Rudy Giuliani claims Trump stiffed him out of $2M in wages :

Newsweek - Bankrupt Rudy Giuliani Sought Trump Payment 'Any Number of Times'

05 July 2024

Rudy Giuliani has sought a $2 million payment from Donald Trump "any number of times," the former New York mayor told a bankruptcy deposition. 

 

Giuliani lost a $148 million lawsuit and has been disbarred as a lawyer as a result of his work for Trump, yet has never been paid for his services. 

 

He told the deposition that the former president's campaign officers have ignored the numerous invoices he has sent and have only ever paid his expenses. ...

 

When asked if he was on a salary at that time, Giuliani replied: "I was supposed to. I got paid expenses, but I never got a salary." ...

 

Giuliani said that he had never calculated how much Trump owes him, but that total figure was "about $2 million."

 

"He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon"   😏

He won't get anything else out of Trump. I do recall reading that Trump gave him a few hundred thousand towards lawyers bills a while ago, but it either came from his campaign or the RNC (I can't recall which) - definitely not from Trump personally. Hell, Rudy wasn't even paid for the work he did trying to overturn the election on Trump's behalf.

Nope, he can kiss that goodbye, he won't get anything more from the orange buffoon.

This probably isn't too far removed from what actually happened 😀

The UK now: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rw0yp1x19o 

In other words, whatever it means to get in.

"Tories must embrace Farage, says ex-minister"

freitasm: The UK now: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rw0yp1x19o

In other words, whatever it means to get in.

"Tories must embrace Farage, says ex-minister"

That would mark the end of the Conservative party.

Sideface:

 

Rudy Giuliani 

 

Speaking of which...

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/rudy-giuliani-mike-lindell-rcna160197

Giuliani’s public free fall, from mayor of New York City to podcaster for a conspiratorial pillow-pusher, shows no end in sight.  

Funny, I thought Lindell had no money whatsoever? How can he afford to pay Rudy anything? Unless it's coming out of Bannon's bank account, I guess.

This is the condensed introduction to an interesting article:

AlterNet - Opinion - How authoritarian leaders get away with it

07 July 2024

Experimental psychologist Bob Altemeyer spent his entire career studying authoritarians, both the leaders and the followers. In 1998, he wrote:

“Wanna-be tyrants in a democracy are just comical figures on soapboxes when they have no following. So the real threat lay coiled in parts of the population itself - ready someday to catapult the next Hitler to power with their votes.”

Research yields this list of conclusions about authoritarian followers:

•     They are highly ethnocentric, highly inclined to see the world as their in-group versus everyone else.
•     They are highly fearful of a dangerous world. 
•     They are highly self-righteous. 
•     They are aggressive. 
•     Their beliefs are a mass of contradictions. 
•     They reason poorly. 
•     They are highly dogmatic. 
•     They are very dependent on social reinforcement of their beliefs.
•     They vastly overestimate the extent to which other people agree with them. 
•     They are easily duped by manipulators. 
•     They are largely blind to themselves.

Bob could certainly see into the future.😬

AlterNet - 'Yacht trip to Russia': Senators publish list of Clarence Thomas’ gifts from benefactors 

09 July 2024

 

Two Senate Democrats have published a list of roughly three dozen lavish gifts Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas received from right-wing billionaires during his time on the Court.  ...

 

The list describes gifts from far-right real estate magnate Harlan Crow ...

 

The gifts from Crow date back to 2003, and list excursions like "Yacht trip to Russia and the Baltics" and "Helicopter to Yusipov Palace, St. Petersburg."

 

Out of the roughly two dozen gifts Crow gave to Thomas, four are private school tuition payments for his grand-nephew. Many of Crow's other gifts were private jet flights and yacht cruises ...

 

Last month, anti-corruption watchdog group Fix the Court totaled Thomas' gifts and found that the conservative jurist had received approximately $4 million in gifts dating back to 2004 – far more than any other justice on the Supreme Court. And of the 193 gifts Thomas received, he only listed 27 on his required financial disclosure reports.

 

EDIT:

Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland from Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden   [link]

Note Appendix B: 

Likely Undisclosed Gifts and Income from Harlan Crow and Affiliated Companies
Likely Undisclosed Gifts and Income from Other Donors

"Conservatives" are only conservatives when it comes to other people's rights.

They will do anything to keep theirs.