DrLove
Diamond Member
So Rudy was drunk on election night driving everyone nuts and insisting "just say we won!" per a new book by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig. But sadly, Donald was listening - And so ... The Big Lie was born! Btw, Rudy needs help with his drinking. Likely the Kracken Lady as well.
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www.theguardian.com
A drunken Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged Donald Trump to “just say we won” on election night last November, according to a new book, even as key states started to slip away from the president and defeat by Joe Biden drew near.
The former mayor of New York was then acting as Trump’s personal attorney, a role in which he had fueled Trump’s first impeachment and would later lead hapless attempts to prove Trump’s lie that his defeat was the result of electoral fraud.
According to Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker of the Washington Post, authors of the forthcoming I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, Giuliani approached senior Trump aides early on election night at the White House.
“What’s happening in Michigan?” he asked.
The campaign manager, Bill Stepien, chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and senior adviser Jason Miller told him it was too early to know.
“Just say we won,” Giuliani said.
The aides said it was the same in Pennsylvania.
“Just say we won,” Giuliani said.
“Giuliani’s grand plan,” the authors report, “was to just say Trump won, state after state, based on nothing. Stepien, Miller and Meadows thought his argument was both incoherent and irresponsible.”
Meadows reportedly responded, angrily: “We can’t do that. We can’t.”
But Trump did.
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Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to ‘just say we won’ on election night, book says
As key states started to slip away from Trump, Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged former president to lie, according to new book