There’s a narrative out there that Rudy Giuliani is going to “get away with it all” because of the “damage” that Bill Barr did to the case by giving Rudy time to destroy all the evidence before this week’s raid. But in reality nothing works that way.
As expected, it turns out the Feds got Rudy’s electronic communications from his service providers long before the raid. If Rudy tried to destroy anything because he knew the raid was coming, it’ll just mean obstruction of justice charges can be tacked on.
Obviously, Rudy should have been arrested in 2019. But the minute Trump was declared the loser of the election, Rudy was always going to go down. There was no scenario where he magically just got away with it.
In general, when you see pundits lamenting about “damage” and talking about how the bad guys are going to magically get away with it all, you can safely ignore that pundit entirely. Their brand is built around using defeatist doom and gloom to get your attention. It’s crap.
It’s also hilarious that anyone could look at how ineptly Rudy is floundering, and then try to paint him as some kind of secret evil genius who’s outsmarting the Feds as we speak. This kind of punditry isn’t just dishonest, it wears down the would-be activists who win for us.
Trump’s inept goons wouldn’t have lasted five minutes if he hadn’t been there to keep the DOJ from doing its job. But Trump can’t protect them anymore. And the DOJ is eating them alive.
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