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<blockquote data-quote="Zable" data-source="post: 117887" data-attributes="member: 47"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Rudy Giuliani has violated the Trumpworld canon</strong>, writes Alexandra Petri for <em>The Washington Post</em> (May 4th, 2018) </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Excerpt:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The boundaries of Trumpworld are controlled only by the Word of God (Trump, its creator). His statements alone carry weight, until they don’t. Some figures are welcomed into the story as recurring, active characters (Jared, Ivanka); others dip in and out of existence entirely (Tiffany). It is impossible to keep all these story lines and relationships straight — even the Creator cannot always do so.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">This is the reality-TV kind of reality where, in post-production, you can unsay anything. If Trump hadn’t been elected president, he would still be building this world in his basement.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">If this were simply real life or simply fiction, it would be much easier. But Trumpworld is a fictional universe in which real people are being forced to live. So you cannot say something either happened or did not happen. You must check with the Creator to see whether it happened, and sometimes his answer will change mid-sentence. Somebody who thought she was familiar with the plot points will make a statement that seems to logically follow, and it will turn out that she did not know what she was talking about. Since Trumpworld’s purchase by the American people, we had expected to have a more stable narrative, but that does not suit the Creator’s purposes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">And now Rudy Giuliani, I am ashamed to say, has run afoul of canon.</span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #b30059">[News break] </span>Rudy who?</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px">Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, “an American politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and an informal adviser on cybersecurity to the White House”, according to his Wikipedia profile. The announcement that he was joining President Donald Trump’s team of outside counsel (ie, not the attorneys who are with the President in the White House) came about a fortnight ago.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #b30059">[Resume news]</span></span></p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Giuliani thought he was helping by sharing some fun new stories he had discovered about the president, but it turned out he was violating the first rule of Trump canon, which is that only Trump can set canon.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">First, Giuliani explained that Trump had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for his $130,000 in hush payments to Stormy Daniels. “I don’t think the president realized he paid him back for that specific thing until we made him aware of the paperwork,” Giuliani told NBC News, claiming that the president replied, “‘Oh my goodness, I guess that’s what it was for.’” But it was fine, because the funds were not campaign-related, though Giuliani could not help reflecting that it would have been bad for the campaign had this story come out closer to the election.</span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #b30059">[News break] </span>Other news....</span></p> <ul style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>FOX & Friends</em> tweeted "Mr Giuliani had said: <em>Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen $130K for expenses, but it was not campaign money</em>."</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>Spectator</em> (USA edition) reported that after Mr Giuliani had revealed that reimbursement by Mr Trump to Mr Cohen when interviewed by Sean Hannity, "Mr Giuliani told the <em>New York Times</em> that he had evidence which proved Trump had paid the $130,000 sum through $35,000 monthly instalments<em> 'some time after the campaign [was] over'"</em> . </span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>Spectator</em> also reported that "Mr Giuliani told <em>The Washington Post</em> that he’d spoken to the President before and after the interview , and Trump was well aware that he was going to let this explosive fact slip:<em> ‘He was well-aware that at some point when I saw the opportunity, I was going to get this over with,' </em>Giuliani said<em>".</em></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="font-size: 18px">Source: <a href="https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/is-rudy-giuliani-all-there/" target="_blank">https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/is-rudy-giuliani-all-there/</a></span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #b30059">[Resume news]</span></span></p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Then Giuliani said Trump fired James B. Comey because he refused to clear the president’s name in the Russia investigation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">These were not authorized additions to canon.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Giuliani “just started a day ago, but he really has his heart into it,” Trump explained, and he did not say things the way they ought to be said. He is still “learning the subject matter.” (He did not start just a day ago, but as any follower of Trumpworld would understand, “yesterday” is a metaphor, like a day in Genesis, or the dreaded phrase “got coffee one or two times” — spoken prior to erasing someone from the canon entirely.)</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Source: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/05/04/rudy-giuliani-has-violated-the-trumpworld-canon/?utm_term=.ad0d811d5df2" target="_blank"><u>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/05/04/rudy-giuliani-has-violated-the-trumpworld-canon/?utm_term=.ad0d811d5df2</u></a></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Also, too, this past week, Mr Giuliani spun the tale that the basis for the Mueller case is dead; McCabe and Comey are at loggerheads; and Michael Avenatti is an ambulance chaser with an eye on 30% of his client’s takings; among other things….. </span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px">[MEDIA=youtube]wtItjwLSEU0[/MEDIA]</p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Which didn’t go uncommented upon…..</span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px">[MEDIA=youtube]30r1bqIVPAI[/MEDIA]</p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Mr Giuliani has also likened FBI agents to stormtroopers. It didn’t go unnoticed that Republican leadership are deaf over this.....</span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px">(NB: The title of this video is clickbait. James Comey does <em>not</em> comment here. For that, see his twitter account. <a href="https://twitter.com/comey?lang=en" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/comey?lang=en</a>) </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">[MEDIA=youtube]ROq5iXQAzmY[/MEDIA]</p> </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">“This is not theater of the absurd; it is actually what is happening at the White House. The tangle of stories and explanations and contradictions by President Donald Trump, his lawyers and his press secretary about the payoff by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen of porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election is knotted so tight it has become impossible to follow one thread.” ~ Z. Brian Wolf, for CNN Politics. Excerpted from: <strong>It is officially impossible to understand what Trump is saying about Stormy Daniels</strong> (May 4th, 2018) </span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-damage-control/index.