REX TILLERSON DID CORRECTLY CALL THE PRESIDENT AS HE SAW HIM

 RUDY GUILIANI: A MAN THAT BELIEVES IN HIS OWN MYTH

 

          …Rudy really embarrassed himself in a Pennsylvania Federal Courthouse

 

Many believe that with age, comes wisdom, but it didn’t with Rudy.

 

One wonders why a man that is supposed to have a higher than average I.Q. would purposely become directly involved with, and support a pathological liar.  Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City Mayor and prosecutor has become a leader of the “Trump Train”, and he has bought into leaving whatever massive damage he can to this nation’s reputation across the world.

As a reporter for the Washington Post recently wrote, “Rudy Giuliani was never America’s Mayor. That nickname was just a bit of media that was spread so thickly that Giuliani had no trouble in dining out on it for years. Many Americans also lapped it up as well.  But President Trump has been like a steady stream of acid on that veneer of being America’s Mayor. And now Giuliani has become a raw, smoldering mess.  The former New York mayor, now the personal attorney to President Trump, is a man that is forever hostage to his own hype.”

Giuliani returned to federal court as a practicing attorney.  This was for the first time in nearly three decades, and it would not be the worst of Giuliani’s carrying-water for President Trump.  However, it was, perhaps the saddest, and as expected, It was small and petty.  He was in the Pennsylvania Federal Court, but this time, it was not to tell a convoluted tale of international intrigue about shadowy figures and powerful people skulking around in the Ukraine.  This time his story of falsehoods was closer to home and it was just simply being mean.  Giuliani argued, of course without any evidence, that a vast amount of perfectly reasonable, good-hearted Americans masterminded a huge illegal scheme that had cheated Trump out of his re-election. As stated, Giuliani couldn’t offer any evidence that this awful plot actually existed, but nevertheless he was sure it did exist.  Oh, and it just happened to be focused in places like Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit, with large populations of Black and brown people.

Many of us like to believe that with age, comes wisdom.  The truth of it may be that age only makes people more of what they’ve always been.  Giuliani believes that being older frees us from needing to prove and define ourselves for a future that’s yet to unfold.  Giuliani, at 76, has revealed himself to be a man like Donald Trump who believes that he can summon truth from lies.  That he can bend the law to his own will, and that he can conjure up whatever reality he wants, simply by speaking his false hopes aloud.

In the federal court, Giuliani alleged “widespread nationwide voter fraud of which his tale is a part.”  Then he admitted, that, well, there wasn’t fraud in the legal sense, just in the hysterical, made-up Trumpian sense. Throughout the afternoon, Giuliani misspoke, mis-calling Joe Biden “Bush.”  He was then denigrated by the defense counsel.  He expressed dismay that Republican counties didn’t let voters fix mail-in ballots, but he turned his legal wrath on the Democratic counties that did.

Giuliani did not sound like an attorney delivering a logical argument. He was instead a carnival pitchman trying to make his case with examples full of disbelief and outrage. Unfortunately, the hearing was not as animated as it could have been because while there was audio from the courtroom, there was no video.

The one issue that was made clear by the hearing, was that Giuliani was never America’s Mayor.  Digesting that fact makes it much easier to contend with the ease with which Giuliani has just become one of Trump’s liars.

The patriotic label of America’s Mayor was bestowed on him, only by the media after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, during which Giuliani was the Mayor of New York City.  He was known for cracking down on quality-of-life crimes, such as calling those men that were panhandling to wash your car’s windshields, as a menaces to society.

He reality was that for months after 9/11, Giuliani did keep firm, reassuring and empathetic control of a city that was in an unimaginable crisis.  At the time, his sure hand helped to contain the circles of fear and uncertainty that were spreading across the country.  Giuliani was tested in ways that few mayors have ever been.  He has risen to the challenge, and for that he was rightfully admired.

But his being labeled America’s Mayor was more marketing than a fact. What the heck  did it even mean?  It really didn’t matter. The country at the time needed its heroes and villains. The country also needed clarity. The country was needy and Giuliani filled that need.

Unfortunately, the title stuck and eventually became more than a mere harmless overstatement.  It put Giuliani within the first draft of history as a patriotic hero.  It put him falsely in the company of those who run toward danger for the good and grace of others. 

The label unfortunately sold him as someone who rose up and carried an entire country on his back to safety, which was the opposite of what he has become.  The label eventually reduced Giuliani to a fake white knight draped in the American flag.

There was little room in that image for the rest of his story, which included extending his New York Mayoral term beyond its limits by delaying the inauguration of his successor.  He then ran a catastrophically 2008 campaign for president of the United States.

And now he’s going after all those American voters who didn’t vote for his guy, the pathological liar.

Giuliani has attached himself to Trump as a false vehicle for political power.  All this law-and-order, brute-force business was not foreign to Rudy.  The man who believed himself to be America’s Mayor also seemed to believe that wherever he went, he would be surrounded by the scent of patriotism and he would duly out-perform whatever he touched.

Unfortunately, he believed in the power of his myth.

But it is just a myth, as is Donald Trump’s lack of power to reverse the results of the November 3^rd election.

Copyright G. Ater 2020