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BumRushDaShow

(151,217 posts)
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 04:18 AM Apr 13

'They won't call me back': Rudy Giuliani being frozen out after 'dramatic U-turn' on Trump

Source: Raw Story

April 12, 2025 4:33PM ET


Donald Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani says he can't get a call back from the White House after he started criticizing the President's top Cabinet officials. Giuliani "made a dramatic U-turn over President Donald Trump's 'crooked' choices after years of working as his fixer," according to the Daily Mail. It cites Giuliani's recent interview with conservative pundit Eric Bolling.

"The 80-year-old, who is currently facing mounting legal woes, told Bolling that although he's pleased with changes at the Justice Department, he still has problems with 'crooked' choices made by FBI director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi," the outlet reported Saturday.

According to the report, "He specifically said he doesn't agree with the way Patel and Bondi have been 'going after Catholics in the Justice Department' and the January 6 participants." The interview was also flagged by The Daily Beast, which published an article entitled, "Rudy Giuliani Whines About FBI Trump BFF Kash Patel is Running."

"No one at the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will return Rudy Giuliani’s calls, and he’s really not happy about it," the outlet reported.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-giuliani-frozen-out-turn/

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'They won't call me back': Rudy Giuliani being frozen out after 'dramatic U-turn' on Trump (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 13 OP
"Why, they are nothing but godforsaken republicons." - Ghouli (R) BoRaGard Apr 13 #1
Oh, dear... Mike Nelson Apr 13 #2
It's early days yet. BobTheSubgenius Apr 14 #64
Oh darn JMCKUSICK Apr 13 #3
Seriously!! Boo-fuckin-hoo for Ghouli!! InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 13 #53
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy -- Everything Trump Touches Dies Hekate Apr 13 #4
and they just can't see this--blinded by the chance at millions/billions. Elon will be the next to find out. C Moon Apr 13 #7
Can't happen soon enough. Would love to see that jumping fool with hair-dye running down his face... Hekate Apr 13 #8
I say call him in front of the Raskin-Schiff Democracy "Hearings" and get him to spill the deep crap. Promise him..... usaf-vet Apr 13 #27
That is true. Elmo is doomed as soon as he's no longer useful. paleotn Apr 13 #23
He's doomed as soon as dooming him useful for Trump. ToxMarz Apr 13 #48
He may be just rich enough to survive somewhere? Evolve Dammit Apr 13 #52
Oh Rudy, bless your heart. Dulcinea Apr 14 #61
What percentage of Scaramooch did Kash Patel get? Baitball Blogger Apr 13 #5
Wait, what? Is Ka$h Patel gone? Hekate Apr 13 #9
See what I mean? Baitball Blogger Apr 13 #11
Patel is still head of the FBI. He is no longer the acting head of ATF. 33taw Apr 13 #34
Thank you for the correction. Baitball Blogger Apr 13 #40
Patel isn't "gone" ... he just lost one fake title that he didn't want anyway FakeNoose Apr 13 #38
"Going after Catholics in the Justice Department"?? This is new. Please be true. Shit, meet fan. FadedMullet Apr 13 #6
That would indeed be weird, given the composition of the SCOTUS Hekate Apr 13 #10
Rudy and Kash. Yet more bamboozled members of a minority demographic B.See Apr 13 #12
Sorry, not sorry. #ETTD Earth Bound Misfit Apr 13 #13
Poor, poor Rudy. mwb970 Apr 13 #14
Rudy can't say he wasn't warned. . . DinahMoeHum Apr 13 #15
"He's going to take care of me," Mr. Wilson said Mr. Giuliani would tell those around him." BumRushDaShow Apr 13 #16
Poor Ghouliani isn't getting any attention. Awww. paleotn Apr 13 #17
Interesting that six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are catholic. Trumpanzee sadism blinds themselves. 4D chess. nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 13 #20
I've wondered about that. paleotn Apr 13 #28
They grabbed you by the nuts in your head and used you until you wanted to be paid. Sucker. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 13 #18
Maybe this ASSHOLE should wake up and smell the coffee! bluestarone Apr 13 #19
You forfeited your 44 year old car. How ya gonna get to werk? twodogsbarking Apr 13 #21
Could there be another reason for no return calls? Yonnie3 Apr 13 #22
How do these fucking people live so long Aviation Pro Apr 13 #24
Satan doesn't want them Nasruddin Apr 13 #33
These trump whores never seem to learn. Paladin Apr 13 #25
Reduced to chicken shit DENVERPOPS Apr 13 #31
I hope none of them ever get wise. They deserve no better. (nt) Paladin Apr 13 #39
Just like all the insurectionists DENVERPOPS Apr 13 #56
Under the bus he goes. Dave Bowman Apr 13 #26
womp womp. f him! nt orleans Apr 13 #29
"What have you done for Mango Jebus today, you broke pissant?" marble falls Apr 13 #30
So his problem with their 'crooked choices' is that he wasn't involved with them? travelingthrulife Apr 13 #32
Boo hoo, Rudy Ghouliani -- but the good news is Rocknation Apr 13 #35
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving POS. Crowman2009 Apr 13 #36
Rudy thought he was going to be AG Mountainguy Apr 13 #37
Lucky you're not in jail where you belong, soooo oasis Apr 13 #41
Call Rudy a Whaaaaambulance. Play for him a minuscule violin. Martin68 Apr 13 #42
"You used to call me on the cell phone" JoseBalow Apr 13 #43
He can't even afford a van down by the river. twodogsbarking Apr 13 #44
He was just never that into you, Rudy. LudwigPastorius Apr 13 #45
I believe the 'under the bus' moment - came for Rudy a good while back ... -(nt)- stopdiggin Apr 13 #46
this is the world guilliani gave up everything for samsingh Apr 13 #47
*gets out my Planck-scale violin* sakabatou Apr 13 #49
Why would they call him back? RT_Fanatic Apr 13 #50
You serve no purpose anymore Mr. hair dye drizzle old man. Everything Trump touches, dies. n/t Evolve Dammit Apr 13 #51
From useful idiot to just plain useless C_U_L8R Apr 13 #54
Doesn't Trump still owe him money for 'services rendered'? Attilatheblond Apr 13 #55
This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Apr 13 #57
*sad trombone noises* sakabatou Apr 13 #58
Find yourself a street corner, Colludy Hassler Apr 14 #59
America's ex-mayor Simeon Salus Apr 14 #60
"Guiliani Time is the only way I'll ever remember this scumbag." BumRushDaShow Apr 14 #62
One of the rare cases when I'm sad such a story wasn't entirely true Simeon Salus Apr 14 #63
Yeah BumRushDaShow Apr 14 #66
Rudy Fail thought crime Apr 14 #65
Sorry Rudy, I've got no sympathy to offer to you. Paladin Apr 14 #67

