WHERE'S RUDY?

Prior to  October, 2019, you couldn't turn on your TV set without seeing Rudy Giuliani smiling at you, explaining how, as the President's lawyer, and with State Department help, he had gone to Ukraine to find the truth about the Bidens' corruption. He said he had collected so much information, he was producing his own documentary for release at the appropriate time.

 Rudy's penchant for publicity knew no idealogical boundaries. He didn't play favorites: he gave interviews to MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, The Dubuque Trumpet, and more. Just ask, and Rudy would come and talk to you in your living room if you promised to put the interview on your Facebook page.

Then the SDNY indicted two of his pals and "business associates," Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. The pair are Russian born US citizens, and were instrumental in Rudy's activities in Ukraine, including working to bring about the firing of Ambassador Marie Yavonovitch, whom Trump threatened in his "perfect" conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. She later was a major witness in the House impeachment hearings.

The indictment of Parnas and Fruman was for conspiring to violate the ban on foreign contributions to U.S. elections. Parnas promptly announced his intention, indeed his eagerness, to cooperate with the prosecution and with  the House impeachment inquiry. He is said to have turned over hundreds of letters, tweets, texts, photos and emails. His lawyers have said he can testify to how Trump and his cabal tried to smear the Bidens.

(Trump said he barely knew Parnas, who then produced scores of photos and recollections of his meetings with our Pinocchio-in-Chief.)

Giuliani was struck dumb by the indictment. Not a word. He said nothing about the $500,000 he was paid by Parnas and

Fruman in connection with a company they founded, called, appropriately enough, "Fraud Guarantee." Rudy never explained what he did with the money, and disappeared from public view.

Within the last month, the SDNY has announced it will likely bring additional charges against Parnas and Fruman. And the press has reported that the prosecutors have sought numerous documents and spoken to numerous witnesses that might lead to an indictment of Giuliani.

Is that why Rudy has clammed up? Listening to his criminal defense lawyer, y'think?

Nah. Rudy has nothing to fear from any indictment because he is certainly at the top the TPL, (Trump Pardon List), and he will surely escape from the reaches of the law along with Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, Tucker Carlson, the Three Amigos, and Trump's son-in-law.

So what has silenced the Clown?

Here's my conspiracy theory:

It is not just Rudy who has been quiet about his great Ukraine Adventure. After the impeachment vote in the Senate, Trump crowed about his exoneration, and like the compassionate Christian he is, fired every person on his staff who was involved in giving evidence against him. But throughout the great purge, he has not uttered a word or retweeted a syllable to advance the "treason" theory that Hunter Biden was corrupt and so was his dad. Not a word from Trump, and to a degree even more surprising, not a word from Rudy.

Conclusion: The Trumpians are keeping their powder dry. No point in further defaming Joe if he will not be the candidate, right?  No point in unleashing the corrupt Ukrainian pols Rudy has locked in the basement until their "revelations" can do the most damage. It would be pointless to release that stink campaign until it is certain that Biden is the nominee. Not only that, a premature release might cause the Democratic convention to swing to some other non-communist candidate. There are lots who could fill that bill.

So I suggest Rudy is quietly sitting back and tamping down the powder in his schmutz grenades. He will turn in his clown suit for whip and top hat the first week in October. He'll crack the whip, and then we'll see the elephants circle about the whipmeister. We'll see and hear the witnesses who will swear that Hunter was Joe's corrupt emissary. Not only that, we will learn that Joe knows where the Crowdstrike server is buried. He got it from Jim Comey at the direction of Barack Obama.

Did you really believe the Republicans had stopped beating that drum?

There will be four chapters to The Great Giuliani October Surprise, the last one broadcast in a multi-network Slime Special on the evening of November 2.

You heard it here first.

Caveat: This conspiracy theory is brought to you by the guy who, just two weeks ago, bought two "BLOOMBERG 2020" bumper stickers.

A bientot.

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