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Rudy Giuliani’s descent into parody continued this weekend as he walked out of his own birthday party Friday night and into the arms of a process server he’d been ducking for weeks.
Giuliani played a central role in the fake electors scheme, leaning on then Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers to reconvene the legislature to steal the state’s eleven electoral votes for Trump and holding a “hearing” at a hotel in Phoenix on November 30, 2020 at which he claimed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the state had cast ballots. The former president’s pro bono attorney was the last of the 18 defendants to be served in the election interference case brought by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, and he had been refusing to accept service for weeks.
In typical Rudy fashion, he had taunted the prosecution just hours before that they would never catch him.
““If Arizona authorities can’t find me by tomorrow morning: 1. They must dismiss the indictment; 2. They must concede they can’t count votes,” he wrote in a since-deleted post on X.
What do those words even mean?
Whatever Rudy thought he was saying, the die was already cast, with process servers awaiting his exit from an 80th birthday bash in Palm Beach, Florida so they could finally hand him his papers.
“The final defendant has been served,” AG Mayes posted that evening, tagging Giuliani to note that “no one is above the law.”
Perhaps smarting from the charge that he’d evaded process like a common criminal, Giuliani tweeted that he’d invited the servers to his party and then “accepted service like a gentleman.”
“I had just found out they were looking for me 24 hours before a surprise party was given to me by 200 Democrats and Republicans. I told them where I would be and I accepted service like a gentleman!” he bleated. “I look forward to the day when the court systems are held accountable for abusing their powers”
Giuliani’s spokesman Ted Goodman told news outlets that his boss remained “unfazed by the decision to try and embarrass him during his 80th birthday party. He enjoyed an incredible evening with hundreds of people who love him—from all walks of life — and we look forward to full vindication soon.”
And perhaps that’s true … if only by comparison. Giuliani is also under indictment in Georgia; he’s been suspended from the practice of law in New York and DC; he owes $148 million to Atlanta poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for defaming them in 2020 and 2021; he’s being sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, as well as his former employee Noelle Dunphy and Hunter Biden; he just lost his radio gig at WABC in New York; and he’s in bankruptcy with a judge who is already thoroughly pissed off at him and won’t let him spend money on his legal defense. So maybe he really is unfazed by one more disaster. Add it to the pile, man!
In the meantime, Rudy’s got business to attend to.
“By supporting Rudy Coffee, you’re not just treating yourself to exceptional coffee. You’re also supporting our cause,” he vamps.
La cosa nostra, if you will.
“The cause of truth, justice, and American democracy.”
Oh, sorry, my mistake.
Hustle and grind them beans, Mr. Mayor. Like a gentleman.
Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast.
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