Mike Nelson

(10,545 posts)
2. Oh, dear...
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 04:55 AM
Apr 13

... poor thing. At least he hasn't been flown to a torture prison in South America. Pray for Rudy!

C Moon

(12,807 posts)
7. and they just can't see this--blinded by the chance at millions/billions. Elon will be the next to find out.
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:44 AM
Apr 13

Hekate

(97,344 posts)
8. Can't happen soon enough. Would love to see that jumping fool with hair-dye running down his face...
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:49 AM
Apr 13

…slurring like the former Mayor of NYC. Maybe have a melt-down like the Wicked Witch of the West and take his Flying Monkeys away with him.


usaf-vet

(7,467 posts)
27. I say call him in front of the Raskin-Schiff Democracy "Hearings" and get him to spill the deep crap. Promise him.....
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:48 AM
Apr 13

...... heaven and earth to get him on the public record of the SH*T they have been doing EVERYTHING!

Remind him the next Democratic President ALSO has pardon power.

paleotn

(20,282 posts)
23. That is true. Elmo is doomed as soon as he's no longer useful.
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:16 AM
Apr 13

Tesla was already under intense pressure from the big names in the auto industry. Now the brand is destroyed and much of it's prior success was dependent on tax policy that's been shit canned. While it's stock price, Elmo's only real asset, is down, it's still doing a Wil E. Coyote imitation and will crash even further when the full impact of brand destruction becomes public.

