Rudy Giuliani says Double Agents, Antifa Responsible For Capitol Riot, Not Trump

Donald, Donald, why didn’t you leave Rudy where he was? He was in that nice cemetery floating between dimensions where the ghosts of politics past occasionally arise from their crypts and relive their former glories. Rudy Giuliani had a well tended plot right next to Joe Lieberman and they used to invite Bob Dole over, via seance. Those were the good old days.

But you couldn’t leave it alone, Donald, not you, and so now Rudy is sounding more and more confused as the days go by. He’s playing fast and loose with so many conspiracy theories simultaneously that even he doesn’t know the difference between them, anymore. You probably heard today, already, that the Capitol riot was not caused by himself (you must have imagined hearing “trial by combat” so did I) and Trump, no it was caused by double agents from the Lincoln Project and Antifa, via the Twilight Zone. Or something. You see if you can figure it out. Take your time, you’re not alone.

Rudy Giuliani is blaming the insurrection on @ProjectLincoln pic.twitter.com/tj4tu4k1ux

— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) January 29, 2021

This was on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, and as, you see, it was too batshit even for Bannon. When you’ve reached that juncture, you have travelled quite a piece down the road — yes, the one that leads to Hell, that’s the one we’re talking about here. Daily Beast:

Giuliani, meanwhile, spun a tale about how this one person purportedly linked to The Lincoln Project had the “same motivation as the antifa people had,” which was to “blow this thing up.” He went on to say a lot of the right-wing groups involved in the riot “weren’t pro-Trump” and that the “biggest problems were caused by antifa—where the shooting took place.”

(It appears Giuliani is linking John Sullivan, who recorded the footage of Ashli Babbitt’s shooting and was later arrested for taking part in storming the Capitol, to antifa. While Sullivan took part in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the past, left-wing groups have long denounced him as an “agent provocateur” looking to exploit protest violence for fame.)

“So who’s the guy working with The Lincoln Project?” Bannon eventually circled back.

“I don’t know if I can reveal his name,” Giuliani muttered. “Because we have that from anonymous sources. But he worked in the past for [Utah Sen. Mitt] Romney.”

Bannon, in an oddly rare self-reflective moment, said they are “getting blown up all the time” for tossing out specious and inflammatory speculation of this nature.

“You can’t throw a charge out there like that and then say, ‘I have a double secret probation guy who I can’t mention but he worked for Romney and worked for The Lincoln Project,’” he further scolded Giuliani.

We have now entered a dimension, friend, where the voice of reason is Steve Bannon. Put that one in your crack pipe and smoke it. My Gawd, how many more of these alternate universes will we be travelling through before now and bedtime, do you suppose? And then we’ll wake up and have to believe six more impossible things before breakfast. If Rudy is in the news, that’s an absolute.

And where is Rudy’s co-defendant Sidney Powell? Anybody seen her lately? Maybe that’s why the Pences are couch surfing, they don’t want Sidney to find them. Can’t say as how we blame them.