Thursday 7 June 2018

Giuliani is Trump's attack dog

Ah now I get it! Rudy Giuliani has been employed by Trump to be his attack dog, to make outrageous comments wherever he goes in order to draw the fire away from the president. As long as Giuliani is saying stupid, and in the latest case, mysogenist remarks that grab the headlines, people are supposed to forget that the president of the United States is being investigated for allegedly colluding with Moscow to destroy Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming president. In his latest foray, Giuliani, still in Israel, spoke ill of Stormy Daniels, the porn star who alleges she had sex with Trump way back before he was president. He basically said porn stars who sell their bodies are not entitled to be treated as proper women, certainly never to be treated with respect, and therefore, effectively are worthless as human beings. Now whatever you might think about porn stars and/or women who sell their bodies for sex, there are bound to be a myriad reasons why a woman turns to this way of life. It doesn't make her worthless or evil or criminal or someone who should be spat at in the streets. This is largely what Giuliani was saying. He compared Stormy Daniels with professional women and "women of substance". He then referred to Donald Trump's three wives as women who were all beautiful, classy and of substance. So Giuliani, who has himself had three wives, denigrated Stormy Daniels as someone so low in the pecking order of human beings that anything she might have to say about herself and her alleged "affair" with Trump in a hotel room is of no consequence. So, in other words, a man who is planning to be president of the United States who, allegedly, consorts with a woman of ill repute is fine. But the alleged woman of ill repute who consorts with the man who wants to be president is beneath contempt and not worthy of being compared with any other member of the female species. It is, without question, a pretty unpleasant and certainly harsh position to take. I don't know whether this is Giuliani's real view, alhough I suspect it is, or whether he is doing his master's wishes by going out and about like a rottweiler without a lead and moving the headlines away from Trump's Big Worry - the Moscow collusion story. But, increasingly, the former mayor of New York who was once treated with great respect for the way he handled 9/11, is becoming Trump's court jester, except that his jokes are never amusing.

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