Giuliani Time: Trump Taps Rudy To Lead Legal Challenges That Are Going Nowhere

Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani, speaks at a news conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia. - Joe Biden has won the US presidency over Donald Trump, TV netw... Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani, speaks at a news conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia. - Joe Biden has won the US presidency over Donald Trump, TV networks projected on November 7, 2020. CNN, NBC News and CBS News called the race in his favor, after projecting he had won the decisive state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP) (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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One-term President Donald Trump has tapped his loyal bag man and personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to lead his campaign’s long-shot legal challenges to the election results, the New York Times reported Friday evening.

The Times said Giuliani was brought in as the face of the increasingly desperate effort to overrule the will of the American people, who delivered a decisive win for President-elect Joe Biden in both the Electoral College and popular vote, after the campaign’s efforts in Arizona fizzled.

Politico confirmed the Times’ reporting. Giuliani led the infamous weekend press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, which Trump apparently mistook for the luxury hotel in downtown Philly. As the networks projected Biden the winner of the presidency late Saturday morning, Giuliani ranted at reporters from the landscaping company’s drab headquarters, which are sandwiched between an adult bookstore and a crematorium.

Politico reported that the Four Seasons stunt scared away lawyers who no longer wanted to be associated with the campaign’s efforts.

Giuliani has dutifully pursued the President’s most dubious schemes, from trying and failing to dig up dirt on the Bidens in Ukraine to peddling bogus conspiracies involving Hunter Biden’s laptop.

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  1. How long before we get a election-challenge/Borat convergence?

  2. Avatar for bdtex bdtex says:

    Saw that report on another site last night and it cracked me up. I would guess that more lawyers will be bailing from the lawsuits now.

  3. The “Four Seasons Landscaping Screw the Putsch” is now complete.

  4. I guess this is proof Giuliani isn’t really a vampire as some have suggested. He seems to be clinging desperately to his last moments in the sun. I imagine irrelevance is the worst fate for guys like this.

  5. Judge: “Counselor, what the hell are you doing?”
    Rudy: “I’m sorry, Your Honor. I was just tucking in my shirt.”

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