Starlink has lost tons of money. Damn expensive developing and then maintaining a bunch orbital infrastructure. But that market is also fierce, and the brand irreparably damaged. The rest of his toys rely on US government spend that's drying up. The fascist regime really isn't going to blow a bunch of cash on his little rockets and dreams of Mars. Unless it serves them directly, they couldn't care less.

And his Twitter takeover creditors are going to want their money, while available resources to service the debt is shrinking fast. X is a shell of what Twitter was and makes no money. Interestingly, Morgan Stanley and others are selling their exposure to the Twitter takeover debt. Getting out while the getting is good perhaps, like abandoning mortgage backed securities before the 2008 collapse.

Dulcinea

(8,266 posts)
61. Oh Rudy, bless your heart.
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 08:06 AM
Apr 14

You've outlived your usefulness & now you're political roadkill. Cry me a river.

Baitball Blogger

(49,860 posts)
5. What percentage of Scaramooch did Kash Patel get?
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:37 AM
Apr 13

So much weird things go on with this Administration, that we can't even stop to ask if Patel refused to do something illegal, or was he incompetent even by this Administration's standards.

FakeNoose

(37,216 posts)
38. Patel isn't "gone" ... he just lost one fake title that he didn't want anyway
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 12:35 PM
Apr 13

On Wednesday Kash Patel was replaced as "acting director" of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (ATF) It was a job he never showed up for and didn't want. He still has his original appointment as FBI Director.

Hekate

(97,344 posts)
10. That would indeed be weird, given the composition of the SCOTUS
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:52 AM
Apr 13

What a bunch of freaks this maladministration is

B.See

(5,195 posts)
12. Rudy and Kash. Yet more bamboozled members of a minority demographic
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 06:27 AM
Apr 13

who THINK nazi loving fascists like Trump, Musk, and Miller see them as one of their own.. until they discover they AREN'T.

I've read where some of (my fellow) "Blacks for Trump" are starting to wake the fk up too.

too little... too late.

DinahMoeHum

(22,870 posts)
15. Rudy can't say he wasn't warned. . .
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 09:22 AM
Apr 13

Former GOP strategist and former Giuliani employee Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project/Lincoln Square) tried in vain to advise him not to cast his lot with Trump in early 2016. . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/nyregion/rudy-giuliani-trump-indictment.html

Early in the scrum of the 2016 presidential campaign, the political strategist Rick Wilson bumped into an old boss and strongly advised him not to cast his lot with Donald J. Trump. No good would come of it.

“Even if he wins, he’s going to destroy you,” Mr. Wilson remembered telling Rudolph W. Giuliani. “This guy’s going to humiliate you.”

Mr. Wilson recalled being dismissed as a provincial Floridian unable to understand the bond between two New Yorkers — outer-borough strivers who walked the Manhattan streets with proprietary airs and were now within grasp of once-unimaginable power.

“He’s going to take care of me,” Mr. Wilson said Mr. Giuliani would tell those around him. A cabinet post, probably. Maybe secretary of state.

Never happened.

BumRushDaShow

(151,217 posts)
16. "He's going to take care of me," Mr. Wilson said Mr. Giuliani would tell those around him."
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 09:44 AM
Apr 13

He's lucky he isn't in jail for all his law-breaking and contempt for the justice system. Even his buddy Bernie Kerik served time for malfeasance. I suppose "someone" thought he was too much of an "attention-getter", making him a liability.

paleotn

(20,282 posts)
17. Poor Ghouliani isn't getting any attention. Awww.
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 09:46 AM
Apr 13

But an interesting development. So "Jeebs" Patel and Bondi are going after Catholics? Not surprising. Evilgelicals are means to an end kind of people and will ally with Catholics, Mormons, Jews or whoever when it serves their purposes. But don't be fooled. There's no love there. Evilgelicals don't do "multiple ways to God" and will shit on all of them when it suits them.

