In about fifty years political science instructors will have a pop quiz question that will read’ what is the most memorable quote from the Trump presidential fiasco, the answer “if it’s what you say, I love it, especially late in the summer.” That e-mailed response by Don Jr. was in reply to a foray into campaign tampering by Rob Goldstone. As is par for the course, Goldstone is a big bundle of exuberant self-aggrandizing, self-promotion. Just the kind of guy suited for the Trumps, a brash, self-deluding narcissist, who fancies himself as P.T. Barnum; part huckster, part publicist and full-time entertainment pusher. I know it sounds as if he is Trump's doppelganger, but his place in history may be cemented as the man who began a series of events that brought down a president.
Enter Rudy Giuliani the latest aerialist in the Trump circus. After 22 months of investigation, confirmation of 140 contacts between Trump campaign minions and the Russians, 34 indictments that include six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, one California man, and one London-based lawyer. Seven of these people (including five of the six former Trump advisers) have pleaded guilty, according to a Vox article dated March 22, 2019.
Despite the long and arduous election meddling ride over the rough seas from Russia to the United States, the Trump administration had planned to dispatch Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to listen to a few jokes from the new Ukrainian President and ask for dirt on Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden. Donald Sr. loves Kim, Donald Jr. loves it, “especially in the late summer,” and now Rudy loves Ukraine.
Yes, Giuliani is back, nipping at our heels with his incessant giggle, biting at the truth and generally gnawing at the nerves of the world. Giuliani was sent out to do what he does best toss the balls in the air while the President distracts, detracts and acts like the ineffectual clod he has proven to be over and over. Rudy spent the weekend juggling his version of the truth. I never believed Mr. Giuliani had any plans to go to a foreign government, again, to interfere once more in an American election. After many hours of tossing and catching his juggling pins with statement’s like this is ‘not election meddling’ just a personal offer to help the Ukrainians investigate an American politician; Rudy is just that kind of guy.
After the media chased the ball again and the game of hiding the Trump tax ball was exposed, Giuliani effectively said, just kidding, “I’ve decided … I’m not going to go to the Ukraine,” Giuliani told Fox News Friday night. “I’m not going to go because I think I’m walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president … in some cases enemies of the United States, and in one case an already convicted person who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 election.”
Of course, Rudy ran into the Big Top of Fox News to claim a grand conspiracy to either trap him or the President with a plan he [Giuliani] proposed himself. The elephants continue to march, the clown still balances the truth on the tip of his sniffing nose and the Trump spectators fill their peanut galleries with the shells of broken dreams.
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