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Wack job Rudy Giuliani is getting a medal for his service to Trump




Election conspiracy theorist and disgraced former New York City Mayor Rudy
Giuliani is set to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump.

The award, which is the highest civilian honor bestowed by the U.S.
government, rewards Giuliani for his years of loyal service to Trump, marked by
the promotion of crackpot theories, the failed legal fight to overturn the 2020
election, and dangerous quack science.

“I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the greatest Mayor in the
history of New York City, and an equally great American Patriot, will receive
THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor,” Trump
wrote on his social media account on Monday.

Trump’s announcement comes a day after Giuliani announced that he had been
hospitalized following a car crash in New Hampshire.

Giuliani served as mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, most notably on Sept.
11, 2001. In 2008, Giuliani mounted a disastrous campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination and became a part of Trump’s inner circle. For years,
Giuliani has lurched from one embarrassing incident to the next in a public
spiral with few parallels in American history.




 



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Following Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, Giuliani was part of
Trump’s legal team and pushed ridiculous and easily debunked conspiracy
theories, trying to spin Trump’s loss to Joe Biden as a win.

In the days after that election, Giuliani held an ill-fated media
availability at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Pennsylvania to discuss
challenges to the state’s ballot counting process. As Giuliani spread
falsehoods, it became clear that the Trump campaign had booked the location
thinking it was a Four Seasons hotel, and not a landscaping business.



Giuliani’s conspiracy promotion caught up with him after he was sued by former
Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, whom he falsely
implicated in a scheme to steal votes from Trump. Ultimately, Giuliani was
ordered to pay the women nearly $150 million for defaming them.

He was also disbarred in New York and Washington, D.C., for his disgraceful
promotion of election lies.

Giuliani was also part of a pro-Trump operation after the 2016 election,
attempting to push Ukraine-related conspiracy theories. The idea was to cast
aspersions on the investigation into Russia’s decision to aid Trump in that
election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.




 



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That conspiracy theory formed the foundation of Trump’s first impeachment
after he used the office of the presidency to pressure Ukraine and enhance his
political power.

Giuliani also promoted conspiracies about the COVID-19 virus at the height of
the pandemic, including the promotion of phony medical remedies for the virus
on his podcast.

As recently as last Christmas, Giuliani was using his infamy to promote his
own personal brand of coffee in a series of cringeworthy internet videos.

Giuliani has demonstrated that, like Trump, he is a die-hard conspiracy
theorist. He has invoked those conspiracies to defend Trump, throwing away
whatever last vestiges he had of credibility following his time as mayor and a
significantly influential figure within the Republican Party.

In receiving the Medal of Freedom, Giuliani joins racist misogynist Rush
Limbaugh, who died in 2021, as another Trump sycophant who received an award
for their service providing pro-Trump propaganda.

Giuliani has gone from “America’s Mayor” to a disgraced Trump-era punchline,
and now he’s getting a prize for it all.



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