I thought the Pee Tape was bad, but I’ve now found something far worse. The allegations against Rudy Giuliani, detailed in a 70-page criminal complaint, are so ghastly and perverse that I can’t really discuss them in detail. My parents may be in their 90’s, but they still read this blog and I don’t want to subject them to the former New York mayor’s filth.
He’s accused by a former employee named Noelle Dunphy of “rape, sexual harassment, abuse of power, wage theft, and other misconduct” like conspiring with President Trump to sell pardons for $2 million a pop. The short, clean version of this story is that he hired a woman who was going through some difficulties after an abusive relationship and offered her free legal services and a million dollar annual salary. He wound up paying her only $12,000 over two years. During that time, according to her allegations, he treated her as a sex slave. To paint a more accurate picture, the complaint says he constantly gobbled Viagra pills and was drunk morning, noon, and night. He was prone to nearly incoherent antisemitic and racist rants, and he and Trump had a plan to call the 2020 election “rigged” a full year before voters went to the polls.
Jezebel.com notes that she has tape recordings and emails to corroborate many of her allegations: “the recordings Dunphy made and the 23,000 emails she preserved may present a problem for [Giuliani], though. Her allegations are so plentiful, so stunning, and so heavily backed up with receipts that they are impossible to adequately summarize here.”
This is the man Trump sent to Ukraine to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden. He’s the man who led his legal challenges to the 2020 election. For these efforts, he helped get Trump impeached twice, and he will be central to any election-related charges Trump faces from Special Counsel Jack Smith or Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis.
Trump, of course, has already been held liable for committing sexual assault. The two of them make quite a pair. Richard Nixon surrounded himself with a complete crew of amoral scoundrels, but they can’t compete.
There is no bottom with these fuckers. We’ve known for years that Rudy was a piece of shit, but then all these details come out and it’s worse than anyone would have guessed.
Why didn’t she leave like most other women would? Rudy is scum, but why didn’t she leave the first time he tried anything?
Assuming these are serious questions (and I have no reason to think otherwise), I’d encourage you to read testimonies of survivors of abuse. Many of the things they describe are similar to those described in the court document.
A second thought: these questions are similar to the “why didn’t you scream?” questions asked of E. Jean Carroll in her case against Trump. Victims 1) don’t all act the same way, and 2) are often isolated and/or vulnerable. Predators (like Trump, like Rudy is alleged to be in this suit) tend to be good at picking out and isolating potential victims.