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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Trump aides testified that Rudy Giuliani pushed Trump to prematurely declare victory.</li><li>Trump's campaign manager said it was too early to declare victory on election night 2020.</li></ul>A group of former Trump aides testified that Rudy Giuliani pushed <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> to prematurely declare victory on election night in 2020, overriding the advice of the then-president's campaign manager to take a more measured tone as votes were still being counted."It was far too early to be making any calls like that," <keyword id="12493081" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bill-stepien" source="Orion">Bill Stepien</keyword>, Trump's 2020 campaign manager, testified before <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/live-january-6-committee-public-hearing-trump-insurrection-2022-6?_ga=2.43241509.1011320633.1655128760-1311350499.1611066322">the January 6 select committee in testimony that was first aired on Monday.</a> "Ballots were still being counted, ballots were still going to be counted for days, and it was far too early to be making any proclamation like that."Another top Trump aide, <keyword id="12047865" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jason-miller" source="Orion">Jason Miller</keyword>, testified that Giuliani was pushing Trump to go declare victory and that the former New York mayor lashed out at those in Trump's orbit who wanted to proceed in a more cautious manner."I think, effectively, Mayor Giuliani was saying, we won it, they're stealing it from us, where did all the votes come from? We need to go say that we won, and, essentially, anyone who didn't agree with that position was being weak," Miller testified during his previous deposition that like Stepien's was partially aired on Monday. Stepien, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-manager-bill-stepien-skips-january-6-testimony-childbirth-2022-6">who was scheduled to appear publicly</a>, testified that he was asked to hear Giuliani out in a meeting just off of the White House's map room that was attended by then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Giuliani testified during his deposition that he spoke to Trump "several times" on election night.While the exact sequence of events is unclear, Trump's own views are abundantly clear.Trump later declared from the White House in the early morning after the election, "Frankly, we did win this election" and called for "we want all voting to stop." Trump's latter view came despite his own campaign advisors warning him that the massive influx of mail-in voting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic meant that it could take days to know the election's outcome."I always told the president the truth, and I think he expected that from me," Stepien said, adding that he told Trump, "we're going to have to see how this plays out."Miller also testified that Giuliani was "definitely intoxicated" around the time he was making this push. Giuliani testified that he spoke to Trump directly "several times" on election night.Monday's hearing is the latest in a series of the <keyword id="11897870" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="january-6" source="Orion">January 6</keyword> panel's major public hearings. The committee is using the hearings as an opportunity to share some of their findings from the more than 1,000 interviews and thousands of documents they have collected during their probe into the January 6 insurrection.

Rudy Giuliani pushed Trump to declare victory on election night and said anyone who wanted to wait was 'weak,' the former president's ex-aides say

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="72226" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-City">New York City</keyword> mayoral primary is absurd, because the NYC mayoralty is absurd.</li><li>The mayor of New York is doomed in most if not all future political endeavours.</li><li>The position consumes the individual who holds it, rendering them useless for higher office.</li><li>This is an <keyword id="6356002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="opinion">opinion</keyword> column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</li></ul>Today marks the in-all-but-name end of a brutal campaign for New York mayor that has at times bordered on the ridiculous.One candidate, a former presidential contender, has <a href="https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/06/is-this-candidate-for-nyc-mayor-really-a-jersey-guy.html">alleged that another candidate</a>, the frontrunner, lives in New Jersey. One of the most progressive cities in the country has seen its chances for a progressive mayor collapse following <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-stringer-allegations-sexual-assault-intern-nyc-mayoral-race-2021-4">one candidate's allegations of past misconduct</a> and another's <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/5/27/22457597/dianne-morales-staff-implosion-mayoral-campaign">implosion over her own staffers attempt</a> to unionize. Meanwhile, the leading contender for the Republican party has worn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Sliwa">a beret</a> since the late seventies. It has been ridiculous at times, and that is altogether fitting, because the position of mayor of New York City is a ridiculous position that consumes its holder. Most municipal political offices