, ridiculing them for not being MAGAts, etc. Then the “President” went off to Paris and holed up in his hotel, skipping solemn remembrances, avoiding the crowd, wasting taxpayer dollars. He attacked California for somehow not doing a better job of containing wild fires, with the emphasis on wild. On Veteran’s Day, the “President” skipped Arlington and the solemn ceremony there because of rain.
So Rudy Giuliani can talk all he wants about President Obama needing to be more presidential, but unfortunately, nothing Trump does goes without putting a further blight on the office of the President which he currently occupies. There is nothing presidential in ignoring our military, both active and veterans alike, or attacking victims of natural disasters. We will not miss Giuliani if he goes back to whatever it is he does when he is not spewing nonsense.
Daniel is a lawyer writing and teaching about SCOTUS, and is the author of the book “The Chief Justices” about the SCOTUS as seen through the center seat.