Rudy Giuliani just took it on the chin
We’ve all seen Rudy Giuliani make public appearances over the past year or two in which he was incoherent to the point of coming off as senile, or drunk, or perhaps both. Now we’re getting confirmation from within Trump world that Rudy was in fact drunk during one of the most crucial moments in the Trump election overthrow plot.
Longtime Trump adviser Jason Miller has testified to the January 6th Committee that when Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he ignored the advice of the experts around him and instead took the advice from Rudy Giuliani, who was clearly drunk at the time.
This is a bad look for Trump. It means that after he learned he’d legitimately lost the election, he launched a criminal plot to overthrow the election based on the incoherent ramblings of a guy who was clearly intoxicated. It’s also a bad look for Giuliani, who turns out to be every bit as much of a punchline in all this as we’ve all long suspected.
That said, Rudy’s drunkenness is not going to get him or Trump off the legal hook. If anything it paints Trump as being even guiltier, because he won’t be able to argue in court that he reasonably believed he’d won the election based solely on a drunk guy’s ramblings.
And while Rudy was drunk during at least a portion of the criminal conspiracy to overthrow the election, he didn’t do anything to correct his actions once he sobered up. So it’s not as if he’s going to be able to argue at trial that he was simply too incoherently drunk to realize that he was pushing ideas on Trump that were criminal in nature.
