Giuliani and truth
A few days ago the Guardian reported that, according to Michael Wolff author of Fire and Fury the insider exposé of the Trump White Hose, the Mueller Commission had drawn up a three part indictment of Trump for obstruction of justice. Mueller, through a spokesperson, denied such a document existed. I read the article with interest and then did what I always do, check for another source. Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post referred to the article. Perhaps they had been scooped or perhaps they were skeptical. Then I thought of Rudi Giuliani.
Rudi Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and now the lawyer for Donald Trump, saw a video of Nancy Pelosi in which she looked mentally impaired, and immediately disseminated it around the internet by retweeting it. When the video was proved to have been altered to make Speaker Pelosi look bad, Giuliani came under criticism for spreading false information on the internet. His response was, "“I didn’t know it was doctored,” he said. “I had no reason to believe it at the time. It looked like enough of an extension of the way she communicates anyway.” And later he said, "Where do you go to check that it's inaccurate? How could I have figured out that it was inaccurate?” He said this in light of a three year investigation of Russian influence in our election process by disseminating false internet information.
Any person interested in the truth would have figured out in 30 seconds that the video of Speaker Pelosi had likely been altered. One only needed to go to the original video of her speaking and compare the two. Even if the original was not available online, living in an age of political disinformation, any image or statement received through the internet is suspect and should not be disseminated without being checked for validity. Giuliani knows this and he doesn't care because he doesn't care about the truth. Giuliani is being paid by the White House Troll-in-Chief to carry on an advertising campaign against Trump's enemies. After this foolishness no one should believe anything Rudi Giuliani says. Either he spread false information on purpose (a crime) or he is too ignorant to be allowed to speak in public and be believed.
Rudi Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and now the lawyer for Donald Trump, saw a video of Nancy Pelosi in which she looked mentally impaired, and immediately disseminated it around the internet by retweeting it. When the video was proved to have been altered to make Speaker Pelosi look bad, Giuliani came under criticism for spreading false information on the internet. His response was, "“I didn’t know it was doctored,” he said. “I had no reason to believe it at the time. It looked like enough of an extension of the way she communicates anyway.” And later he said, "Where do you go to check that it's inaccurate? How could I have figured out that it was inaccurate?” He said this in light of a three year investigation of Russian influence in our election process by disseminating false internet information.
Any person interested in the truth would have figured out in 30 seconds that the video of Speaker Pelosi had likely been altered. One only needed to go to the original video of her speaking and compare the two. Even if the original was not available online, living in an age of political disinformation, any image or statement received through the internet is suspect and should not be disseminated without being checked for validity. Giuliani knows this and he doesn't care because he doesn't care about the truth. Giuliani is being paid by the White House Troll-in-Chief to carry on an advertising campaign against Trump's enemies. After this foolishness no one should believe anything Rudi Giuliani says. Either he spread false information on purpose (a crime) or he is too ignorant to be allowed to speak in public and be believed.
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