Sometimes It's Better to Remain Silent

 

Rudy chickened out of testifying. Rudy claimed he was going to prove Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss stole the GA election. He put on no defense. Here is Rudy when trial started:

“When I testify, you will get the whole story & it will be definitively clear that what I said was true.” pic.twitter.com/semCA8sKrs

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 14, 2023

Rudy Giuliani certainly promised that he was going to tell the whole story and prove he was right; on Monday he was still reiterating the exact same lies that he had no basis for. But at some point, he realized he was completely unsympathetic and needed to shut his damn mouth. Probably when the election workers he defamed explained how he ruined their lives over a lie. Definitely when his lawyers hammered home to him his fat mouth was screwing himself. He was already in thin ice with the court for not turning over information and being a no-show last week. (About the latter, sadly, my first thought was someone needs to do a wellness check...the man is not healthy and it shows.)

So, he did what his sometime boss, Donald Trump, did himself on Monday--he kept his mouth shut. The plaintiffs had been through enough and Giuliani's bank accounts were going to be going through more than enough.

Lies like the ones Giuliani spread aren't fixed with money. They aren't even fixed when thoroughly factually debunked. There are plenty of Trump fans out there who feel like those women must have done something and just needed to be investigated some more. Hell, there's some goofballs who still think Ray Epps is a fed who instigated the riot (Rep. Clay Higgins might even be one of them) even though he's also suing for defamation. Once some people hear a lie they are very fond of, maybe there's a desire to cling to it like a child with a stuffed animal, giving them comfort even if it isn't real. 

Speaking of the FBI, a bad fed got sentenced today: Charles McGonigal. Pretty sure he plead guilty because a court case wouldn't help him any. He was passing information to Oleg Deripaska, a name more people should be familiar with. I'm not sure I know of a reason for the FBI to have anything to do with setting up Donald Trump or his MAGA fans. 

In other weird news from today's Giuliani trial, another Fulton County defendant, Harrison Floyd, decided to be in attendance when he had no business being in a room with the plaintiffs. And in other Fulton Country case news, some of these defendants do not know what a good apology letter looks like--or don't really understand what they had done wrong. 

Or maybe they just decided the less said--the better.