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 18px">https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-damage-control/index.html</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zable, post: 117887, member: 47"] [SIZE=5][B]Rudy Giuliani has violated the Trumpworld canon[/B], writes Alexandra Petri for [I]The Washington Post[/I] (May 4th, 2018) [/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Excerpt:[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]The boundaries of Trumpworld are controlled only by the Word of God (Trump, its creator). His statements alone carry weight, until they don’t. Some figures are welcomed into the story as recurring, active characters (Jared, Ivanka); others dip in and out of existence entirely (Tiffany). It is impossible to keep all these story lines and relationships straight — even the Creator cannot always do so.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]This is the reality-TV kind of reality where, in post-production, you can unsay anything. If Trump hadn’t been elected president, he would still be building this world in his basement.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]If this were simply real life or simply fiction, it would be much easier. But Trumpworld is a fictional universe in which real people are being forced to live. So you cannot say something either happened or did not happen. You must check with the Creator to see whether it happened, and sometimes his answer will change mid-sentence. Somebody who thought she was familiar with the plot points will make a statement that seems to logically follow, and it will turn out that she did not know what she was talking about. Since Trumpworld’s purchase by the American people, we had expected to have a more stable narrative, but that does not suit the Creator’s purposes.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]And now Rudy Giuliani, I am ashamed to say, has run afoul of canon.[/SIZE] [INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=#b30059][News break] [/COLOR]Rudy who?[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, “an American politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and an informal adviser on cybersecurity to the White House”, according to his Wikipedia profile. The announcement that he was joining President Donald Trump’s team of outside counsel (ie, not the attorneys who are with the President in the White House) came about a fortnight ago.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=#b30059][Resume news][/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT] [SIZE=5]Giuliani thought he was helping by sharing some fun new stories he had discovered about the president, but it turned out he was violating the first rule of Trump canon, which is that only Trump can set canon.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]First, Giuliani explained that Trump had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for his $130,000 in hush payments to Stormy Daniels. “I don’t think the president realized he paid him back for that specific thing until we made him aware of the paperwork,” Giuliani told NBC News, claiming that the president replied, “‘Oh my goodness, I guess that’s what it was for.’” But it was fine, because the funds were not campaign-related, though Giuliani could not help reflecting that it would have been bad for the campaign had this story come out closer to the election.[/SIZE] [INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=#b30059][News break] [/COLOR]Other news....[/SIZE] [LIST] [*][SIZE=5][I]FOX & Friends[/I] tweeted "Mr Giuliani had said: [I]Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen $130K for expenses, but it was not campaign money[/I]."[/SIZE] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][SIZE=5][I]Spectator[/I] (USA edition) reported that after Mr Giuliani had revealed that reimbursement by Mr Trump to Mr Cohen when interviewed by Sean Hannity, "Mr Giuliani told the [I]New York Times[/I] that he had evidence which proved Trump had paid the $130,000 sum through $35,000 monthly instalments[I] 'some time after the campaign [was] over'"[/I] . [/SIZE] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][SIZE=5][I]Spectator[/I] also reported that "Mr Giuliani told [I]The Washington Post[/I] that he’d spoken to the President before and after the interview , and Trump was well aware that he was going to let this explosive fact slip:[I] ‘He was well-aware that at some point when I saw the opportunity, I was going to get this over with,' [/I]Giuliani said[I]".[/I][/SIZE] [/LIST] [I][SIZE=5]Source: [URL]https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/is-rudy-giuliani-all-there/[/URL][/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=5][COLOR=#b30059][Resume news][/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT] [SIZE=5]Then Giuliani said Trump fired James B. Comey because he refused to clear the president’s name in the Russia investigation.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]These were not authorized additions to canon.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Giuliani “just started a day ago, but he really has his heart into it,” Trump explained, and he did not say things the way they ought to be said. He is still “learning the subject matter.” (He did not start just a day ago, but as any follower of Trumpworld would understand, “yesterday” is a metaphor, like a day in Genesis, or the dreaded phrase “got coffee one or two times” — spoken prior to erasing someone from the canon entirely.)[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Source: [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/05/04/rudy-giuliani-has-violated-the-trumpworld-canon/?utm_term=.ad0d811d5df2'][U]https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/05/04/rudy-giuliani-has-violated-the-trumpworld-canon/?utm_term=.ad0d811d5df2[/U][/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Also, too, this past week, Mr Giuliani spun the tale that the basis for the Mueller case is dead; McCabe and Comey are at loggerheads; and Michael Avenatti is an ambulance chaser with an eye on 30% of his client’s takings; among other things….. [/SIZE] [INDENT][INDENT][MEDIA=youtube]wtItjwLSEU0[/MEDIA][/INDENT][/INDENT] [SIZE=5]Which didn’t go uncommented upon…..[/SIZE] [INDENT][INDENT][MEDIA=youtube]30r1bqIVPAI[/MEDIA][/INDENT][/INDENT] [SIZE=5]Mr Giuliani has also likened FBI agents to stormtroopers. It didn’t go unnoticed that Republican leadership are deaf over this.....[/SIZE] [INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=5](NB: The title of this video is clickbait. James Comey does [I]not[/I] comment here. For that, see his twitter account. [URL]https://twitter.com/comey?lang=en[/URL]) [/SIZE] [MEDIA=youtube]ROq5iXQAzmY[/MEDIA][/INDENT][/INDENT] [SIZE=5]“This is not theater of the absurd; it is actually what is happening at the White House. The tangle of stories and explanations and contradictions by President Donald Trump, his lawyers and his press secretary about the payoff by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen of porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election is knotted so tight it has become impossible to follow one thread.” ~ Z. Brian Wolf, for CNN Politics. Excerpted from: [B]It is officially impossible to understand what Trump is saying about Stormy Daniels[/B] (May 4th, 2018) [/SIZE][URL='https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-damage-control/index.html'][U][SIZE=5]https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-damage-control/index.html[/SIZE][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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