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Donald Trump may drop out of the 2020 presidential race if he believes he has no chance of winning, a Republican Party operative reportedly told Fox News.

The claim comes in a report in the president’s favourite news outlet that cites a number of GOP insiders who are concerned about Mr Trump’s re-election prospects amid abysmal polling numbers.

 

 

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On 21/06/2020 at 13:12, Dougie Do'ins said:

If the polls do start showing anything like a landslide defeat for Trump, I can see him pulling out for whatever bat shit excuse he can muster rather than have to face an embarrassing loss. 

 

28 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Donald Trump may drop out of the 2020 presidential race if he believes he has no chance of winning, a Republican Party operative reportedly told Fox News.

The claim comes in a report in the president’s favourite news outlet that cites a number of GOP insiders who are concerned about Mr Trump’s re-election prospects amid abysmal polling numbers.

Move over Nostradamus. Dougie's in town.

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I couldn’t find the American politics thread so I’ll put this here...

 

I’m interested to know what the American posters on here think happened to Rudy Guiliani? 
 

When I was living in NY he was pretty well thought of and you’d constantly hear comments of ‘I’ve never voted Republican in my life but I voted for Rudy’. 
 

Has he had some kind of breakdown or was he always a cunt who just reduced the murder rate and taxes? 

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4 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

I couldn’t find the American politics thread so I’ll put this here...

 

I’m interested to know what the American posters on here think happened to Rudy Guiliani? 
 

When I was living in NY he was pretty well thought of and you’d constantly hear comments of ‘I’ve never voted Republican in my life but I voted for Rudy’. 
 

Has he had some kind of breakdown or was he always a cunt who just reduced the murder rate and taxes? 

Wasn't he the one who realised that NY could be a world tourist destination and basically cleaned its act up ? Crime, etc ?

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27 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

I couldn’t find the American politics thread so I’ll put this here...

 

I’m interested to know what the American posters on here think happened to Rudy Guiliani? 
 

When I was living in NY he was pretty well thought of and you’d constantly hear comments of ‘I’ve never voted Republican in my life but I voted for Rudy’. 
 

Has he had some kind of breakdown or was he always a cunt who just reduced the murder rate and taxes? 

 

I don't want to get drawn into writing an essay, but I'll try to keep it brief. Giuilani ran for the Republican Presidential ticket in 2008. He was briefly the frontrunner, based almost entirely on his image as 'America's Mayor', an image he garnered post 9/11. His run as favourite was pretty brief and was assassinated by a now famous barb by Joe Biden, who was himself in the running for the Democratic nomination.

 

'Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency," he says. Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he [needs] to make ... a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.'

 

From what I can gather, he spent between 2008-2016 working as a consultant and partner in his own private firm, making a fair sum of money. He reemerged properly on cable news in 2016 as a staunch defender of Trump, even sticking by his old friend in the aftermath of the infamous "pussy tape".

 

He was widely thought to be pushing for a serious portfolio in the administration and, along with Chris Christie, was thought to be one of Trump's preferred choices for Attorney General. This was quickly nixed as both would never be able to be confirmed in the Senate. Since then, he has continued to make appearances on television defending Trump in more and more outlandish ways and he is widely cited to have acted in a personal activity for Trump in enacting the president's dirty diplomatic deeds, most notably in the Ukraine affair.

 

The recent spotlight on brutality and racial prejudice within the police force has thrown into focus his record as mayor of New York City in the 1990s where 'stop and frisk', widely touted in conservative circles for years as the panacea to New York's longstanding crime problem, was in practice a systematic method of brutal discrimination against the city's ethnic minority population.

 

Doubt has now been cast over his 9/11 heroics; I'll leave the following link below for anyone who cares to watch to make their own assessment.

 

http://www.rudy-urbanlegend.com

 

I'm not sure why I wrote this like I'm a New York Times reporter, but hopefully it makes sense.

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1 hour ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Wasn't he the one who realised that NY could be a world tourist destination and basically cleaned its act up ? Crime, etc ?

He appointed that William Bratton I think, the police chief who introduced broken windows theory and zero tolerance policing. He also introduced stats based policing like you see in The Wire (compstat), I think that had a good rep in NY but critics say it's not a one size fits all solution doesn't fit cities like Baltimore for whatever reason. 

 

I'm pretty sure Giuliani worked as a DA or US Attorney and helped bring down a lot of big New York mobsters, sure I read somewhere the Mafia had a contract out on him at some stage. 

 

Sadly these days, politics is so partisan that it'll be virtually impossible - like with people like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton - to get to the bottom of what good as well as bad things he may have done in the past, as there'll always be folks out there with agendas to push who want to wipe the whole slate clean. 

 

That's the problem these days. If you're on the opposite side then you're 110% cunt and everything in your past is cunty, even the things that didn't appear cunty at the time were, if you look close enough, done for cunty reasons. 

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5 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

I'm pretty sure Giuliani worked as a DA or US Attorney and helped bring down a lot of big New York mobsters, sure I read somewhere the Mafia had a contract out on him at some stage. 

 

He was the US Att for the Southern District - he also did Boesky for insider trading during that time. Ironically he is now being investigated by the Southern District for the Ukraine money trail.

 

Bit of a scumbag when it comes to women as well.

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