Rudy on the Skids

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

I had a good friend who lived and worked in New York City from the early 1970's until the mid-1990's when she finally decided to head back to the sanity of the Great Midwest.  My friend spent her years in the Big Apple on the fringes of the theatre community, but her primary occupation was as a teacher in one of the city's Catholic schools.  It was while teaching that she met and became an admirer of Rudy Giuliani.  If memory serves, Rudy's children, Andrew and Caroline, may have attended her school.

Anyway, back around the time Giuliani was running for Mayor of New York City the second time (1993) my friend bent my ear about what a fine person he was, and, in my opinion she was a fairly good judge of character.  But that was Rudy then, when he had just come off of a legal career that included service as a US Associate Attorney General (1981-1983), and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1983-1989).  In those roles Guiliani had helped to bring down some of New York's prominent mob bosses and other dangerous criminal types.

Giuliani ran for mayor in 1989 but was not successful, but he did win on his second try in 1993.  While serving as Mayor of New York City he began the ultimately successful effort to clean up the X-rated prurience around Times Square.

That was about the time my friend knew Rudy.  He was a rock star locking up bad guys and scrubbing down the streets.  

But today Rudy's veneer of energy, intelligence and respectability is starting to wear thin.   He went from being "America's Mayor" in the aftermath of 9/11 to being  a US President's resident clown less than twenty years later.  Perhaps the most vivid example of Rudy's fall from respectability came with the release of the second "Borat" film last year, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," in which Rudy got conned into following Borat's daughter into a hotel room where he then lies on a bed and is seen reaching down into his pants - a move he later described as an attempt to "adjust" his underwear.

Maybe Rudy felt at ease with the Borat situation because he had dealt with the Ukrainians who had similar accents during a trip to Ukraine that he undertook for his presidential client in 2019 as he was trying to dig up dirt on the Biden family.  Now, of course, all of those efforts to control the narrative from the Ukraine have gotten the attention of the FBI, and those good folks recently raided Rudy's home and office seizing documents and electronic equipment that might shed some light on his involvement in that squalid affair.

And there's more, lot's more.  

Rudy may be facing some money problems.  For one thing, his only client has a history of not paying his lawyers.  Rudy has apparently requested that his client help fund his (Rudy's) defense, but the client who is well known for placing his own interests above those of everyone else, has so far ignored  Rudy's pleadings for funding.   As another indication that money may be tight in Camp Giuliani, the lawyer with one client has reportedly begun laying off staff.

There are also reports that Giuliani has written (or is writing) a book about his time working for the former President. but that he has received little or no help in the effort from his former employer - and that publishers may not be showing quite the level of interest that Giuliani had hoped for.

One day you are America's mayor, and the next you're struggling to maintain even a modicum of respectability.  Rudy Giuliani is on the skids hurtling toward the slop bucket of history - and he only has himself and his client to blame for his demise.