Here We Go Again: The Trump-Giuliani Act.

Twenty years ago, these two guys — Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump — hung out in The Big Apple as if they owned the whole place. Well, maybe not the place north of 96th Street in Manhattan, because that was Harlem, and the first time that either of them went into that neighborhood was last week when Trump did a photo op at a deli in Spanish Harlem.

But south of 96th Street, Giuliani and Trump reigned supreme, with one having fashioned a name for himself as ‘America’s Mayor’ and the other putting his name on hi-rise apartments and office buildings all over the place.

Things began to unravel for Giuliani in 2008 when he ran a disastrously bad Presidential campaign. As for Trump, he actually held it together until he made all the wrong moves during the Pandemic and got clobbered in 2020 by an opponent who beat him while allegedly never leaving the basement of his home.

Now these two guys together owe more than $220 million in two defamation cases, an extraordinary sum of money which neither seems to have in their piggy banks, and the amount may be even greater since unsecured creditors in Giuliani’s bankruptcy are demanding that he come up with additional cash.

This past week, lawyers representing what is being referred to as The Committee of Unsecured Creditors sent off a flurry of subpoenas to determine how much money Trump owes Rudy for the latter’s effort to lead the ‘election fraud’ campaign.

Back in February, Giuliani claimed he was owed $2 million for his efforts to rewrite the 2020 campaign results but stated that the money was owed to him not by Trump personally, but by the Trump Presidential campaign.

Now get this: Giuliani has no paperwork to prove that he was owed any money by anyone. He stated, with a straight face, that the promise to pay him was a “word of mouth situation.”

This is a guy — Giuliani — who when he headed the Southern District Federal Attorney’s office put all kinds of big shots in the slammer by proving they engaged in this or that kind of financial scam. And he really believes that a committee of creditors will buy his bullshit about how a multi-million-dollar payday deal was made by two guys just shaking their heads?

So, earlier this week Giuliani goes on one of those stupid, alt-right podcasts and compared the legal cases against him and Trump to be nothing more than how Hitler used the courts to keep things in Nazi Germany under control.

Rudy’s rant went like this: “These trials, we talk about Hitler or Stalin, these are like the trials you would have during Hitler’s era or Stalin’s era. Whether it’s the one we see in New York or the one that I had and constant threats of trying to put you in jail, like they’re doing with President Trump. If you say anything to defend yourself, you could go to jail.”

To silence the opposition, Hitler created something called the ‘people’s court,’ (Volksgerichtshof) consisting of a panel of judges who were active military officers or members of the Nazi Party or both. The proceedings were held in secret, there was no jury and the defendants often didn’t get to testify before they were summarily found guilty of treason and sent off to a concentration camp.

The defendants could be held incommunicado for an indeterminate period of time or could be moved to a forced-labor camp. Before he was killed when an Allied bomb demolished his courtroom during a trial, the head of this penal system, Roland Freisler, bragged that “only” 5% of the more than 1,000 sentenced defendants never left the camps because they were shot.

This, in brief, was the legal system which Rudy believes is now being used in the United States against him and Trump.

But you know what? If you’re a guy who actually believes that bringing a bunch of fake electors to D.C. to overturn a legal election represents a legitimate response to the illegitimate behavior of the Soros/Biden/Obama Deep State, then there’s every good reason to maintain a consistent argument to explain what you did.

After all, Rudy’s the guy who stood up across the street from a porn shop in North Philly and told the assembled media that he knew ‘for a fact’ that the 2020 election results represented a vast, national conspiracy to keep his good buddy Donald Trump from sitting his fat ass behind the real Resolute desk for another four years.

My wife just asked me the following question: What did we all do for entertainment before we had Rudy and Trump?