Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
11.30.2019
Rudy, Rudy…Rudy
There
is not much to like about Rudy Giuliani, even when he was ostensibly a “good-guy,”
during his time heading up the U.S Attorney’s Office at the Southern District
of New York, or his time as Mayor of New York City, he was a blow hard.
Now
look at him…he is worse than ridiculous.
There
is something going with Rudy that makes him more detestable than the ordinary Trump
sycophant…because he is not the ordinary sycophant. He is a former U.S. Attorney.
He knows the law, and his shameful disregard of it is despicable.
His
desire to be near the center of power, cavorting with the Russian mob, courting
them, seeking money from them all while acting as the so called personal attorney
of the President of the United States, it is beyond outrageous.
So
what happened to Rudy? Where did he go wrong?
The
most uncomplicated analysis suggests that he, like Donald Trump is undergoing a
process of mental decline. This would speak to his poor representation of
himself and his client, his inability to articulate a coherent defense for
their activities, both on the campaign trail and abroad, but it does not
explain the corruption and the depravity.
Trump’s
corruption is understandable, he has always been corrupt, he was raised in it.
Rudy
was once a crime-fighter….wasn’t he?
He
prosecuted people and put them in jail, he took on the organized crime
syndicates of his day,
Did
he do those things without corruption?
The
most banal analysis suggests that Giuliani’s current lifestyle of pandering and
graft is all about keeping him in a lifestyle that he has become accustomed to.
That analysis also suggests that he was incapable of making an honest living.
If
that is true, it begs the question; was Rudy corrupt the whole time?
He
was always a creature of politics, it came out most clearly in his time as
Mayor, he bent the rules, he started the dreaded program of Stop and Frisk, he
dared people to challenge him in his efforts to “clean up the city,” a lot of
people suffered under his regime, innocent people were arrested, beaten,
prosecuted, jailed, at rates higher than normal, and Rudy knew it, but he did
not care. He justified it in the utilitarian mode, suggesting that the end
justified the means,
When
he was still an active politician he thought that the trajectory he had
established himself would put him in the United States Senate, and failing that
he thought it might put him in the White House. He failed at that too.
Now,
having gone to work for Donald Trump, it is clear that the end he sought was
never the greatest good for the greatest number, but rather the greatest good
for himself. He has proved that even the law does not matter to him, and he is
happy to conspire with the Mafia, to keep him near the center of power.
He
is a criminal, and it is likely that he always was.
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