are desirable because they offer an opportunity to prove oneself and, having done so, become eligible for higher office in the state or country.The New York City mayor is not that kind of office. The last mayor to attain higher elected office following their term was <a href="https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2019/11/hey-kids-wanna-be-president-dont-be-2.html">John T. Hoffman,</a> who went on to be the governor of New York. If you're rusty and trying to remember Gov. Hoffman's administration, good luck, it began in 1869.The last time a mayor of New York got a job in federal government was when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Livingston">Edward Livingston</a> was made secretary of state to Andrew Jackson. Given that it's rather hard to mess up the subway prior to the invention of the concept of subways, Livingston likely had a cake walk.Giuliani, Bloomberg, de Blasio, Lindsay - American <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> is littered with the shattered dreams of New York City mayors aspiring to the office of the presidency. Gracie Mansion is a political dead end. In terms of legacy, we're out of airports and nobody respects renamed bridges. But maybe they'll name a Staten Island Ferry after you?As a result, those drawn to the job must be the combination of ambitious and reckless that they believe they are up to a task that nobody in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/new-york-mayor-race-covid-income-racial-inequality">history of the city has ever been up to</a>.The United States' system of government lacks the panache of the parliamentary systems seen in places like the United Kingdom. In the United States, presidents can ride out into the sunset after eight years in office. In the UK, the only way for a prime minister to leave their job is by being wrenched from the office by the electorate or their own party members. The only way to leave 10 Downing is in shame.While NYC has term limits, for the past several decades, mayors tend to leave office more in the UK style: detested by the voters. They also tend to be detested while in office as well, but also upon exit.A <a href="https://scri.siena.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SNY1119-Crosstabs_1.pdf">2019 Sienna poll found that</a> of <keyword id="66577" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Michael-Bloomberg">Michael Bloomberg</keyword>, Rudy Giuliani and <keyword id="1710611" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bill-de-Blasio">Bill de Blasio</keyword>, Bloomberg had the highest approval rating among New York City residents, at a paltry 53% favorable and 38% unfavorable. Current Mayor de Blasio has a 35% favorability (and 57% unfavorable) while Giuliani enjoyed a 27% favorability (and 66% unfavorable). It is the rare office that consumes its holder. It takes a special kind of politician to see a cursed chalice, drink deep, and then order another round. It's why it is the best election in the country - there is no subtext and no next steps. They're all running for the first and the last line in their obituary. Of course it's going to be weird.

The New York City mayor's job is a poisoned chalice that consumes the individual who wins it. That's why it's the best election.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rudy Giuliani on Monday sought to distance himself and President Trump from <keyword id="10305627" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sidney-powell">Sidney Powell</keyword>, a lawyer who has been spouting conspiracy theories related to the 2020 election..</li><li>Powell has been spotted at the White House several times in the past week, where she has pitched Trump baseless allegations about election fraud.</li><li>"Let me say definitively that Sidney Powell is not part of our legal team, she hasn't been for five weeks," Giuliani told <keyword id="4084925" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="newsmax">Newsmax</keyword>. "She speaks for herself."</li></ul>Sidney Powell's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election - that US intelligence agencies collaborated with Venezuela and maybe China to rig voting machines for President-elect Joe Biden - are too extreme for even Rudy Giuliani, with the president's personal attorney once again seeking to distance his client from a lawyer who has been spotted at the White House multiple times over the past week."Let me say definitively that Sidney Powell is not part of our legal team, she hasn't been for five weeks," Giuliani said in an appearance on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/newsmax-airs-election-fraud-correction-video-lawsuit-dominion-smartmatic-2020-12">right-wing cable channel Newsmax</a>. "She is not a special counsel for the president, she does not speak for the president, nor does she speak for the administration. She speaks for herself."Last month, Giuliani himself appeared alongside Powell at a news conference where she spouted unfounded theories about election fraud - claims that have been rejected by every court that has heard them. Days later, Trump's legal team cut ties with Powell, saying she "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-purges-conspiracy-theorist-attorney-sidney-powell-2020-11">is practicing law on her own</a>."Despite this, President Trump himself has been meeting with her. On Sunday, reporters spotted her leaving the White House after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-urging-executive-order-to-seize-voting-machines-nyt-2020-12">pitching an executive order</a> that would ostensibly allow the president to seize and examine voting machines. Today, outgoing Attorney General Bill Barr <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-trump-special-counsel-voter-fraud-hunter-biden/2020/12/21/4d85f060-439c-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html">rejected any basis to seize voting machines</a> or name a special counsel to look into voter fraud, dismissing any "systemic or broad-based" election fraud.Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>

