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President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is back in the public eye after keeping a relatively low profile following the impeachment trial against his client.
<p><em>The Washington Post</em> looked into what the former mayor of New York city has been up to with his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-a-familiar-voice-in-trumps-ear-promotes-experimental-coronavirus-treatments/2020/04/05/d4b3b56a-7438-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html" target="_blank">promotion of untested medical advice</a>. <br></p><p><div id="action_button_container"></div>
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</script></p><p><strong>What resulted was an exposé of Giulani's repeated attempts to promote treatments for the virus that experts say aren't feasible or even safe.</strong><br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>The article jogged the memory of <em>New York Magazine</em>'s Washington correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi" target="_blank">Olivia Nuzzi</a>, who shared a screenshot of her text conversation with Giuliani illustrating his fitness as an expert on pandemics.<br></p><p><strong>Nuzzi posted:</strong></p><blockquote><span></span><em>"This [Josh Dawsey] story about Rudy Giuliani attempting to advise President Trump during the pandemic reminds me that on March 17, as the number of positive cases in the US soared past 5,000, Giuliani asked me what the phrase "social distancing" meant."</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>On March 16, Nuzzi sent a text to Giuliani asking about his health, to which he answered "fine thank you" a day later. </p><p><strong>But when Nuzzi asked Trump's personal lawyer about "social distancing," Giuliani was stumped.</strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-custom">
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</p><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">So convo not result of accidental Butt Tweet. <br><br>But still - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RudyGiuliani?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RudyGiuliani</a> in public again, no longer Shadow Lawyer, Advisor, Collaborator, Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy but private citizen Cult <a href="https://twitter.com/coronavirus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Coronavirus</a> Team backing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpIsDangerous?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpIsDangerous</a> Rx prescription w/out Medical license.<br>— JoJo (@JoJoDiplomat) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoJoDiplomat/status/1247241280683266048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><strong>Some felt Giuliani was distancing from something.</strong></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">"Knowledge distancing"<br>— JustAModerate (@JustAModerate) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustAModerate/status/1247240121557987328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">He's useless<br>— Cynthia Villarreal (@Cynthia31917443) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cynthia31917443/status/1247276949162070016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">This is the most Rudy Giuliani thing of all time. "What does that mean", amazing.<br>— AJ Jordan (@AAjjegowda) <a href="https://twitter.com/AAjjegowda/status/1247279717721522182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Well isn't this just another example of why we are behind the virus and not ahead of it?<br>— Michael Hawkins (@mhawk1220) <a href="https://twitter.com/mhawk1220/status/1247280177001816064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><strong>People noted another expert status Giuliani bestowed upon himself.</strong><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Come on, give the country's foremost cyber expert some slack.<br>— Roger Lie (@KegirK) <a href="https://twitter.com/KegirK/status/1247284691931201541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Uh, Olivia, maybe you don't realize that Rudy is a very smart guy and runs a security company. Very smart.<br>— 🛑 stop (@somethingshift) <a href="https://twitter.com/somethingshift/status/1247239395708551168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Cyber security expert right there. <a href="https://t.co/mCQi8aa473">pic.twitter.com/mCQi8aa473</a><br>— TangoWhiskyAlphaTango (@MehDoesntCovrIt) <a href="https://twitter.com/MehDoesntCovrIt/status/1247279780694720515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><strong>And one request was made over and over.</strong></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Please find out how <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RudyGiuliani</a> are making money off <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HydroxychloroquineAndAzithromycin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HydroxychloroquineAndAzithromycin</a>? Asking for 65 million friends.<br>— Ryanne@🏠 (@madiganr22) <a href="https://twitter.com/madiganr22/status/1247299006721675264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p>During a public health crisis, listening to people with no knowledge or qualifications in medicine, public health or science who contradict "academics" is unwise.</p><p>During a pandemic, ignorance kills.</p><p><span></span>The book <span></span><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2wiCTuI" target="_blank">Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11</a></strong></em> is available <em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2wiCTuI" target="_blank">here</a></strong></em>.</p>
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