Section: AlterNet (USA)
Rudy Giuliani calls NSFW Borat hotel room scene a ‘hit job’ in retaliation for recent Biden smear
Former LifeLock spokesperson Rudy Giuliani is defending his unwitting cameo in the “Borat” sequel as a “hit job” in retaliation for his recent smears on Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. In the controversial appearance, the man once called “America’s Mayor” appears to be touching himself...
Republicans know they face a sweeping defeat in two weeks. But their latest pseudo-scandal may have 2022 in mind
One of the many nerve-wracking questions Americans facing with the 2020 presidential election is whether all the bizarre conspiracy theories that have sprung up in the last few years will outlast the Trump administration. Are we in for a prolonged period of this level of lunacy in our politics?Maybe. There are a bunch of QAnon-curious Republican...
Here’s the simple truth about the fake Hunter Biden scandal Team Trump wishes was a ‘smoking gun’
Donald Trump is trying hard to recreate the perfect storm that landed him in the White House in 2016 despite being the most unpopular candidate in the modern polling era. That year, the Clinton campaign’s hacked emails were dribbled out over the final six weeks of the race. There wasn’t much to them, but internal campaign...
John Bolton heeded this warning about Russian-manipulated Rudy Giuliani when the White House ignored it
When Former National Security Adviser John Bolton received a warning about President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani due to his suspected ties to Russian operatives, he wasted no time heeding the warning and urged his staff to steer clear of having any involvement or interactions with The Daily Beast compiled a report based...
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter comes out against her father and Trump in brutal essay
Caroline Rose Giuliani, the daughter of former LifeLock spokesperson and Trump personal Rudy Giuliani, called for Americans to vote for the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket in a scathing rebuke of the “toxic” Republican administration. “My father is Rudy Giuliani,” Giuliani wrote in an essay published Thursday in Vanity...
Russia used Trump’s personal lawyer to feed misinformation to the president — and the White House knew
The White House was warned that Russian intelligence was seeking to exploit his personal attorney according to a bombshell new report in The Washington Post.”U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian...
How Democrats guaranteed Rudy Giuliani’s ‘October surprise’ would backfire spectacularly
The case of Rudy Giuliani will go down as one of the more perplexing mysteries of our time. Even though the man was a terrible mayor of New York City, he was likely going to be remembered fondly as the guy who actually stepped up and did his job on 9/11. But instead of spending his retirement years sipping martinis and resting on that particular...
Top Republicans call to punish social media sites for limiting reach of dubious Biden exposé
Top Republicans are lashing out at Facebook and Twitter — and even calling for legal retaliation against the social media platforms — after the two companies decided to limit the spread of a dubious New York Post story about the Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden.The Post article suggested Biden and his son behaved...
‘I’m not happy’: Trump won’t commit to keeping Barr as attorney general if he’s reelected
Attorney General William Barr has been so aggressive in his support of President Donald Trump that many pundits have described him as Trump’s “fixer” — a word that was often used to describe Michael Cohen when he was still working for the Trump Organization and serving as Trump’s personal attorney. But this week, Trump has...
Experts dismiss ‘garbage’ Hunter Biden exposé in NY Post: ‘Seems like a complete fabrication’
The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post published a series of stories on Tuesday surrounding alleged emails between Hunter Biden and officials connected with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which the outlet obtained from a source who met multiple times over the last year with an individual whom the U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned as...
