A reporter published several text message exchanges with Rudy Giuliani after he criticized her when she reached out to him for a comment on a story about his odd relationships with reporters.
New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi published a “reporter’s guide” to texting Giuliani in the wake of his repeated cell phone flubs. Giuliani has been known to regularly text reporters, including several unintentional text messages and phone calls.
Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik told the magazine that he doesn’t believe that Giuliani has lost his edge in the wake of his chaotic past few months. He claimed Giuliani had just reverted back to the communication style he maintained while working as a New York prosecutor.
“I think the reality is people perceive a decline because they’re witnessing him being extremely aggressive, persistent, and vocal about a political issue that has polarized the country,” he said. “I think people just see his aggression as a decline. But I have to tell you, in sitting with him and going through these details, names, times, places, all the stuff that he has collected since last year, I can tell you he doesn’t miss a beat. There is no decline. It’s almost like he has reverted back to his prosecutorial mindset.”
When Nuzzi reached out to Giuliani for a comment on his stability and sharpness, he replied, “Garbage your publication cannot be counted on to report fairly on this salacious stupidity … I am a high-functioning human being able to outwork people half my age. Compared to Biden and Pelosi, I’m a phenom.”
The report also included input from other reporters who described Giulini’s chaotic correspondence, which sometimes includes text message rants at 2:46 a.m. and texting wrong numbers photographs of him on a golf cart while smoking a cigar.
“I’ve definitely woken up to a missed FaceTime call, which I can only hope was inadvertent,” one White House reporter said.
Giuliani, 75, has been a major figure throughout the House impeachment as several witnesses detailed his unofficial efforts to launch an investigation into Joe Biden over his son’s position on the board of a Ukraine natural gas firm Burisma Holdings. One witness, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, told Congress she felt threatened by Giuliani’s actions in the region.