To them, Catholics are heretics, Mormons are infidels and Jews "killed Jesus!" For Catholics, its been that way since Luther. For Jews, it's been that way since forever. And they'll gleefully watch them all go to Hell for simply not adhering to their particular brand of magical thinking. After I left the faith ages ago, I thought it funny in an ironic sort of way that Evilgelicals sneered at Mormons for following a weird, improbable set of beliefs, different from their weird, improbable set of beliefs.

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,847 posts)
20. Interesting that six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are catholic. Trumpanzee sadism blinds themselves. 4D chess. nt
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
Apr 13

paleotn

(20,282 posts)
28. I've wondered about that.
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 11:05 AM
Apr 13

Maybe just a fluke that all 3 of Trump's appointees are Catholic. But then again, these were people put forward by Heritage Foundation and others like them, so maybe it's intentional. That's where means to an end comes in. Right leaning Catholics tend to be pretty reliable when it comes to Heritage's views women's reproductive healthcare. On the Protestant side, only serious fundies and Christian nationalists are as reliable. The rest are a mixed bag. It might have been too heavy a lift getting those crazies through the Senate. And Catholics can always fall back on "that's the official teaching of the church but not necessarily my view." A bit more complicated for Protestants. That may be a stretch, but I think it was all about the legality of abortion and birth control. Trump didn't have a clue who the hell those people were. He just nominated whoever was suggested.

bluestarone

(19,645 posts)
19. Maybe this ASSHOLE should wake up and smell the coffee!
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
Apr 13

Way past time to tell the American people wht TSF is all about.

Yonnie3

(18,592 posts)
22. Could there be another reason for no return calls?
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:10 AM
Apr 13

Occam's razor says:

Trump owes him fees and this is Trump's usual treatment of creditors.

Aviation Pro

(14,227 posts)
24. How do these fucking people live so long
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:32 AM
Apr 13

Drink baby blood? Bitten by a vampire? Large doses of drugs?

Paladin

(30,239 posts)
25. These trump whores never seem to learn.
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 10:34 AM
Apr 13

May all of them suffer the same fate as Rudy. Just as soon as possible.

DENVERPOPS

(11,848 posts)
31. Reduced to chicken shit
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 11:48 AM
Apr 13

like Trump has done with EVERYONE, his entire life........Why do they all think that THEY will be an exception.....

DENVERPOPS

(11,848 posts)
56. Just like all the insurectionists
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 06:31 PM
Apr 13

he will skate free, along with all the ton of other corrupt chicken shits in his infamous CABAL......

And he is not through yet..............

Even if there was a freeze today of every bit of damage he is doing, or has done, it would take a decade, just to un-do what he and all his creepoids have done so far. Every day that goes by, you can add another year of work, to just getting it back to where it was.....

Some things will never be un-done.......including our National Security sold during his first admin, and all since he got back into office.
Along with NONE of our other allied countries Intel or basic Trust, the list is un-fathomable and endless. They would still be unraveling his corruption/grifiting decades from now.

Since he is technically Commander and Chief of the U.S. Military, selling intel to our enemies, or others should be a cold hard case of Treason. Last I heard, the crime of Treason in the Military is punishable by DEATH........The entire rest of his spawn, Jared, and all his CABAL should spend the rest of their lives rotting in solitary confinement, in Colorado Super Max......

People must remember the main thing.................no way he could have ever been able to commit his daily corruption and crimes for the first four years, and the few last months, IF IT HADN'T OF BEEN FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, REPUBLICAN DONORS & UBER WEALTHY, CORPORATIONS, AND ESPECIALLY THE REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE DURING 45, AND NOW IN THE 47.........

travelingthrulife

(2,121 posts)
32. So his problem with their 'crooked choices' is that he wasn't involved with them?
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 11:50 AM
Apr 13

Rudy is still a crook. Quit interviewing him.

