!! Rudy Giuliani butt-dialed an NBC News reporter — twice — leaving long voicemail messages in which he's heard discussing Joe Biden, business in Bahrain and his need for cash.
"The problem is we need some money," Giuliani says to unidentified man.https://t.co/GTewUkCgSS
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 25, 2019
You knew it was about time for another ‘Roody Coloodi’ (h/t Hoarse Whisperer) Giuliani arc in this soap opera… and what a twist it is, folks!
Asshat buttdials reporter.
Send tweet. https://t.co/ZUsUhSs2bf
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 25, 2019
— Kim Scare-elle ? (@kim) October 25, 2019
"I have yet to receive an intentional or unintentional call back," @richschapiro says when asked what Giuliani has said in response to questions about the butt-dial voicemails. https://t.co/zcY9UEJ0NR pic.twitter.com/jcNioyNDcy
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 25, 2019
Plausible that’s who Rudy was talking to: crank who worked for Frank Gaffney at group denounced by ADL for being a conspiracy theory-mongering hate group, former corporate lobbyist, white, male, and almost 70 years old. https://t.co/4JzQKOQ9XZ
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 26, 2019
I just assume they’ve got everyone in Congress who is suicidally loyal to Trump on tape. https://t.co/7enmKg8Rkj
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 25, 2019
There’s a reason they call him the worlds most expensive free lawyer
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 25, 2019
Anyone who has cared for an aging relative in cognitive decline knows that cell phones become a point of attack for scammers. But usually the aging relative isn't the scammer.
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) October 25, 2019
Looks like we've got a trend story. pic.twitter.com/Wn1Hn1zzcU
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 25, 2019
You mean that guy who put his emergency operations center in the World Trade Center? https://t.co/HhIhnVsrCH
— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) October 25, 2019
Ukranian 1: ANYONE ELSE YOU WANT CALL? HERE IS MY CELL PHONE. YOU CALL INTERPOL?
Giuliani: please please it was .. they were mistakes
Ukranian 2: YOU ARE WORSE CRIMINAL WE EVER MEET, AND WE LIVED IN FLORIDA
FBI Agent On Speaker Phone: guys guys stop shouting it's kinda echo-y
— HumanScumHat (@Popehat) October 25, 2019
ruemara
These people, are idiots. I’m at the Kings game, watching them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
chopper
and he wants to be our latex salesman.
Jerzy Russian
Who among us hasn’t accidentally dialed a voicemail and talked about our crimes for an extended period of time without realizing there was no live person on the other end?
prostratedragon
“Carefully, on Tiptoe Stealing” and “He Remains an Englishman,” The Welsh National Opera
Ruckus
@Jerzy Russian:
You shouldn’t be able to see but my hand is raised.
Mary G
He needed a LOT of money. Do these people just throw around hundreds of thousands all the time?
Mike in NC
Fat Bastard and Rudy Colludy were destined to go down together. Spawned in the sewers of the Big Apple.
smike
Rudz needs cash? Like right now? Sounds like he is PP’s new sexy-time fixer.
I mean, come on. Sounds kinda off-booky to me.
Sanjeevs
So he supposedly butt dialled and the repeated a lot of his bullshit theories.
Hmmm.
Sounds like when the GOP “accidentally” emailed their talking points on impeachment.
jl
Floriduh man shout out at the end of the post. Cool!
jl
I’m pondering on the subtle subtext of the 9 second pause after Giuliani says that he and his boys need some money. And, how long was the pause after Giuliani says it’s a ‘few hundred thousand’?
If anyone has an informed guesstimate, let me know.
Cacti
Even Rudy’s ass is blowing the whistle on him.
jl
After Giuliani gets out of jail, he might need some money for himself. I look forward to the ads of Guiliani hawking CDs of his greatest butt dials. I’ve seen a few of those, usually by rock and roll guitarists I’ve never heard of. And masters of the panpipes, ocarina, kazoo, etc.
smike
@jl:
Sounds like a cheap payoff for anything at this stage of the game. But maybe they just can’t help it. Gotta grub when the grubbing is good.
MattF
Alexandra Petri:
Irresistible. Now back to sleep.
mrmoshpotato
Rudy: It wasn’t me committing all the crimes! It was my ass!
Judge: Rudy, you ARE an ass!
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Aw, was kind’a hoping it was performed in Welsh.
;)
Apropos of nothing save G&S, a cute movie scene.
Redshift
@smike:
Or it’s because he’s trying to hire a defense attorney, and knowing he works with Trump (and is guilty as sin), they want a lot of cash up front.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Really I just wanted “Carefully,” but the WNO version was so lovely. Then I noticed that the “Englishman” was kind of appropriate, or appropriable, too, especially since the company is not, um, English.
The movie scene is very cute. Reminds me I meant to catch it sometime. G&S and also cultural dislocation.
Similarly, or not, I usually prefer the term “pocket call,” however in this case for sure, “butt calls” it is.
Bruce K
That tweet about him being the world’s most expensive free lawyer just gave me an epiphany: Rudy is a great example of the difference between expensive and costly. IE: hiring a highly skilled professional for a job is expensive; hiring some goon who promises to do a great job for free is costly.
Mustang Bobby
“Now we plotting big trouble for Moose and Squirrel.”
Barbara
He did it twice to the same person. It must happen all the time.
Ken
@Mary G: As came out in the divorce proceedings, he and his wife were spending something like two hundred thousand a month. My first reaction was “How!?”, my second reaction was “money laundering”.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
I thought all these dudes were stoopid billionaire rich? How can lack of funds be an issue if that’s true? I think the simplest explanation for all this foreign policy chaos is Trump is teetering on the edge of financial ruin, and he’s doing things based on who pays him. Turkey pays him so lets them invade northern Syria. The Saudis pay him so he sends them the troops they want. Putin and other Russian mobsters are his long time ultimate financial backstop so of course he never crosses them and almost always does what they want.
debbie
@Barbara:
Don’t you think he’d learn not to keep his phone in his rear pocket?
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
God, I love that movie.
Raoul
It is quite likely that this man who sells Giuliani Partners LLC as a global ‘security consulting’ firm doesn’t lock his cell phone screen. So the moron butt dials.
But I did entertain the thought: maybe the Russians are bored. Things aren’t collapsing quite fast enough (collapse makes Donald do dumber and dumber things that help Putin). I’m sure Rudy ‘security consultant’ Giuliani doesn’t just not lock his phone screen, he probably has zippo for security of any sort on his phone.
So, RU spooks took control of his phone and ‘butt dialed’ that NYT reporter twice. They’d know he was talking about juicy stuff since they probably listen in 24/7.
Bwhahahahahah.