Rudy Giuliani tries to distance Trump from Sidney Powell's conspiracy theories, despite reports that she has been in multiple recent White House meetings

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President Trump's legal team is attempting to overturn the result of the election, which according to experts is essential a <keyword id="6536268" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coup">coup</keyword> attempt.</li><li>The attempt has produced some genuinely sad moments that make the embarrassing electoral loss look even worse.</li><li>This is an <keyword id="6356002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="opinion">opinion</keyword> column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</li></ul>It feels like years ago now, but back in May, two former US Special Forces members, along with 60 Venezuelan mercenaries, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21249203/venezuela-coup-jordan-goudreau-maduro-guaido-explain">attempted to kidnap</a> dictatorial Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and inspire a coup to overthrow his government.The anti-Maduro squad planned the raid for months, but a series of <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/dumbest-aspects-of-the-mercenary-coup-plot-in-venezuela.html">mind-numbingly stupid miscues</a> prevented them from even stepping foot in Maduro's compound. They were eventually captured by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/freedom-fighters-led-by-american-tried-invading-venezuela-11588722164">local fishermen</a>.In a constellation of dumb miscues, there was one particularly head-scratching mistake. Silvercorp, the private security firm that backed the coup attempt, was inexplicably live-Tweeting the beginning of the attack.<div type="image" title="SIlvercorp coup tweet" height="111" width="580" msid="79353617" hostid="261"></div>Besides the fact that "strikeforce incursion" sounds like the subtitle for a Call of Duty game, one could not even begin to wrap their head around how dumb this was. You don't have to study at West Point to know that a secret coup attempt requires an element of...secrecy. Thankfully for those involved in this colossal failure, it may only rank as the second-most embarrassing attempt at seizing power this year. Despite President-elect Joe Biden's commanding electoral and popular vote margins, sitting President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> is refusing to concede and attempting to throw out the legitimate results of the election.At the behest of the country's chief angry man, his lawyers — most notably former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — are trying to overturn the results by undermining the vote-counting process and forcing delays anywhere they can. Much like the attempted coup in Venezuela, there are a lot of dumb things happening right now.<h2>Stop the presses</h2>There has been <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/trump-failed-coup-danger.html">some debate</a> about whether Trump's actions <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-coup-stage-of-donald-trumps-presidency">qualify as a "coup d'etat,'</a> or the removal of an existing government. While Joe Biden's administration is still attempting to transition, it's clear that Trump is trying to stop the whole process. Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/10/nation/if-it-succeeded-it-would-be-coup-legal-experts-weigh-trump-teams-election-challenges/">told the Boston Globe</a> that "if it succeeded, it would be a coup."Giuliani has consistently argued — through <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-team-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html">tangents, lies</a>, and <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/giuliani-voter-fraud-lies-trump-lawsuit-michigan?bftwnews&amp;utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgcqpgc">thinly-veiled racism</a> — that a large portion of the votes against Trump shouldn't count. They aren't interested in the Democratic process because it's a process that doesn't allow them a path to victory. This is an attempted coup, regardless of how inept it is.One of the hallmarks of Trump's attempted coup has been the nonsensical press conference. First there was the November 7 presser that was held in the lot of a landscaping company in Philadelphia. Trump's team meant to book the luxury Four Seasons hotel to formally launch their voter-fraud case into the public eye, and Trump even Tweeted as much.<div type="image" title="Screen Shot 2020 11 20 at 2.53.48 PM" height="183" width="681" msid="79353619" hostid="261"></div>Somehow, a mistake was made, and the crew ended up at a different "Four Seasons," Four Seasons: Total Landscaping, a gardening business in north Philly. This is an image that serves as a perfect visual parallel for the proponents of this coup. They started off with a whimper, broadcasting their election conspiracy theories from a small landscaping business <a href="https://news.avclub.com/guy-who-owns-sex-shop-next-to-four-seasons-total-landsc-1845643003">located in between a crematorium and a sex shop.