There is nothing ditzier in this world than a defensive drunk. The headline here is from an old joke where the drunk is in front of the judge and the judge tells him he’s got to pay damages to the hotel for setting the bed on fire and he replies, “I didn’t set the bed on fire, Your Honor, it was on fire when I got into it.”
And maybe this particular bed was. Rudy was a part of the Trump administration, after all, and if that wasn’t a bed on fire, with 330 million of us all together in it, then I don’t know what is.
In any event, Rudy would have you know that he does not drink. No, Sir. His beverage of choice is Diet Pepsi (I wish Joan Crawford was still alive) and Rudy refused all alcholic beverage that evening. And Steve Bannon backs him up on this, and if you can’t trust the word of Steve Bannon when the subject is alcohol, who can you trust? Say what you will about John Boehner. We may have mocked his drinking back in the day, but he never got anywhere close to this level.
Rudy and Jason Miller are now totally on the outs, and he’s not too crazy about Bill Stepien, either. Daily Beast:
“I was upset that they were not prepared for the massive cheating (as well as other lawyers around the President) I REFUSED all alcohol that evening. My favorite drink..Diet Pepsi.”
In a second tweet, he added, “Is the false testimony from Miller and Steppien [sic] because I yelled at them? Are they being paid to lie?” Giuliani later deleted the tweets.
Giuliani’s allies also rushed to his defense. Former NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik ripped into Miller while stating Giuliani “was not drinking at all.” Appearing on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, the longtime Trumpworld acolyte added, “I don’t know why he [Miller] made this statement.” Bannon, a longtime pal of Miller’s, insisted that Giuliani “has too much respect for the White House and office of the presidency” to ever be intoxicated like that. Likewise, ex-Trump aide Boris Epshteyn claimed that Giuliani was “sober” that night.
On his Tuesday afternoon radio program on New York’s WABC, Giuliani was still fuming. “The group of people that says that I were drunk are the group of people that blew the election for the president,” he said.
“I don’t lie,” he claimed. “I tell the truth.”
In vino veritas, in wine there is truth, believe me Rudy, I get it.
Miller, who didn’t respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment on Tuesday, told the committee in his videotaped testimony that, on election night, he said “we should not go and declare victory until we had a better sense of the numbers.” But Giuliani became defiant and told Trump’s team, “We won it, they’re stealing it from us… we need to go say that we won.”
Miller said Giuliani’s aggressive tone was that “anyone who didn’t agree with that position was being weak.”
Giuliani went on to spearhead Trump’s increasingly unhinged—and unsuccessful—campaign to overturn the election results by floating bizarre conspiracies including dope-dealing ballot-counters in Georgia to vote-flipping machines created by Venezuela.
You know who else was a drunk? Joseph McCarthy. And look at the havoc he wreaked. I have shared this before, but will share it again, I was friends with a guy who was McCarthy’s roommate in the Marines. McCarthy did not drink at that time but he loved to cheat at cards. Later on, post-Marines, he began drinking and after he became a social pariah in Washington, he holed up in an office building “with a case of scotch, a gun, and a blonde,” as it was described to me, because he couldn’t live in a house or apartment because of all the people who wanted to kill him. My friend, whose name was Duane Faw, and who was appointed to the rank of General by Richard Nixon, told me that was the last time he saw McCarthy alive, was hiding in the office building, away from the windows. He died the following year.
Who knows what will happen to Rudy Giuliani? Because I see him on the exact same crazy downward spiral.
Maybe Rudy could get a job pitching Diet Pepsi? You suppose they’d be interested?
Duane Faw, a friend or relative?