Rudy Giuliani would like you all to relax. He’s fine. He’s just sailing along. And, despite the evidence of your own senses, he is not at all three sandwiches short of a picnic. From New York:



When reached for comment, Giuliani replied: “Garbage your publication cannot be counted on to report fairly on this salacious stupidity … I am a high functioning human being able to outwork people half my age. Compared to Biden and Pelosi, I’m a phenom.”



And I am the Tsar of all the Russias.



Giuliani is very close to centerstage in the Ukraine shakedown at the moment. His two Volga Bagmen are very close to turning on him. Lev Parnas, for one, now claims to have tapes and, through Giuliani, Parnas has managed to rope in Rep. Devin Nunes, the onetime White House lawn ornament. And the place the Ukraine scam has in the general scheme of Russian ratfcking has become even more clear, both in connection with the 2016 election and, more frighteningly, the 2020 election as well. Questions are now rising again about the weird trip that eight Republican senators took to Moscow on Independence Day in 2018. One of them, Ron (Shreds of Freedom) Johnson of Wisconsin, is knee-deep in the Ukraine ratfcking-industrial complex.

Remember when George H. W. Bush got to lie his way out of his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal by saying he’d been "out of the loop"? It appears that almost nobody was out of the loop in this one. This was the biggest damn loop in the history of loops. I think there’s a tape of Aaron Burr shaking down a Ukrainian in there somewhere.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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