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Zorro

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Thu Sep 26, 2019, 07:51 AM Sep 2019

Rudy Giuliani -- World's Worst Best Friend

Rudy Giuliani is the Trump administration’s point man on Ukraine. Just remember that, and everything else will make a lot more sense. “I think it’s incredible the way he’s done,” the president of the United States said Wednesday about his personal lawyer, who specializes in going on television and babbling incoherently.

We don’t know precisely what Giuliani’s diplomatic role is, given the fact that he’s not a government employee. His job seems mainly to be finding some proof that when Joe Biden was vice president, he was up to some shady Ukraine business in order to help out his son, Hunter.

Rudy certainly has Donald Trump’s ear — and more clout than the beleaguered State Department. “Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man,” Trump told the president of Ukraine. “He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you.”

As mayor, Giuliani’s was most famous for his 9/11 performance, which was more impressive if you ignored the fact that he’d located the city’s emergency command at the World Trade Center, despite police warnings that the towers had previously been bombed by terrorists. In a way, he’s playing a similar role now — he’s assigned to deal with a crisis he’s helped create. How often did you worry about Ukraine before Rudy picked up the case?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/giuliani-trump-ukraine.html

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Rudy Giuliani -- World's Worst Best Friend (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2019 OP
2nd worst: Look at what Turd did to him in his handwritten "notes" of the Ukraine call. lagomorph777 Sep 2019 #1
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