Legal experts on both sides say, given the allegations in the indictment, Rudi Giuliani is likely to be the subject of a formal prosecution in the matter at some point.
When the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, read out the details of her historic indictment of Donald Trump and 17 others this week, there was a distinct moment of drama as we waited to hear who would have the dubious honour of being named right after the former president: “Rudy Giuliani, of course, was once a powerful law-enforcement official himself. For years he was a US attorney in Manhattan, fearlessly going up against mafia figures and Wall Street bad guys.
Anyone who holds the reins of a sprawling mess like NYC for eight years is not an insignificant person. But it must be said that, absent September 11, Giuliani’s career would have been much different. He’d have worn out his welcome in New York by the end of his second term; hisMany New Yorkers watched with disbelief as the terrorist strikes turned him from a crank being shown the door into a hero.
In the years since the election he has become the biggest punchline in American political life, which, in this golden age of political poltroons, is saying something. There was the now-infamous Four Seasons press conference in Philadelphia, held not at a swanky downtown hotel but at a nondescript suburban landscaping business tucked in between a crematorium and a porn store.
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