Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday offered a justification after he was found liable for defaming two former Georgia election workers, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.

On his Sunday WABC radio program, Giuliani congratulated himself for a “brilliant legal move” because he recommended that then-President Donald Trump take his rigged election claims to state legislatures instead of the courts after the 2020 presidential vote.

“I went to Georgia, indicted, I went to Michigan, I went to Pennsylvania, I went to Arizona, and I went there, and I testified, and I brought my witnesses, and I said, among other things, if we lose, we’ll have a historical record, yet we’re going to prove this one day, Mr. President,” he recalled telling Trump. “I don’t even realize they’re going to try to put us in prison, arrest us, raid our apartments.”

  • Uglyhead
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    829 months ago

    we were on the verge of electing a 30-year career criminal as the President of the United States, and if you do that, you’re going to rot from the head down.

    More projection. A 30-year career criminal is exactly what Trump is; as evidence has shown and proved.

    • TechyDad
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      Now, now, now. Trump is way more than a 30 year career criminal!

      • FuglyDuck
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        149 months ago

        You need to elect the most experienced criminal, right?

        • @Pips
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          You start maxing out at 47 years.

    • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      Sounds like he has zero remorse and is basically saying “My only crime is that I tried to stop an election stealing criminal”.

      The judge should double the ruling.

      • If these people don’t keep doubling down, the maga base turns on them and they are completely screwed. They rely on the money from grifting those idiots and are no longer even remotely accepted by the adults in the room.

      • @macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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        He doesn’t have enough money to cover the initial ruling. The courts need to more aggressively retrieve the money because it already may as well be a trillion dollars he owes.

      • ares35
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        dude’s been stealing oxygen from more worthy beings since day one.

  • @AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
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    “Did it for my country” is the new talking point. Trump used it yesterday.

    This is the rationalization when the narcissist is proven to have lied. “I was being selfless, making that sacrifice”

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      That didn’t happen.

      And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

      And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

      And if it is, that’s not my fault.

      And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

      And if I did, you deserved it.

      So that’s line four of the prayer? Moving along pretty well!

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      It’s because they’re the best option for the country. Therefore everything they do is justified.

  • Jessica
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    449 months ago

    From the article:

    “I did it all for my country because I knew something my fellow countrymen didn’t know, and that is that we were on the verge of electing a 30-year career criminal as the President of the United States, and if you do that, you’re going to rot from the head down.”

    What a fucking idiot.

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        Fake News. I’ve gotta admit, Fake News was brilliant strategy, if sowing seeds of doubt into the election process was the goal.

        That is all they need. There could be multi-angle cameras that record their hate speech, and all they have to do to answer to it is say Fake News.

        Fake News! I never said that they should “fire up the ovens”. And if I did, it was not referring to any one specific group of people. And if I actually was referring to specific groups of people, I was just saying what you all think. And if you don’t think that, then you are probably an agent of either the FBI or IRS/ANTIFA.

        Edit to fix punctuation.

  • @spider@lemmy.nz
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    People like Giuliani, Trump, Netanyahu, etc. habitually conflate their own self-interest with the interest of their country.

  • DarkGamer
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    209 months ago

    That poor poor victim, you see he had to overthrow democracy and frame innocent people because he didn’t like the next president.

  • Melllvar
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    199 months ago

    Not even his supporters are going to remember him as anything but a penis butler for Trump.

  • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    “I am a proven traitor to America and attempted to oppress the will of its people because I am an American patriot and I love my country!”

    This is the type of dumbassery that all the backwoods Cletus’es eat up. Guaranteed to earn his master a few extra votes.

  • @unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    you did it for yourself and your friends you fucking crook, and nobody but the left half of the bell curve thinks otherwise for even one second.

    • ares35
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      59 months ago

      can we let a future cell mate have a crack at it first?