'America’s mayor' is now a punchline, fundraising tool and political shield for former Vice President Joe Biden
With Rudy Giuliani emerging as the face of Donald Trump’s star-crossed operation to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine, the former vice president is using the former New York mayor-turned-presidential-fixer in a different capacity — as a foil in his own effort to fight back against Trump’s relentless attacks.
Bedingfield also delighted in Trump’s attempt to distance himself from Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman after their indictments — a problem because the president and his son and namesake had been separately photographed with the two Soviet-born Florida businessmen. Before they were arrested Wednesday night at Dulles International Airport, the men were had planned to meet Giuliani in Vienna, Austria.
A former Giuliani adviser, Rick Wilson, said the former mayor and federal prosecutor “lost his way” as he became a lobbyist and insider. He had his own deals overseas and got so entangled in them, Wilson said, that he was like Trump’s now-convicted former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who had so many interests in Russia and Ukraine that “he became like an Eastern European warlord.”
The animus between Biden and Giuliani traces back decades, famously surfacing in their respective failed bids for the presidency in 2008, after which Biden joined Barack Obama’s successful ticket and served as vice president until 2017. More than a year after Trump took office — and after the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen was convicted in a separate federal campaign finance scheme involving hush-money payoffs to a porn actress — Giuliani began working as Trump’s personal lawyer in Ukraine.
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