Rudy is not Schumi. “My Schumacher never sweats,” said Luciano Benetton when the ace of Formula 1 was not yet at the triumphs of Ferrari. As the opponents came out washed after a grand prix, Michael looked like he had come out of the dryer. Rudy Giuliani it’s not Schumi: immobile during yesterday’s press conference at the Republican Party headquarters in Washington, a trickle of sweat runs down the cheek of the former New York mayor, who has become Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and for two weeks in charge of his team appeals. And what is worse is that the trickle is black: “Rudy Giuliani literally melting down” is the title of the viral video on YouTube. “Giuliani is literally melting away.” While Giuliani speaks, the voice of someone from the staff is inserted due to a technical error in the streaming, certifying the suspicion: “Rudy’s paint slips on his face”.
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From melting down of the Twin Towers to that of the dyeing of the sideburns, from the pillars dissolved in the hell of Ground Zero to the black hole of American democracy. And of course the comparison sounds offensive, exaggerated, out of place. An impossible leap, as well as the parable of a 9/11 hero, the policeman mayor no talk and badge: born in Brooklyn, his father Angelo, manager of clandestine gambling dens, his grandparents Rodolfo and Evangelina originally from Marliana, province of Potenza, two degrees, tough and likeable, from 83 “Iron Attorney” (appointed by Ronald Reagan) in the South District of New York, Giuliani also collaborates with Falcone and Borsellino in mafia investigations, in 1993 he was elected mayor of the Big Apple, mister “zero tolerance” against crime (and against the tumor that will then force him to leave the race for the Senate ). The fist and the caress: after 9/11, Rudy is on the front line to restart the wounded city, and Time elects him “man of the year”. It could be the springboard for a great political career, which however will never take off, ending with the defeat in the 2008 Republican primary.
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Born in 1944, Giuliani marries Donald Trump’s cause in 2016. In 2018 he became one of the president’s personal lawyers. The following year, his role as a dark prince emerges in the maze of the US-Ukraine affair, the contacts and the pressure to stain Joe Biden’s record. But Ukraine is far away, and Rudy moves behind the scenes, without an official assignment, without having to worry too much about what he says and how he dyes himself. 2020 is a whole other story: Rudy puts his face, words and denials into it (including the one that he would have asked The Donald $ 20,000 a day as compensation). He says and contradicts himself: in Pennsylvania he publicly shouts that the one against his boss is “clearly an electoral fraud”, only to admit before a state magistrate that “it is not a case of fraud at all.” In the silence of a large part of the Republican party, sweating and snorting, with the mobile grin of his teeth, Rudy Giuliani speaks in the spotlight. He indulges in cinematic comparisons, like at yesterday’s press conference, trying Joe Pesci’s accent in “My cousin Vincenzo”, “one of my favorite actors because he comes from Brooklyn like me.” Giuliani acting Pesci, with the dye running, is a film beyond the film, beyond reality: the defense lawyer who asks the visually impaired woman key tests in a murder trial “How many are these?” showing the fingers of the hand. She who is wrong. Here, according to Giuliani, “these people” (the observers at the Philadelphia polls) were much farther from the ballot papers than “my cousin Vicenzo from the witness of the murder”. Here, this is the zero level of Rudy’s defense. And when the black trickle on his cheek forces him to leave the scene, constantly touching his forehead, the lawyer who replaces him is no less: Sidney Powell claims to have identified “interference in the American elections with a massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba and probably China ”. No rehearsal, curtain down. And next time, greater control over the colors, rather than the sources.
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