Sometimes everything just gets all messed up.
On Thursday, Chris Cuomo questioned Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani as to whether he personally asked Ukraine to investigate former VP Joe Biden with regard to pro-Hillary 2016 election interference.
Rudy said he didn’t. Just a brief bit later, he replied that he “of course” did.
Clear?
The interview, as described by The Daily Caller, “devolved into a series of arguments and insults.”
No way — Chris Cuomo engaging in arguments and insults? You mean this guy? (language warning):
Yep, dadgummit — apparently, it’s true.
Here’s the Biden botch:
This was like a heavyweight fight if you watched the entire segment. @ChrisCuomo vs @RudyGiuliani https://t.co/Z6Z1WcqRwJ
— Randal Wallace (@randal_wallace) September 20, 2019
Rudy explained that he asked Ukraine to investigate allegations which “tangentially involved Joe Biden in a massive bribery scheme.”
The yes/no response quickly resulted in the Twitter hashtag #RudyGiulianiMeltdown.
People flipped over it.
Tom Gara of BuzzFeed News had this to say:
“There’s no better expression of the hell that is CNN’s nighttime reality TV lineup than Chris Cuomo noting at the beginning of this clip that his Giuliani interview had been going for 28 MINUTES.”
There’s no better expression of the hell that is CNN’s nighttime reality TV lineup than Chris Cuomo noting at the beginning of this clip that his Giuliani interview had been going for 28 MINUTES https://t.co/XENrZ4ipKZ
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) September 20, 2019
On Friday morning, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski suggested the former mayor of New York might’ve been sloshed:
“You guys were talking about the madness and, sort of, I don’t even know if there’s inebriation here. What is going on?”
Here’s more of the tussle:
Bradley P. Moss — national security lawyer — lamented Rudy was at one point, well, just look:
Believe it or not, Rudy was once a real lawyer. A darn good one too.
You need another term to describe what he is today.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 20, 2019
And Talking Points Memo Editor Josh Marshall just wrote, “HOLY SH** this is wild!”
HOLY SHIT this is wild! pic.twitter.com/zeD9ERtpKx
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 20, 2019
And there was this:
Believe it or not, Rudy was once a real lawyer. A darn good one too.
You need another term to describe what he is today.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 20, 2019
But international affairs specialist Tom Nichols’s reaction took the cake. Or expelled it:
Rudy’s performance on @CNN just now was a level of pants-sh*tting panic rarely seen on national television.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 20, 2019
Rudy’s a fiery guy, and there’s no more inflamed a topic than the terrible 2016 election — the night which, as we all know, factually proved there’s a ceiling for women in politics (here). Don’t Democrats want it investigated ’til the cows come home?
After all — Hillary ran “the best campaign, [she even became] the nominee, and [then had] the election stolen from [her]” (here).
Although, to be fair, not everybody’s on board with that idea:
Or you can run the worst campaign, believe you are running the best, & get your ass beat fair and square. That pesky Constitution thingy keeps getting in the way. My second nominee for the bullshit meter-peg for Sunday. There are others, this one high on list pic.twitter.com/ZkMkMYmMiF
— Mike Wells (@tastytradeninja) May 5, 2019
But that guy’s probably sloshed.
-ALEX
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