💥But the article points out that Rudy Giuliani was walking the streets on 9/11 because his Emergency Center—which he insisted on locating on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center—in spite of advice from the Police Commissioner was gone.
🍸There are many people who don't believe in the story that Giuliani has recently had a "fall from grace." The article quotes legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin describing Giuliani with “naked aggression and a thirst for attention.” Aggression, meaning refusal to listen to subordinates
🦸♂️Posting this article for the picture. This is the image that most people had about Rudy Giuliani.
🇺🇸9/11: he stepped forward as a leader to the entire country.
🦸He not only stepped up as a leader; he knew when to be serious; he knew when to give updates.
🌆Giuliani on Saturday Night Live: “NYorkers are unified. We will not yield to terrorism. We will not let our decisions be made out of fear. We choose to live our lives in freedom."
🎼After Paul Simon's performance, Lorne Michaels came on stage.
🤡"Can we be funny?" he deadpanned.
🎯"Why start now?" Giuliani answered.
🇺🇸This arguably started the healing phase for the entire country.
🧚♂️But the Atlantic article points out that the nonpartisan 9/11 Commission "later examined Giuliani’s track record and found it less than mythical," citing the destruction of the Emergency headquarters and the lack of communication between the Fire & Police Departments.
Then there is a book. It's called "Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11."
Authors/journalists Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins interviewed John Farmer, the 9/11 Commission’s senior counsel, and "punctured" the image of America’s mayor. smile.amazon.com/Grand-Illusion…
🚨Farmer is quoted, “I really think it would have made a difference. Maybe the failure to communicate among the agencies doesn’t happen that day because that thing is functioning. That’s the point of it…I think the number of responder deaths could have been greatly reduced.”
⚡️“It was at once the dumbest decision he ever made & the one that made him a legend. If the center had been elsewhere, all the dramatic visuals that had turned Giuliani into a nomad warrior would instead have been tense but tame footage from its barren press conference room.”
💣After the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage, there was plenty of time to solve the communication problem between the Fire & Police Departments.
🚨A committee was formed. It concluded they should use the same emergency frequency & practice together.
⚡️But under Rudy Giuliani, the committee was disbanded in 1994. So no practice.
👨🚒👮♂️The 9/11 Commission conclusion: “Any attempt to establish a unified command on 9/11 would have been frustrated by the lack of communication and coordination among responding agencies.”
🍸And Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough revealed in May why Giuliani didn't get a cabinet position: “I can mention this: Everybody around Donald Trump said he was drinking too much—Donald Trump suggested as much—that was two years ago."
Then there's also the failed 2008 run for president. The strategy to virtually ignore primaries in #Iowa, #NewHampshire, #Michigan—& #Nevada & #SouthCarolina caucuses—& concentrate on #Florida: "one of the biggest miscalculations in US campaign history."
💑And the obvious scandal created when after being spotted around town with his soon-to-be third wife, Giuliani announced his his separation from his second wife at a press conference—without informing her first.
🏛️Remember this? Giuliani ran for U.S. Senate for a while against Hillary Clinton in 2000, then when "reports showed Clinton gaining upstate and generally outworking Giuliani," he dropped out.
💥During one 4-week period, his affair with soon-to-be third wife Judith Nathan became very public; he announced he had prostate cancer and needed treatment; he announced his separation from Donna Hanover at that press conference; he dropped out.
📺📻🗞️Media free-for-all!
💥If this CBS report represents how Giuliani was campaigning in 2008, it's not as surprising he was forced to quit.
💬Giuliani was telling stories "with a bemused smile & a NY twinkle in his eye, almost like Sinatra ribbing Dean Martin at a cabaret."
🇷🇺On the other hand, Dana Rohrabacher: The Kremlin Likes Him So Much They Gave Him a Code Name
ℹ️Refresher course: Putin kills people. His enemies. Journalists. Innocent people. He wants Democracy to die in every country lucky enough to still have it.
🔥White supremacist protesters—White nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members—brandished torches and marched onto the UVA campus in Charlottesville, VA.
👉Photo Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/@washingtonpost via Getty Images
🔥🔥Saturday, August 12, 2017 a similar, bigger rally called "Unite the Right" held at noon erupted in many brawls. Alex Fields, a reported Nazi sympathizer drove a Dodge Challenger blindly into the crowd and killed 32-year old Heather Heyer.
Trump: the violence? "Many sides."
🧚♀️MOB RULE?!?!
🧚♀️10/6/18 ▶️Women—upset with the inevitability with a Supreme Court nominee getting sworn in—a nominee who clearly lied, had multiple credible sexual allegations against him, had a surly demeanor and was blatantly partisan, protested peacefully.
💬"The history is exactly what I told you."—Mitch McConnell
🤥🐢An hour after Judge Antony Scalia died: "The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
🤥🐢"We simply followed the tradition in America, which is if you have a party of a different—a different Senate of a different party than the president, you don't fill a vacancy created in the presidential year. That went all the way back to 1888."
🤥🐢Will McConnell fill a SCOTUS vacancy in Trump's last year? "The answer to your question is, we'll see if there's a vacancy in 2020."
💬No answer.
▶️Mitch, you didn't attack Merrick Garland because you couldn't.
▶️You never mentioned "opposing party" caveat in 2016
🌍Unilever just recently announced it was abandoning plans to move its headquarters from the U.K. to Holland after the Brexit vote (the U.K. leaving the European Union) as many other companies have done.
🔥🔥Yes, Brett Kavanaugh. The judge cited twice=Gorsuch. Is this a coincidence?
▶️One of the 4 reasons Concord's lawyers moved to dismiss was that they claimed Concord had no knowledge that the crime they were committing was actually a crime. Kavanaugh supported this theory.
9⃣Yes, Brett Kavanaugh's opinions are cited NINE times by a Russian company seeking to get Mueller's charges dropped.
Mueller charged Concord, 2 other Russian companies and 12 foreigners associated with Russia for illegally using social media platforms to SOW POLITICAL DISCORD.
▶️couldn't he answer so many simple "yes" or "no" questions?
▶️didn't he ask for further investigation by the FBI?
▶️did he try to destroy evidence?
▶️is Trump mocking his accuser at his "rally?"
⁉️If Kavanaugh was innocent, why:
▶️is Trump fabricating this war against young men?
▶️does he claim all his friends refuted Dr. Ford's claims when Dr. Ford TOLD NO ONE FOR DECADES?
▶️did he say "Devil's Triangle" was a drinking game?
⁉️If Kavanaugh was innocent, why:
▶️did he say "boofing" was flatulence?
▶️did he claim no prior knowledge of Deborah Ramirez' claims before the @NewYorker article?
▶️did he evade Patrick Leahy's question about being called "Bart?"