Explain this version of Rudy Giuliani to any adult in America in October of 2001, just to see the reaction. The one-time NYC mayor, leading GOP presidential candidate, and US Attorney has had a really bad 48 hours. First being linked as a co-conspirator in the latest Trump indictments, and now this:
WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC SEXUAL COMMENTS & ANTISEMITISM CONTENT AHEAD
In June, the former New York mayor and lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the case to strike portions of Dunphy’s lawsuit and sanction her and her lawyer. He said allegations about romantic affairs, discriminatory remarks, and his “supposed sexual proclivities” regarding Dunphy were false and meant to “portray Mr. Giuliani as a sexual deviant.”
But the transcripts, which were certified by a court-reporting agency, back up portions of Dunphy’s account. In conversations with her, Giuliani admitted to an affair with alleged former mistress Maria Ryan, used a discriminatory slur for gay people, insulted Jews, and had a number of horny interactions.
“Come here, big tits. Come here, big tits. Your tits belong to me. Give them to me (indiscernible). I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. These are my tits,” Giuliani told Dunphy on March 12, 2019, according to one transcript filed as a court exhibit.
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Dunphy’s explosive lawsuit alleged that Giuliani frequently forced her to perform oral sex and sexually abused her in other ways while dangling job offers that never materialized.
She also alleged Giuliani sought her help in getting people to pay millions of dollars to purchase pardons from then-President Trump and, while facing a federal criminal investigation, instructed her not to speak with the FBI.
In Tuesday’s filings, Kelton stands by the allegations. He said that multiple recordings exist to back them up.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Ms. Dunphy is in possession of multiple additional recordings that prove her allegations about these matters, but submits only a handful of straightforward examples in the interest of efficiency and economy,” Kelton wrote in a motion.
Some transcripts appear to show Giuliani making highly sexually charged remarks to Dunphy.
“I want to own you, officially,” Giuliani told Dunphy according to a March 4, 2019 transcript, punctuated by her affirmative response. “Legally, with a document.”
In a transcript dated August 18, 2019, Giuliani revealed sapiosexual feelings — which he said was a departure from his past sexual preferences.
“I can’t think about you or I get hard,” Giuliani told Dunphy, according to the transcript. “Even — even if I think about how smart you are, I’ll get hard. I’d never think about a girl being smart. If you told me a girl was smart, I would often think she’s not attractive.”
In Giuliani’s June filing, he denied having an affair with Ryan, a woman who his ex-wife identified as his mistress during divorce proceedings in 2018. But in a transcript of an apparent December 2019 conversation with Dunphy, Giuliani spoke wistfully of his relationship with Ryan. Giuliani appeared puzzled by the friendship he developed with her husband, who he identified as a right-wing ex-Marine who is “a very talented painter” but “a little bit lazy.”
“This is the weirdest fucking thing. We’ve had this like, affair for two years and I’m friendly with her husband,” Giuliani told Dunphy, according to the transcript. “Can’t even figure it out.”
Giuliani spent a couple of Thanksgivings with them, he said in the conversation. Ryan couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
“She has this tremendous connection to her family, and she loves me. But she can’t leave her family, including her husband,” he said, according to the transcript. “So, I had Thanksgiving dinner with them again. Bob made Thanksgiving dinner for me.”
Giuliani appeared to make bizarre remarks about well-known figures. In one recording, he claimed then-presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg was gay. Bloomberg has been in a relationship with a woman for more than 20 years.
And in a conversation where he struggled to identify a politically conservative actor, he also claimed Matt Damon was gay and used a slur.
“Matt Damon is a f–. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo,” he said according to one transcript. Damon has been married to his current wife for nearly 20 years.
According to other transcripts, Giuliani claimed Jewish men have small penises compared to Italians (Giuliani is Italian) and complained about Jewish religious holidays. He was particularly irked about Passover, a holiday where Jews celebrate the exodus from slavery in Egypt as recounted in the Torah.
“Jews. They want to go through that freaking Passover all the time. Man, oh, man. Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago,” Giuliani said, according to an April 1, 2019 transcript. “Okay, the Red Sea parted. Big deal. Not the first time that happened.”
This all makes me seriously wonder about Rudy!’s mental health. It’s one thing to be a narcissist and a bigot and generally an asshole. But I kind of wonder if some of what we’re reading about here is him interacting with a non-standard version of reality.Report
That.
Prime Directive Zero for all lawyers is don’t do anything which loses you your law license.
I’m not sure how to reconcile that with “we’re going to overthrow the gov by conspiracy theories and it will be legal”.Report
The number of sheer miscreants among my gender always continues to dismay and surprise.Report
On the one hand, a lot of people say awful things in private.
OTOH … frickin’ yikes.Report