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Demovictory9

(32,421 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 12:47 PM Sep 2019

'I wish he would shut the heck up': Republicans sour on Giuliani

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/27/republicans-giuliani-congress-trump-1517400

CONGRESS

‘I wish he would shut the heck up’: Republicans sour on Giuliani
Even some of president's closest Hill allies say Giuliani isn't helping the president.

Republicans had enough headaches to deal with this week. Then Hurricane Rudy blew into town.

As the GOP scrambles to contain the fallout from President Donald Trump’s Ukraine controversy, Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has inserted himself directly into the center of a crisis that has engulfed the White House and brought impeachment closer to Trump’s doorstep. And Republicans want him to stop.


"I have great respect for Mr. Giuliani, but I said this yesterday and take it for what it's worth: He's wild as a March hare,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). “He's like a lot of senators, he's kind of a free range chicken, he kind of gets out there. What he says is his business, I don't speak for him."

Others put it more bluntly.

“I think it would be a good thing if he would go take a vacation,” a senior GOP lawmaker told POLITICO, one of several who declined to go on the record so they could speak critically of Giuliani.

Even some of Trump’s top allies on Capitol Hill don’t think Giuliani is doing the president or the party any favors by being such a constant presence in the media.

“Rudy’s saying a lot of things and I’m not sure he’s helping the president by being on TV every 15 minutes,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters this week.

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'I wish he would shut the heck up': Republicans sour on Giuliani (Original Post) Demovictory9 Sep 2019 OP
Keep it up, Rudy! orangecrush Sep 2019 #1
Not too long ago.. Left-face Sep 2019 #10
His anemic presidential campaign showed how Republicans felt about him years ago. PoliticAverse Sep 2019 #2
He should be on TV more often. dalton99a Sep 2019 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Sep 2019 #4
I relish his blathering! Newest Reality Sep 2019 #5
I heard a former True Blue American Sep 2019 #9
Funny, they don't wish that he'd stop committing crimes C_U_L8R Sep 2019 #6
He provides enough comedy gold to last hundreds of years. Doodley Sep 2019 #7
Giuliani is just trying to save his own ass now. MineralMan Sep 2019 #8
I ran across this comment looking for news this morning, RW world comment on cuckoo site ffr Sep 2019 #11
have NEVER understood what ANYBODY saw .. stopdiggin Sep 2019 #12

Left-face

(59 posts)
10. Not too long ago..
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:25 PM
Sep 2019

I was sitting on the throne preparing to do my sworn duty and about to urinate when a large cockroach scrambled across my bare foot. Yes, quite alarming and disgusting and I was unable to continue for a while , but then I realized that it was far more preferrable than listening to even one word coming from either Giuliani or Trump.
You know it's bad when cockroaches interrupting your urine stream are preferrable to hearing a president or his fake attorney speak..

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
5. I relish his blathering!
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:01 PM
Sep 2019

You couldn't ask for a better witness, stooge, informant, etc.

Keep on blabbing Rudy! Please!

C_U_L8R

(44,988 posts)
6. Funny, they don't wish that he'd stop committing crimes
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:09 PM
Sep 2019

or that he'd come clean and truthfully testify before congress and the world.

Republicans just wish he'd shut up.

They completely fail at patriotism 101.

MineralMan

(146,255 posts)
8. Giuliani is just trying to save his own ass now.
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:14 PM
Sep 2019

Everyone's just trying to save their own asses now.

"Things fall apart;
The center cannot hold..."

The disaster is spreading. Every man for himself, more or less...

ffr

(22,665 posts)
11. I ran across this comment looking for news this morning, RW world comment on cuckoo site
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:33 PM
Sep 2019

Actually breathing some reason into what is otherwise just one cuckoo crackpot comment after another (tRump's got a plan and the liberals are blah, blah, blah)

This story would not be used in a spy story because it is beyond belief. Not credible.

We are reaching bigfoot meets space alien territory.


stopdiggin

(11,242 posts)
12. have NEVER understood what ANYBODY saw ..
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:46 PM
Sep 2019

sure, his gibberish and ranting is more extreme (and comical) now than it was at one point. But has there EVER been a time, since he joined the Trump team, when Rudy was regarded as anything more than a clownish character in a third rate vaudeville show? Any real knowledge? Any real contributions? Any real status or influence?

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