Rudy Giuliani is cautionary tale against following Donald Trump's lies: analyst

Rudy Giuliani is cautionary tale against following Donald Trump's lies: analyst
Rudy Giuliani Mugshot (Fulton County sheriff's office)

Rudy Giuliani, once known as America’s mayor and now facing criminal election interference charges and a potentially bank-breaking defamation lawsuit, is a cautionary tale for America about what happens when you follow Donald Trump, political analysts say.

“I think he’s a cautionary tale for the whole country,” Tim Miller, former political director for Republican Voters Against Trump, told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Monday.

“Rudy GIuliani is the prime example of people who have seen consequences for going along with Donald Trump’s lies.”

The former New York City mayor and member of Trump’s legal team headed to court Monday to face a $43 million defamation lawsuit from two Georgia poll workers he falsely accused of tampering with the 2020 election.

Giuliani famously accused the pair of passing around like illegal drugs a USB drive that later discovered to be a ginger candy.

As in Trump’s $250 million New York City fraud case, Giuliani was found liable before court proceedings began.

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Giuliani faces corruption charges in Georgia alongside Trump for his role in the campaign to challenge the 2020 election results, possible disbarment and financial troubles that saw him list his Upper East Side apartment, Jansing noted.

“All of this because he peddled Donald Trump’s election lies,” the MSNBC host said. “I don’t know that there are many downfalls this epic.”

Miller agreed, but voiced concern about Trump’s increasingly strong standing as the conservative candidate going into the 2024 election.

"The Republican party is lock step behind him right now," Miller said. “I think it’s a cautionary tale, but is anyone getting the caution?”

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An administrative policy rolled out by Donald Trump's team will affect everyone living in the United States, according to a Nobel Prize winner.

Economist Paul Krugman likened the economic policies of the president and his team to their tough stance on immigration, with both dealing financial blows across the country. Writing in his Substack, the Nobel Prize winner suggested that, despite most "despising ICE," the administration had "succeeded" in their aims regarding immigration.

He wrote, "Because imports aren’t people, but immigrants are. Now, for those immigrants that are already here, it’s unlikely that we will actually deport a large percentage. And while thousands have been sent to America’s new gulags — sorry, but that’s what ICE detention centers are — their number probably won’t rise into the millions.

"But millions of potential immigrants are being deterred by the fear of detention, deportation, and the breakup of families. And this will hurt all of us. There has already been a thorough debunking of the false claims that immigration hurts the native born. But I will add two more points."

Krugman went on to outline that the admin had even admitted their policies were affecting people across the country, particularly in food supply and the service industry.

"Waging war against immigrants is not resulting in higher employment of the native-born," he wrote. "In fact, it’s contributing to a stalling of the economy in construction and in the service industries. And even the Trump administration has admitted that the immigration crackdown is hurting America’s farmers and the food supply."

Immigration, Krugman argues, actually improved the economic standing of the current administration, as it gives a larger volume to the taxable pool.

"Immigration expands the base of taxpayers, which means more people to share the burden of paying taxes to pay for defense. This includes undocumented immigrants, because their employers collect payroll taxes out of their wages, with the added fiscal payoff that they will never collect benefits.

"And because immigrants are relatively young and healthy, they increase the amount going into government coffers while having a delayed impact on outlays. The Social Security Administration does sensitivity analysis of factors affecting its projections, and consistently finds that higher immigration improves the system’s financial health, while lower immigration worsens it.

"Trump, Miller, and company are succeeding in their anti-immigrant crusade, despite many failures of implementation, because they are managing to scare away millions of people who wanted to live and work in the United States, contributing to our society. And this 'success' will leave us poorer and weaker."

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Final preparations are underway for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission around the Moon for more than 50 years. Four astronauts, three men and one woman, will spend 10 days aboard the Orion spacecraft, going further into space than any other humans as they orbit the Moon and return to Earth.

Issues caused by a fuel leak while testing the Space Launch System rocket used for the mission meant launch windows in February and March were missed. Now NASA is targeting early April for launch.

The mission is the next step of the Artemis programme, which plans to land astronauts back to the Moon by 2028. China has its own programme targeting a full crewed mission to the lunar surface by 2030.

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast we speak to Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University about why NASA is sending people back round the Moon. Pace worked in space policy for the George W. Bush Administration, followed by a stint at NASA before his appointment as the executive secretary of the National Space Council during the first Trump administration, where he worked on the launch of the Artemis programme.

No human has set foot on the Moon since Gene Cernan climbed back aboard Apollo 17 in 1972. Pace says that once the Americans had beaten the Russians to the Moon “the geopolitical reason for continuing those missions really wasn’t there”.

Today, Pace believes the “geopolitical purpose for being on the Moon is to be there a lot”. He compares the Moon to Antarctica, arguing that the US and its allies have influence over Antarctica in part because they put 3,000 people on the ice every summer. “Rules are made by people who show up,” he says. It matters to him if China beats the US back to the Moon, “if China drives all the standards and the operating norms”.

For Pace, this means it’s important to up the flight rate to the lunar surface by building capacity to send more than one crewed mission a year. He thinks Artemis’s partnerships with commercial space partners will be crucial to achieving this.

“What we’re seeing now with Artemis is NASA and industry learning how to fly to the Moon, and then making a decision about what will be a sustainable future for doing this,” says Pace. “That is a current debate that will shape what happens after Artemis II.”

Brandon Straka, a Jan. 6 participant who was sentenced to three years of probation, slammed the "leader worship" of President Donald Trump.

During a Friday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Straka began by advising that "the right is not all right." He noted that while he was being prosecuted for his actions on Jan. 6, only then-Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) would return his calls.

"This is not an easy moment for our movement," he told the crowd. "There's frustration, there's division, and there's a growing sense that something doesn't feel right. That the right is not all right."

According to Straka, the MAGA movement "has been split."

"This divide is ideological, it's tribal, it's fanatical, it's doctrinal, it's irrationally emotional," he explained. "Marjorie was one of the only elected members of Congress to visit J6ers in prison... And now a directive has gone out that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a traitor. And if you want to be a part of the in-crowd, it is mandatory that you must hate her too."

"When did we become the left?" the right-wing activist asked. "When did we decide that not only must we cancel those we disagree with, but we must control the people around us with intimidation, demanding that they think the way we think and join the cancel mob to or be branded themselves? And when did we allow some of the most toxic, nasty, and vicious people on the planet to become the spokespeople for MAGA and the arbiters of purity tests, deciding who is and isn't worthy enough to continue to call themselves MAGA?"

Straka wondered when MAGA decided "it was off limits to question our own government."

"If you call yourself a patriot, but you believe that it is your obligation to only praise and only worship your president, then you must not be a patriot of this country, because leader worship is how citizens behave in nations that aren't free," he asserted. "You can love your president, and you should. But it is your duty and your obligation as a free citizen of the United States of America to challenge and question your government every day, regardless of who the president of the United States is."

"In fact, the most unpatriotic thing you can ever do is go with the flow and give your unquestioning loyalty to the government and demand that others around you do the same," he added. "I know many of you out there agree. Everything seems, at times, very fake and gay. And I strive to be authentic and gay. I think we should all strive to be authentic and gay every day."

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