US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2775

On October 22 2020 05:29 EnDeR_ wrote:


Wait, did giuliani think the girl was 15? I did not get that from the guardian article.

It's still very creepy that a 70 something year old is hitting on someone who looks like a teenager anyway.

Posing as a conservative journalist in the mold of Tomi Lahren—albeit with a strong eastern European accent—Tutar sits down with Giuliani in a Manhattan hotel suite for an “interview” in which she mostly flatters him into creepily flirting with her. “I’ll relax you, you want me to ask you a question?” Giuliani says as she giggles in response. After blaming China for the coronavirus, he agrees to “eat a bat” with his interviewer, who repeatedly touches his knee to egg him on.

Baron Cohen first interrupts the interview dressed as a sound engineer with a large boom mic, but leaves before it’s over. At that point, Tutar offers to “have a drink in the bedroom” with Giuliani, who happily obliges.

On what appear to be hidden cameras, we see Giuliani remove her microphone and ask for her phone number and address as he sits down on the bed. He starts patting her backside as she removes the microphone from his pants. Giuliani then lies down on the bed and starts sticking his hands down his pants in a seemingly suggestive manner.

But before anything more can happen, Borat bursts into the room and shouts, “Put down your chram!”—his preferred word for penis. “She’s 15! She’s too old for you!”

The startled Giuliani, who had no reason to believe his interviewer was underage, sits up abruptly and gets out of there as fast as he can. “Rudy, Trump will be disappoint! You are leaving hotel without golden shower!” Borat yells after him.

After that, the film concludes with one more big and hilarious reveal that we won’t be spoiling here.

On October 22 2020 03:31 Shingi11 wrote:
Does anyone else think Trump is acting strange. All his rally have just been so odd. Like instead of the 2016 type rallies where he big and bombastic we are getting wining and complaining Trump. Like his last couple have been he is leaving if Biden wins and nobody likes him. Like I thought his whole thing was that he was this big alpha man.

On October 22 2020 10:35 Doodsmack wrote:
Fox now reporting that the Hunter biden laptop is part of a money laundering investigation by the FBI. Now that is interesting. Wonder who the "big guy" is?

On October 22 2020 11:04 Doodsmack wrote:
I would hope that the agency has left behind the type of far fetched theories it indulged in with the collusion investigation. Money laundering is much more run of the mill than "collusion" and "national security" also.

“You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you,” the emails said. “Change your party affiliation to Republican to let us know you received our message and will comply. We will know which candidate you voted for. I would take this seriously if I were you.”

The officials also said Iran and Russia had obtained voter registration data, though such data is considered easily, publicly accessible. Tehran used the information to send out the spoofed emails, which were sent to voters in states including Pennsylvania and Florida.

Ratcliffe said the spoofed emails were intended to hurt Trump, though he did not elaborate on how. An intelligence assessment released in August said: “Iran seeks to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, President Trump, and to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections. Iran’s efforts along these lines probably will focus on online influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S. content.”

Trump, speaking at a rally in North Carolina, made no reference to the press conference but repeated a familiar campaign assertion that Iran is opposed to his reelection. He promised that if he wins another term he will swiftly reach a new accord with Iran over its nuclear program.

“Iran doesn’t want to let me win. China doesn’t want to let me win,” Trump said. “The first call I’ll get after we win, the first call I’ll get will be from Iran saying let’s make a deal.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — US government: Russia, Iran have obtained some voter registration data, aiming to interfere in election.

On October 22 2020 05:43 Nevuk wrote:

Ah, he didn't. The Guardian really didn't make that clear, as she is apparently continually referred to as being 15 in the movie.

The Daily Beast's review is much more responsible :

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-rudy-giuliani-got-caught-red-handed-with-borats-daughter?via=twitter_page

On October 22 2020 13:07 Nevuk wrote:
Maddow's not amplifying any disinfo in the first one, just questioning Ratcliffe's statement about motives, as it clashes with the known facts (there definitely could be more that is held back), and he was barely able to be confirmed due to questions of his being partisan.

The second one, well, it's what we knew at the time. Actual journalists (of which Maddow is not: she's the tv equivalent of an op-ed writer, basically, same as Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity) will correct the story when they get new info. Do we need to go drag everyone who hasn't retracted the Seth Rich story through the mud again?