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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:52 AM May 2018

Morning Jerk: 'He was drinking too much' (9/11 Rudy)

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has been dropping hints why Rudy Giuliani was passed over for a role in the Trump administration, but he finally revealed the president’s concerns.

The “Morning Joe” host has been saying that President Donald Trump privately expressed concerns that Giuliani had “lost it,” and fell asleep in meetings, but he told viewers the real reason Tuesday with co-host Mika Brzezinski’s prodding.

“He was drinking too much,” Scarborough said.

The president apparently overcame his initial concerns about the former New York City mayor and asked him to join his legal team against the special probe, but Trump is reportedly already tired of Giuliani’s antics on TV.

(snip)

Brzezinski reminded her co-host and fiancé that Trump’s associates had raised other concerns during private conversations during the transition period.

“That he was falling asleep five minutes into meetings,” Scarborough added. “I can mention this: Everybody around Donald Trump said he was drinking too much — Donald Trump suggested as much — that was two years ago. And the fact that Donald Trump brought this guy in two years later despite his own reservations about him, almost two years ago, that’s not any, it’s not 3-D chess. That’s not even checkers, that’s a monkey throwing poo against the wall, and it doesn’t usually turn out well.”

(end snip)

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/drinking-much-morning-joe-reveals-trump-didnt-want-rudy-join-administration/#.WvF95O5zUQE.twitter

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PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
1. We haven't heard much about Giuliani's divorce
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:55 AM
May 2018

I wonder why Judy left him?

Is it because of his drinking?

Is it because of his dementia?

Or is it because Giuliani is simply an asshole?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Blues Heron

(5,926 posts)
2. Rudie Can't Fail
Tue May 8, 2018, 07:03 AM
May 2018

reminds me of the old Clash song.....

"Rudie Can't Fail"
Strummer/Jones


How you get a rude and a reckless?
Don't you be so crude and feckless
You been drinking brew for breakfast
Rudie can't fail

First you must cure your temper
Then you find a job in a paper
You need someone for a savior
Oh, Rudie can't fail

mnmoderatedem

(3,722 posts)
4. Rudy has been more and more reckless and seemingly desperate
Tue May 8, 2018, 07:29 AM
May 2018

strongly suggesting he, like Nunes, who's behaving in a similar manner, has a lot to hide and a lot to lose.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. I'm sure Ghouliani has amped up his republican family values
Tue May 8, 2018, 08:11 AM
May 2018

and is fully prepared to lie about all of this.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
8. So, he was drinking too much for a role in the Trump White House
Tue May 8, 2018, 08:35 AM
May 2018

but, he was okay for Trump to hire on as a new member of his legal defense team?

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