Earlier this week, Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan apartment was raided by Federal Investigators in connection with a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine.
Oh the irony is positively dripping off of this one.
The same Rudy Giuliani who scampered all over Ukraine trying to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden and election interference for his lord and master Donald Trump, the man who alleged criminal actions by others is himself under scrutiny for his own possible criminal activities.
Paul Klugman noted on Twitter, "Does Rudy Giuliani ever think about how easy and pleasant his life could have been? He could have spent the last 20 years giving lucrative speeches about Leadership, consisting of a few nouns, a few verbs, and 9/11."
Looking at the caricature that Rudy Giuliani has become, it's hard to imagine that this same man was held in high regard for his leadership as the mayor of New York City in the aftermath of 9/11.
I happened across some old clips of David Letterman on You Tube including his first show after the attacks. Mixed in with his appreciation for the fire fighters, medics and police officers was praise for Rudy Giuliani.
The man himself appeared for the opening of the first Saturday Night Live after 9/11 where he had the following exchange with Lorne Michaels.
Lorne: "Is it OK for us to be funny?"
Rudy: "Why start now?"
Rudy's rep was set. People started calling him "America's mayor".
It's hard to imagine anyone praising him now.
I suppose it would be easy to blame Rudy's decline on his unfathomable devotion to the cult of Donald Trump.
But Rudy was descending into self parody long before Trump ever came along.
His notoriety under Trump owes as much to his decline before Donald as it does to his further fall from grace with Trump. Basically as Donald Trump scared off any one with the smallest modicum of intelligence, decency and common sense, all that was left was Rudy Giuliani.
Donald Trump relied on Rudy Giuliani because he was the only game in town. And Rudy Giuliani stayed in the public eye and on the periphery of power by making himself the only game in town still willing to echo the worst of Trump's excesses of paranoia and narcissism.
Rudy Giuliani went from "America's mayor" in a time of crisis to an object of mockery, ridicule and scorn.
And now the subject of a criminal investigation.
Michael Cohen, another Donald Trump attorney who knows a thing or three about being raided by the government had this to say about Giuliani's situation.
"We have no idea how expansive this investigation is going to ultimately reveal itself because Rudy's an idiot. And that's the problem. Rudy drinks too much, Rudy behaves in such an erratic manner that who knows what's on those telephones or what's on his computers."
It's such a shame, in a way, for all this to be happening to Rudy Giuliani when life could have been so easy and pleasant for him.
But it isn't. Because, in the words of Michael Cohen, "Rudy's an idiot."
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