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

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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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Trump's 'cognitive decline' already cost him a key talent: family member

President Donald Trump has lost a long-time talent because of his "cognitive decline," one of his family members said.

During an episode of Fast Politics, host Molly Jong-Fast spoke with Mary Trump, who is the president's niece, a psychologist, and a frequent critic. The two were talking about Trump's speech at Lindsey Graham's funeral and the White House Correspondents' Dinner when Jong-Fast asked if Trump had lost the ability to read the room.

"Did he used to be able to not say the quiet part out loud?" Jong-Fast asked.

"Donald did have the ability to read the room better," Mary Trump said. "He was good at pushing the envelope in ways and then recalibrate in real time."

As an example, Mary Trump pointed to a time when Trump was speaking at one of his MAGA rallies shortly after the COVID vaccine came out. "He was speaking positively about the vaccine, and he got booed," Mary Trump recalled. "And we never heard him say that again."

However, she sees that her uncle has lost the ability to change what he's saying to appease an audience, and she blamed it on his declining cognitive health.

"Now we're seeing that he does not have the ability to do that. What that means is he's losing impulse control," Mary Trump said. "And that's a part of his overall cognitive decline."

Jong-Fast said Trump also "really bombed" at his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech and "didn't recalibrate. He just criticized the speech and kept going."

"You've got this very old man who's clearly not doing well in every category of being human, psychologically, emotionally, cognitively, physically," Mary Trump said.

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'Serious case of lie-abetes': MAGA pundit slammed after downplaying Trump polling slump

A CNN panel piled on a MAGA pundit who downplayed a key reason polls show that Americans disapprove of Trump.

The panel, hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip, was discussing why Trump's approval ratings were underwater on key issues with a few months to go before the midterms. When immigration came up, MAGA commentator Jason Rantz found himself in a corner as the panel shut him down.

Democratic political strategist Antjuan Seawright said, "Americans see the $70 billion slush fund Republicans gave to ICE, and they see people being murdered."

"Not a single American who was polled there was pointing directly to that," Rantz said. "I guarantee you."

Seawright rejected the argument. He said that the conversations Americans are having about immigration right now center around "ICE killing people in cold blood, in the streets, on camera."

However, Rantz shook his head at Seawright as he spoke and rejected that ICE killed anyone in cold blood. As Rantz shook his head, Democratic strategist Christine Quinn yelled, "It did happen!" Rantz kept shaking his head, though, saying, "No," as Quinn repeated, "It did happen."

"No, you're interpreting certain instances in which people have been killed," Rantz said. "But this idea that they're being murdered in cold blood."

Quinn shouted, "Renee Good and Alex Pretti," before Rantz could finish his statement, referring to the two people who were fatally shot by federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis in January. Rantz argued that Good "almost ran over an ICE agent, which we all saw."

Seawright told Rantz he was "suffering from a serious case of lie-abetes," playing on the word diabetes.

Trump White House rages at singer Noah Kahan for refusing to let it use his music

The Trump White House lost its cool with a popular musician after he called out Trump for using his song without permission.

The White House used the song "American Cars" in its social media posts earlier this week, pairing it with images and video of President Donald Trump's Monday visit to a General Motors facility in Michigan. The song's artist, folk-pop star Noah Kahan, called out Trump for using it without his permission.

"Would never approve of my music being used in support of you or this administration," Kahan wrote in the comments of the White House Instagram post using the song. People reported that songwriter Gabe Simon, who co-wrote "American Cars," criticized the song's use as well. The track was removed from the White House's Instagram post but stayed on the White House TikTok account.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration took to X to call out Kahan. Deputy Assistant to the President Kaelan Dorr wrote, "Symptoms of TDS apparently include having a northern attitude." TDS refers to "Trump derangement syndrome," a label that Trump uses for his critics. Dorr's post was also referencing Kahan's 2022 hit "Northern Attitude."

The White House defended itself by arguing that the track was in Instagram's public library and that anyone could use it, according to HuffPost.

Trump has repeatedly been shut down and slammed after using popular artists' work without their permission. Over the weekend, pop star Katy Perry took to X to say she was "appalled" to see that the Trump administration had "weaponized" her song "Firework" for a video of military violence. Her response led to a MAGA meltdown and upset some Trump officials.

Celine Dion, Kesha, and Tom Petty's estate have also joined the long list of artists who have called out Trump for using their music without permission.

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