This story is a few days old but it was being discussed this morning on MSNBC so it appears to have legs. Here’s an earlier MSNBC discussion which includes the video of Rudy making his comment:
Rudy Giuliani said:
"I would testify, I would do demonstrations, I'd give lectures, I'd give summations, or I'd do what I do best, I'd try the case. I'd love to try the case. I don't know if anybody would have the courage to give me the case, but if you give me the case, I will prosecute it as a racketeering case, which I kind of invented anyway. It was 30 years ago, but let's see if I can still do it."
Heather “Digby” Parton wrote about this on her no frills blog “Digby’s Hullabaloo” where some of her columns not published on Salon go online. Here’s an excerpt.
Apparently, he really believes the impeachment trial is actually the president's prosecution of Joe Biden. Or something.
He is obviously still tight with the president, he was down in Florida over the holidays at all the big events. As far as we know he is still representing him and Trump can certainly have personal lawyers representing him in an impeachment trial. Bill Clinton did. So why not Rudy? He knows the story better than anyone.
Of course, he is actually a co-conspirator but these impeachment trials are their own weird thing. Why not have an accomplice who thinks someone else is on trial act as the lawyer? The Trump and Rudy show would be a ratings smash.
I have nothing to add to what Digby and the talking heads on MSNBC are saying except that if we actually needed any more proof that Rudy was officially residing in la la land here it is, and not the first definition in this description from The Word Detective:
Interestingly, at about the same time, “la-la land” came into use as a slang phrase meaning “a state of dreamy disconnection from reality,” whether due to drunkenness or dementia.
The match of “la-la” to “LA” as an abbreviation for Los Angeles has certainly contributed to the popularity of “La-La Land.” But “la-la” by itself has long been used to mean “to sing a song by substituting ‘la la’ for the words” (as a child or childlike adult might), which may have fed into the “demented” meaning of “la-la land.”
And while Los Angeles wears the “La-La” crown today, there is evidence that it was not the first winner. Linguist Ben Zimmer, writing on the American Dialect Society mailing list two years ago, noted a headline from 1925 (in the Los Angeles Times, no less) in which Paris goes by the name “La-La Land.” Evidently this “La-La” was drawn from the stereotypically French interjection “Ooh-la-la!” (meaning literally “Oh, there, there!”), a phrase popularized by American comedians and cartoons when France was considered the epicenter of all things risque.
...or these from the dictionary.
No wonder Ridiculous Rudy and Demented Donald are best mates, because they are...
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