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'It was all made up!' Maddow reveals Rudy Giuliani testimony about origins of Trump's big election lie.
Rachel Maddow on Tuesday examined the origins of former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" of election fraud, which she described as the "current animating force" in the Republican Party.
"I mentioned a few days ago that a Colorado lawsuit was about to become a font of information about where all this stuff came from, about how these lies and conspiracy theories about the election got invented, how they came up with this stuff, how they started propagating it." "I may be wrong, and I'll correct myself if I am, but so far this has not been previously reported on TV."
Maddow noted a deposition of Rudy Giuliani, where he was "under oath explaining the due diligence he did as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, when he decided he needed to go public with these claims that the election was stolen."
Maddow explained Giuliani was asked, "As I'm hearing your testimony, in terms of eyes-on information about your claims about Dominion Voting Systems, we've got some media reports that you generally described, and then you looked at some Facebook postings that you described?"
"I don't remember if it was Facebook," Giulian replied. "Those social media posts get all one to me- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter."
"Anything else you laid eyes on?" Giuliani was asked.
"Right now, I can't recall anything else that I laid eyes on," he replied.
At another point in the deposition, Giuliani revealed that he had no evidence to back up his claim that a witness was credible. He went on to deny he was holding a trial by press conference, arguing it was actually just an investigation by press conference.
Giuliani, a former associate attorney general of the United States, argued he would be a "terrible lawyer" if he verified unfounded claims before repeating them.
"Again, this deposition from Rudy Giuliani, filed in a defamation cates, but that story he admits was just concocted is what ultimately led to the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6," Maddow noted. "It's all made up."
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zoom to 3.15 mins--- to 'hear' Rudie's own words deposition.
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Rudy Giuliani lying about Assault after footage leaks! Holytshit!! .. Now what?? Who gets criminally charged? The guy or Rudy accusing him? __best damn incriminating video of the year!!!!!!
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Subject: Re: Rudy Giuliani _--- Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:19 am
6-29-2022
(((video of back pat above))))
NYC Mayor Adams doubles down on push to probe Rudy Giuliani for falsely reporting a crime.
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams stepped up his assertion that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani falsely reported a crime, likening Giuliani’s recent assault allegations to the notorious “Central Park Karen” saga in which a white woman accused a black man of threatening her and was later charged with filing a false police report.
“Just as we’ve done in other cases (like) where the Karen incident happened in Central Park and other incidents, I believe the DA should look at that when determining what the final outcomes is,” Adams said Wednesday.
A day earlier, Adams suggested that Giuliani falsely reported a crime when he accused Staten Island supermarket worker Daniel Gill of hitting him with the intent of knocking him down. Video of the incident depicts Gill patting the former mayor on the back at the ShopRite he worked at while Giuliani was there campaigning for his son, Andrew, who ultimately lost in his bid to run for governor in November’s general election.
Giuliani has claimed that Gill “hit me to knock me down” and said it felt like a bullet or as “if a boulder hit me.” He also called Adams “an idiot” Tuesday because “I didn’t file a report.”
“Can you imagine that?” Giuliani said. “He wants to prosecute me for a false police report that I didn’t file. His Police Department filed the report. They did the investigation.”
On Wednesday, Adams said Giuliani did, in fact, speak to the NYPD about the incident, a detail which NYPD sources corroborated.
Adams’ mention of the “Karen incident” was a reference to the May 2020 faceoff in which Amy Cooper called the police on Christian Cooper after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park. When Christian, who is unrelated, summoned the pooch, Amy Cooper called the police and said “an African-American man ... is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.”
The term “Karen” is slang for an entitled white woman.
Adams tried to make the case Wednesday that what Giuliani did fell into a similar category.
“The former mayor made several serious allegations. He was videoed saying things that happened. Those things did not happen,” Adams said at an unrelated press conference in lower Manhattan. “Because of his report to the Police Department, a person went to jail for 24 hours.”
The possibility of Giuliani being charged with falsely reporting a crime isn’t the only legal issue he’s now facing.
Adams did not comment on Giuliani’s current D.C. woes, but he suggested on Wednesday that Gill’s jailing was, at least in part, personal for him.
“I don’t know if people know what it’s like being in jail when you did not commit a crime,” said Adams, who was briefly incarcerated as a teenager. “You never get over that. This person’s life has been changed because of what all of us saw. The pat on the back was not a punch to the head, was not knocking someone to the ground.”
The guy is old..that shit musta hurt! ...lol ..Guliani is his own worst enemy....ha ....clown .. The pics of his hair dye running down his face was a knee-slapper .. The guy needs to STFU if he wants to maintain any morsel of credibility he once had with NYorkers.
'Desperate and alone' Giuliani facing the 'abyss' after tying himself to Trump.
In a column for the New York Times, Rudy Giuliani's biographer said the man once known as "America's Mayor" has become a shell of his old self as he faces a rash of criminal investigations and lawsuits for his efforts to protect and defend Donald Trump -- who also faces a myriad of legal problems of his own.
On the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack -- a day that Giuliani recently called "... the worst day of my life and in some ways, you know, the greatest day of my life," -- biographer Andrew Kirtzman, who wrote Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor,” claims that the former mayor is facing the "abyss" with his reputation in tatters.
According to Kirtzman, Giuliani's need for massive amounts of money and his desire to remain relevant which led him to work for Trump has been the key to his downfall.
Writing that he is trying to "reconcile" the "brilliant leader" from 9/11 with "the confused, widely ridiculed figure facing potential indictment for trying to subvert the 2020 election," Kitzman added, "Mr. Giuliani is virtually alone at this desperate hour.
Supporters have abandoned him; once-friendly news organizations have banished him from their airwaves; and few have helped him fend off bankruptcy from numerous lawsuits and investigations. At 78 years old, the man who helped to lead New York City and the nation out of some of our most horrible days is a shadow of his old self."
"Mr. Giuliani finds himself in this situation not in spite of his actions on Sept. 11 but rather because of them. The choices he made to leverage his fame from that period — and his efforts to hold on to it when it started to slip away — have led to his troubles today," he wrote before adding that Giuliani's failed 2008 bid to run for president started his precipitous slide into his current troubles.
"In the years that followed he seemed increasingly desperate to salvage both the financial benefits and political power that came with being 'America’s Mayor,' accumulating a roster of shady foreign clients for his company and endorsing Donald Trump — whom he considered a 'carnival barker' at the time.
According to an aide — for president in 2016," the biographer wrote. "His reliance on Mr. Trump was a driving force behind his serial disasters supposedly in support of the administration: his bizarre efforts to frame Joe Biden in the Ukraine scandal, which resulted in the president’s first impeachment, and his catastrophic efforts to tamper with the 2020 presidential election, which could land him in jail."
According to Kirtzman, Giuliani's future looks grim -- and he has only himself to blame.
"The man of law and order, famed for his rectitude as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York in the 1980s, is a subject of investigations in Georgia and Washington, D.C. Both center on deeply cynical actions to upend the 2020 election results," he wrote. "They reveal a corruption of character, triggered by a succession of moral compromises over the years undertaken to maintain the power and money that he’d grown accustomed to after Sept. 11."
"History will pay Rudy Giuliani his due for leading New York through its darkest hour. But it will also record that his exploitation of his actions on Sept. 11 led him to the abyss," he concluded.
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