Rudy Giuliani's Wild Week
A wild week for me entails getting drinks with friends or doing something after work multiple times in a work week. In light of recent events over the last several days, it's safe to say that Rudy Giuliani—once "America's Mayor," now better known as Donald Trump's former, crooked lawyer and an alleged sexual predator and election conspiracist—cannot relate. This week, Giuliani's latest legal troubles, this time stemming from charges in Arizona that he conspired to steal the 2020 election for Trump, seemingly reached their boiling point. From being served an indictment by the Arizona attorney general at his birthday party in Florida, to keeping his mic on while using the bathroom during a virtual arraignment, and also somehow deeming this the right time to launch a coffee brand, it's hard to know where to start unpacking #LifeLately for Mr. Giuliani. I guess I'll go with chronologically! Let's rewind to the events of Friday night. At his birthday bash, Giuliani was dancing the night away and posting about it in real-time—including, at one point, seemingly mocking Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for not being able to serve him papers. Alongside a selfie of him and a group of blonde women, ostensibly partying it up, he wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “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.” Within minutes, Mayes' Twitter account quote-tweeted Giuliani's post, writing: “The final defendant was served moments ago. Nobody is above the law." The final defendant was served moments ago. @RudyGiuliani nobody is above the law. https://t.co/rer9hi8cTf — AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes (@AZAGMayes) May 18, 2024 Mayes' office confirmed to Rolling Stone that they were able to locate and serve Giuliani through his wildly unsubtle digital footprint: “Our agents traveled to Florida [on Friday]. We knew he was there because of his nightly live video streams at his residence," Richie Taylor, Mayes' communications director, told the outlet in a statement. According to Taylor, Giuliani was served at a friend's house "as he left his birthday party." Giuliani's spokesperson, Ted Goodman, told Rolling Stone that Giuliani "was unfazed and enjoyed an incredible evening with hundreds of people, from all walks of life, who love and respect him for his contributions to society.” OK! Giuliani faces conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges in Arizona, and has pleaded not guilty on all charges. This, of course, is on top of about a gazillion other legal issues on his plate, which include a $148 million verdict in Georgia for defaming election workers in that state from last December, and, of course, being sued for alleged sexual harassment and exploitation by his former employee last year. He also faces charges of making false statements and soliciting false testimony in Georgia, as part of his alleged role in trying to overturn the election results in that state for Trump, as well. Oh my. Rudy Giuliani forgot to turn off his zoom mic when he went to go pee during his arraignment https://t.co/lON9InoAIV — Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 21, 2024 And the humiliations have only piled on for Giuliani since Friday. At a virtual arraignment on Tuesday for the charges he faces in Arizona, Giuliani pissed new life into the word "live stream" when he forgot to turn his microphone off while in the bathroom and, in a viral clip circulating on social media, can be heard urinating. "Is that me?" he asks. It was, in fact, him. This sounds pretty par for the course for a man famous for butt-dialing reporters, but I am still somehow—unlike Giuliani's mic—mute! In…