Rocknation

(44,909 posts)
35. Boo hoo, Rudy Ghouliani -- but the good news is
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 12:16 PM
Apr 13

it means a gig for the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet:





Rocknation

Crowman2009

(3,058 posts)
36. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving POS.
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 12:32 PM
Apr 13

I remember back in 2001 hearing bad things about this SOB from some Marines in my squadron who were from the Bronx.

Mountainguy

(1,736 posts)
37. Rudy thought he was going to be AG
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 12:33 PM
Apr 13

And now he's out in the cold.

Maybe he'll start dropping the dirt.

RT_Fanatic

(241 posts)
50. Why would they call him back?
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 04:14 PM
Apr 13

They used him and discarded him like a used Kleenex, pretty much all he was worth to them.

C_U_L8R

(47,163 posts)
54. From useful idiot to just plain useless
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 04:26 PM
Apr 13

Get a clue Julie. You could turn evidence if you had any integrity.

Attilatheblond

(5,679 posts)
55. Doesn't Trump still owe him money for 'services rendered'?
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:55 PM
Apr 13

Rudy, just accept you got stiffed and move on. Trump doesn't pay up and EVERYBODY knows it. Of course the WH won't talk to broke lil Rudy. They know he can't afford to even try to sue for what he is owed. No way will he get any gifts.

Simeon Salus

(1,479 posts)
60. America's ex-mayor
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 06:47 AM
Apr 14

As an America citizen who was living in NYC on 9/11, Guiliani Time is the only way I'll ever remember this scumbag.

Just another colorful character on Fux (& friends).

Disposable, too!

BumRushDaShow

(151,217 posts)
62. "Guiliani Time is the only way I'll ever remember this scumbag."
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 08:30 AM
Apr 14

As a longtime (generally former) listener of NYC talk radio since the '80s (from Philly, as we could pick up the AM stations pretty good), I didn't even know that was made.

I hope it included something about this (I post this often) -

Simeon Salus

(1,479 posts)
63. One of the rare cases when I'm sad such a story wasn't entirely true
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 09:33 AM
Apr 14

Important video above. The proof will never go away.

But the other side is so vigorous in dishing disinformation, I'm not gonna just correct people when they say Rudy is a bad man. He IS a bad man.

It is also true that while several New York City police officers were proven in fact to shove a broom handle up the rectum of a suspect, it is absolutely NOT true that they said "Guiliani time" while violating the man's civil rights and personal orifices.

So Rudy takes no responsibility for the anal rape Abner Louima suffered at the hands of New York City's finest. Or three three surgeries to repair his colon after the assault.

Rudy, no responsibility whatsover. Fox's America's Mayor! Woo hoo!

BumRushDaShow

(151,217 posts)
66. Yeah
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 01:34 PM
Apr 14

way before Rev. Al Sharpton showed up on MSNBC, he had (and still has) a syndicated show - "Keeping it Real" - and made appearances on various other black talk host shows like Bob Law's late night show, that highlighted the horrors in NYC back then.




Reverend Al Sharpton
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In 1997, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was running for re-election on his campaign of "law & order". But Blacks & Latinos were chafing at the rising number of stop & frisks in certain neighborhoods. 2 protests were held the same month of the Louima attack which thousands attended.
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The #AbnerLouima case became known as the police torture case.

I helped to lead the fight for Abner fighting for a conviction, organizing rallies, marches & pressers. The Louima case was 1 of the few times a victim of police brutality lived & got a jury to convict police. #BHM
10:39 AM · Feb 11, 2021


Even before that, Sharpton was involved in the Howard Beach, Yusef Hawkins, and other atrocities. Back in the '80s you also had now-RW loon Curtis Sliwa, who headed up the Guardian Angels.

thought crime

(163 posts)
65. Rudy Fail
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 01:06 PM
Apr 14

How you get a rude and a reckless?
Don't you be so crude and feckless
You been drinking brew for breakfast
Rudie can't fail (no, no)
-The Clash

Paladin

(30,239 posts)
67. Sorry Rudy, I've got no sympathy to offer to you.
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 01:42 PM
Apr 14

I'm kinda busy right now, watching trump and his goons flush my country down the toilet.

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