Tag Archives: Rudy Giuliani

Rudy’s Presser Inspires Literary Tweets

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2020

Literary tweeters have been having a field day about Trump lawyer Giuliani booking a landscaping store for a press conference about alleged voter fraud.

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Godfather Trump: “Talk with Rudy”

By Robin Bates | Published: November 20, 2019

Trump didn’t have to explicitly use the word “bribe.” Others understood what he wanted and carried out his will. Puzo in “The Godfather” describes how this works.

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Giuliani, a Kiplingesque Fortune Hunter

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2019

Rudy Giuliani resembles the fortune hunters in Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King.”

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What Is Truth? Cowper’s Beautiful Answer

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2018

In the face of Trump’s constant lying, we need William Cowper, who reminds us of the sanctity of truth.

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Brecht on Speaking Truth to Power

By Robin Bates | Published: August 20, 2018

Monday A Bertolt Brecht poem came to mind when Retired Navy Admiral William H. McRaven came to the defense of former CIA Director John Brennan, stripped of his security clearance by a Donald Trump angry at his criticisms. Vox has the story of what happened: The man who led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in […]

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Will “The Fat Man” Sell Out Jared?

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2018

Sounding like a character in “The Maltese Falcon,” Rudy Giuliani declared that Jared Kushner is “disposable.”

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