Trump lawyer — Rudy Giuliani's showily manipulative intellect — demonstrates how integrity's absence is rewarded in the United States

© 2018 Peter Free

 

21 August 2018

 

 

Rudy's always been Rudy

 

Rudy Giuliani has always been a self-promoting blowhard. Now, he's President Trump's frontman lawyer.

 

True to form, Rudy said recently — with regard to whether a presidential conversation actually took place:

 

 

[T]o prosecutors, the truth is relative and it’s not absolute like some philosophical concept.

 

© 2018 Ed Mazza, Rudy Follows Up ‘Truth Isn’t Truth’ Flub With An Even More Baffling Explanation, Huffington Post (21 August 2018)

 

 

Admittedly, we do see the former Mayor's "slimy lawyer" point

 

Who cares whether truth is truth?

 

Especially so, for a prosecutor in pursuit of conviction numbers.

 

With Giuliani's amorphous definition of legal truth, for example, we can slide millions of black folk into prison, whether they're guilty or not.

 

Criminal truth is in practice (we can infer) somewhat more, but not rigidly so, about "white" than "black".

 

Shouldn't it be?

 

(Huey, Bobby, Martin and Malcolm — y'all be quiet, please.)

 

 

In a jam, would you want Rudy to be your lawyer?

 

Probably not.

 

Most of us want someone obviously capable, and not so likely to trip over his own voluminously spewing mouth. Or ours.

 

 

So, with all that — why is Giuliani one of Trump's attorneys?

 

Probably because the President is such an impetuously undisciplined pain in the ass, that no one with integrity wanted to represent him.

 

 

This state of "it's all relative" — leaves us here

 

With an intellectually and truth-challenged president:

 

 

who displays an unparalleled genius for delusionary showmanship

 

hiring a truth-defying lawyer,

 

who also demonstrates the gold standard for circus illusion —

 

to "capably" lead the United States to its

 

(now probably permanent)

 

state of bog-sinking vacuity.

 

 

The moral? — Let the show go on

 

What could be more ostentatiously fun, than letting thumb-in-your-eye noxiousness stay in charge?

 

(Not to imply that the administration's Deep State opponents and Robert Mueller are ethically better.)

 

It's all diddling monkeys, as far as the eye can see.

 

In such fashion, have 1776 and 1789 become 2018.

 

Was this outcome forecast by the Founders' initiating cards?