Former NYC Mayor and current Donald Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani is raging against his own party after Special Counsel John Durham‘s published opinion that the FBI had insufficient cause to launch “Crossfire Hurricane” — the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 and Russian operatives.
(Crossfire Hurricane is a phrase from the Rolling Stones song “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” whose protagonist begins “I was born in a crossfire hurricane / And I howled at the morning drivin’ rain / But it’s all right now.”)
Giuliani says it’s not all right now, however. And he’s not just pointing the finger at Democrats, but at Republicans too, shockingly calling Democrats and Republicans “almost indistinguishable at times.” (This is decidedly not the viewpoint held by most witnesses.)
Giuliani rages in frustration asking:
Will House & Senate Republicans even ATTEMPT to hold anyone accountable following the damning Durham Report?
Rudy Giuliani
Will House & Senate Republicans even ATTEMPT to hold anyone accountable following the damning Durham Report?
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) May 16, 2023
No wonder President Trump won in 2016. Today's Democrat Party is destroying America and the Republican Party seems almost indistiguishable at times. #AmericasMayorLive 🇺🇲 https://t.co/K9s2FtDqm5
Durham himself, as Politico puts it, “failed to secure significant criminal convictions related to alleged FBI misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe.”
Accordingly, Durham pre-empts Giuliani’s rage, writing in the report’s introduction that “not every injustice or transgression amounts to a criminal offense.” He also writes that often “a person’s bad judgment, even horribly bad judgment, standing alone,” does not rise to the level of “a crime.”
The Durham Report revealed how Obama and Biden knew about Clinton's plan to LIE & TIE Trump to Putin.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) May 16, 2023
This is unacceptable.
The questionis—will Republicans in Washington demand accountability or let them continue to get away with this sort of behavior?#AmericasMayorLive 🇺🇲 https://t.co/K9s2FtDqm5
Giuliani, dissatisfied with such caveats, asks, again focused on the GOP: “The question is—will Republicans in Washington demand accountability or let them continue to get away with this sort of behavior?”
Rudy Giuliani has been sued for $10 million by one of his former associates who has accused the former New York City mayor of sexual assault https://t.co/ututUOeJ7J pic.twitter.com/bAB3vt4cZq
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 16, 2023
Searchers on Giuliani news today will certainly encounter stories concerning people continuing ” to get away with this sort of behavior,” as he decries — but they still could miss the news of Giuliani’s rage against the foundering GOP.
Instead, the more prominently featured news about Giuliani today is that he faces a $10 million lawsuit by a former employee who alleges Giuliani sexually assaulted her, and who claims she has recordings of Giuliani boasting about activities that — unlike what Durham found — would be prosecutable crimes.
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