Did Trump Have Anyone Around Him Who Wasn’t a Crook?

Poor Rudy Giuliani. Twenty years ago, he was ‘America’s Mayor.’ Twenty years ago, he was given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. Twenty years ago, he was commanding top dollar for appearances on the charity dinner circuit. Twenty years ago, this son of a low-level Mafia enforcer was someone whose political ambitions reached to the New York State Governor’s mansion and beyond.

That was then, this is now. And now Giuliani’s become what Grandpa would call a ‘putz’ (read: dumb schmuck) who was reduced to standing in front of some supermarkets in Queens handing out leaflets for his son’s gubernatorial campaign which ended up with the younger Giuliani losing the GOP primary by more than 20 points.

As for Poppa Giuliani, he’s now just another one of the guys who may go down the tubes for trying to keep Donald Trump in the White House after the 2020 vote. In an advertisement for a new biography on Rudy which the author, Andrew Kirtzman, peddled as a weekend op-ed in The New York Times, Giuliani is quoted as saying that he’ll be remembered for ‘lying for Trump.’

What he’ll really be remembered for was the loony press conference he held during the 2020 campaign in front of a lawn-care company in Philadelphia located across the street from a porn shop that shared a building with a…