Thread by @P_Kallioniemi

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American politician and disbarred lawyer, Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani). He’s best-known for meddling with the pro-Kremlin forces in Ukraine, and for organizing the infamous Four Seasons Landscaping press conference.

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Giuliani rose to fame as the mayor of NYC between 1994 and 2001. He adopted an aggressive enforcement strategy and organized crackdowns on relatively minor offenses like graffiti and cannabis possession. His role in the 9/11 aftermath made him a global superstar.

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This fame gave Rudy new opportunities, and in 2006 he was invited to the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), a group that assessed the situation in Iraq. He was soon kicked out of the group due to being more interested in making money by public speaking gigs.

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Rudy ran for president in 2008, but his campaign was ruined by corruption accusations, extramarital affairs, and Rudy’s previous endorsement of criminals like Bernard Kerik, who later plead guilty to tax fraud (and was pardoned by Donald Trump).

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After Rudy’s popularity had declined drastically, he ended up Donald Trump’s advisor and personal lawyer. His first tasks were defending Trump against allegations of racism, sexual harassment, and not paying federal income tax for two decades.

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Trump wanted to repay Rudy’s obedience, and at some point he was believed to be picked for secretary of state in Trump’s administration. This never happened, but Trump named Rudy as his “informal cybersecurity adviser” in Jan 2017. Two weeks after the appointment…

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… Hackerman Giuliani showed his computing skills when he had to consult Apple Store experts after he “was locked out of his iPhone because he had forgotten the passcode and entered the wrong one at least 10 times.”

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In 2018, after Mueller started investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, Rudy was added to Trump’s legal team.

He also worked on the so-called hush money case, in which Trump’s team tried to hide the fact that he had slept with pornstar Stormy Daniels.

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During 2018, after Paul Manafort’s conviction over his shady deals in Ukraine, Giuliani quickly became the most Ukraine-connected person of the Trump team. He had travelled and met with pro-Kremlin figures in Russia, Armenia and Ukraine on many occasions.

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Rudy started working with two shady businessmen, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. They tried to find dirt on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, who had played a role on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

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Parnas later asked Trump to recall the Ambassador of Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and Trump complied. Yovanovitch had been a vocal opponent of corruption in Ukraine, and apparently that was bad for business. Two months later Trump had a call with President Zelenskyy…

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… asking again for a “favor” and to start investigations on Hunter Biden, urging him to meet with Giuliani. After Zelenskyy refused, Trump blocked payment of a mandated 400 million USD military aid package to Ukraine. In Dec 2019, Giuliani flew to Ukraine to meet with…

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… Yanukovych-ally and KGB trainee Andrii Derkach, who has been the most active Russian asset in spreading Biden-related disinformation to media organizations and US officials. Derkach was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2020 for his efforts to influence US elections.

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Rudy’s shady business deals also involved Ukrainian oligarch Dmytry Firtash, a man who’s been characterized as being an “upper echelon of Russian organized crime”. Later, in 2021, CNN published a phone call from Giuliani to Ukraine, in which Rudy…

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… “relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden.” In Nov 2019, WSJ reported that Rudy and his associates were investigated on potential charges including money laundering…

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… obstruction of justice, making false statements, mail/wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Interestingly, the prosecutors later decided not to indict Giuliani for his and his associates’ questionable activities in Ukraine.

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Giuliani was closely connected to the vatniks creating and spreading the false narrative over Hunter Biden’s connection to the Ukrainian company Burisma. In Nov 2023, Ukrainian SBU jailed one of them, Ukrainian Oleksandr Dubinsky whom Rudy hat met before.

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Several experts have suggested that Giuliani may have violated the Logan Act with his shady businesses in Eastern Europe, and some have suggested that he failed to register for the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) while working as Trump’s lawyer.

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After the voter fraud allegations in the 2020 US elections, Giuliani was put in charge of the lawsuits. Rudy quickly organized the most ridiculous press conference in the history of mankind at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping,a landscaping company in Philadelphia.During…
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… the press conference Giuliani & his “elite strike force” made allegations about “an international Communist conspiracy” and rigged voting machines. As of today, the lawsuit by the Dominion Voting System and Smartmatic against Giuliani and Sidney Powell is still ongoing.

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Once dubbed “America’s Mayor”, Rudy has since become a laughing stock. After losing a defamation lawsuit in Dec 2023, he filed for bankruptcy.

His law license has been suspended, he’s been accused of sexual assault & even of selling pardons for 2 million apiece with Trump.
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Another infamous Rudy Giuliani moment was seen in the movie Borat 2, in which he flirts with a fake reporter and later, after being invited to the hotel room by the actress, reaches for his trousers and allegedly touches his genitals.

I mean, just watch the clip below.

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