'Cyber Expert' Rudy Giuliani Thinks Someone Has 'Invaded' His Tweet

From Esquire

Rudy Giuliani's nosedive from his tenuous perch as "America's Mayor" to Guy Who Gets Raucously Booed at Yankee Games has an appropriate sidecar: his transformation from tough-on-crime prosecutor-type to professional grifter. After his failed bid for the presidency, which Joe Biden neatly summed up in a single caustic barb, Giuliani has run a security firm that has continued working on behalf of foreign governments even as the man himself has embraced the job of loudmouthed pro-bono attorney to the President of the United States. That kind of conflict scarcely raises an eyebrow in The Trump Era, and neither does the fact that Giuliani's firm once claimed to specialize in cybersecurity.

Yes, this 74-year-old man is another viejo wandering about our politics talking about The Cyber who would be comprehensively defeated by a request to set up two-factor authentication. (Lindsey Graham, for another example, once proudly reported he'd never sent an email. He serves on the Senate Armed Services committee, which concerns itself with our national defense.) Giuliani showcased more of his tech savvy Tuesday with a tweet accusing Twitter of sabotaging his tweet:

Of all the claims of conservative victimhood on social media, this might be the most pathetic. Giuliani is saying the tweet to which the above is replying was sabotaged by a link he himself inserted by failing to put a space between each period and the next sentence. (That is not really a technological issue, more of a personal one.) Here's that tweet:

It is breathtakingly obvious that someone bought the domain Giuliani mistakenly linked to and outfitted it with an anti-Trump message. But not to Rudy Giuliani, Cyber Expert, whom President Donald Trump initially tapped to head up his cybersecurity initiatives. We can safely assume that Giuliani's complete incompetence as a presidential lawyer-in which capacity he can routinely be found admitting the president did possibly incriminating things the president long denied doing-extended to his service as the Cyber Czar. I mean, he didn't even think to just delete the tweet.

It's another sign that while we rightly focus on the brazen corruption and stunning incompetence and vicious cruelty of this administration and its hangers-on, we don't focus enough on the relentless lack of professionalism. The idea that public servants should behave as if they are in a professional setting has gone completely out the window, replaced by the work culture Trump has imported from the shady privately held confines of the Trump Organization.

Want more proof? Giuliani has more:

This was the response, from the United States president's attorney, to Tuesday night's news that the president's former national security adviser cooperated 19 times with federal law enforcement as part of an agreement after he pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian government officials. It follows on former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's admissions about "The Moscow Project" last week-also part of his guilty pleas-which Giuliani responded to by screaming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's tactics were "un-American." The text above, though, would be particularly worrying to any lawyer's client that did not think ginning up political outrage was his best defense. (In the past, Giuliani has gone on TV to say "truth isn't truth" in defense of the president.) It's a legitimate question whether Giuliani was able to call on all his faculties here, and it's not the first time.

But it may not be that all this is bumming Rudy out. That implies he'll be crushed if Trump is undone by the various investigations into his conduct before and after the 2016 election. Maybe he will be, but like any lawyer, Giuliani will not have forgotten that his fate is not directly tied to his client's. Say what you will about his tactics, but the former New York mayor is making money hand-over-fist in his new role as presidential-lawyer-cum-international-security-guard-for-hire.

Just ask his estranged wife, Judith, who wants a divorce on the basis Rudy is cheating on her with another woman-a somewhat fitting conclusion to a romance that began with Giuliani stepping out on his second wife with Judith. (Giuliani's first marriage was annulled on the basis that his then-wife, Regina Peruggi, was his second cousin.) According to Page Six, Giuliani is pleading poverty to avoid paying up as part of the divorce. But Judith's lawyers have pointed out that Giuliani raked in $9.5 million last year, and has got to work spending it: he dished out just short of $900,000 in five months this year, including $12,000 on cigars and $7,000 on fountain pens. He's spent $286,000 on his alleged mistress.

But he doesn't have a dime for Judith! What a surprise, considering how they met. Grifter is as grifter does, my mama always said.

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