</a><div type="image" title="rudy giuliani sweat" height="512" width="1024" msid="79353621" hostid="261"></div>Then there was the scene we saw on Thursday, when Rudy's profuse perspiration caused his hair dye to drip down the sides of his face. The malfunction says nothing about the merit of his argument, but provides us with an apt analogy for the absurdity of this legal team's larger goal. Reporters asking for evidence of Trump's claims were met with misdirects and vitriol, illustrating that Rudy and his team will (quite literally) melt under even the most basic forms of journalistic pressure. This is the look of someone who is definitely not operating in good faith.Rudy was followed up by another of Trump's zany lawyers, Jenna Ellis. Never mind that Ellis <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/index.html">called Trump an "idiot"</a> in 2016, because now she's here to defend him. She scolded reporters for complaining that the conference contained little evidence, saying that they didn't "understand the legal process at all." Yes, reporters would do well to understand the legal process as much as Trump's team, who during the same conference <a href="http://hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-cousin-vinny-director-responds-to-rudy-giuliani-press-conference-mention?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twittertter">referred to a scene from the movie</a> <a href="http://hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-cousin-vinny-director-responds-to-rudy-giuliani-press-conference-mention?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twittertter">"My Cousin Vinny"</a> to make a point.<h2>All the president's men</h2>Even more damaging to this coup's already laughable reputation is the fact that its existence is making things more difficult for the party that ostensibly supports it. Faced with a new president-elect, Republicans are rejecting reality and playing cute with Trump's wild conspiracy theories. Instead of moving forward with a routine transition, most GOP lawmakers are refusing to do the bare minimum and acknowledge Biden rightfully won the election. And this has consequences: 70% of Republicans now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/10/election-trust-polling-study-republicans">believe that the election was rigged</a>.According to reporting by Politico, many prominent Republicans are afraid to even acknowledge Biden <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/18/conservatives-biden-presidential-transition-437945?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000016c-a5de-d088-a3ef-b7df92720000&amp;nlid=630318;nlid=630318">out of fear of appearing as traitors</a> to Trump. The fear of recognizing the win is hamstringing their efforts to prepare to oppose Biden's appointments and agenda. The obsession with voter fraud and refusal to accept the results has left many of the party's operatives in limbo. It's hard to promote your post-election agenda when you are discouraged from acknowledging that there is a post-election in the first place. Even down-ballot Republican candidates are taking Trump's lead by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/republican-candidates-follow-trump-s-lead-not-concede-their-races-n1247683">refusing to concede</a> their races, leaving the party at large in a bit of disarray.Perhaps the most embarrassing aspect of all is the fact that in the courts, Trump's challenges are producing the exact opposite effect he'd like. It is from a kind of grey area that Trump keeps pushing his voter-fraud message into oblivion. The claim can exist as long as it is not scrutinized, because once it is scrutinized, the game is over. However, by pushing for recounts and opposing certifications, Trump's legal team <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-election-challenges-loss-biden-fb42c9df-485d-4494-aeb2-6b2acadeb32a.html">is accidentally confirming the result of the election</a>, because, again, there was no widespread voter fraud in the first place.The cases are so lousy that even Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court nominees <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-hear-trump-election-lawsuits-time-running-out-2020-11?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">don't want anything to do with them</a>. The Supreme Court has so far ignored an attempt by the Trump campaign in intervene in a case involving mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. Michael Dorf, a constitutional-law professor at Cornell Law School, told Business Insider's Jacob Shamsian that the delay — despite the state's impending vote certification deadline — likely means that the Court wants nothing to do with Trump's shenanigans. It's hard to predict what Trump will do in his waning hours of defeat. Pundit and talk show host Bill Maher has been adamant that Trump will not willingly leave the White House, and President Obama even joked that <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/barack-obama-joke-navy-seals-remove-trump-the-white-house/">the Navy Seals may have to drag him out</a>.It's clear that all of this is happening because Trump views his electoral loss as an embarrassment, but the embarrassment of the loss itself pales in comparison to the attempt to overturn it. However it ends — and it will end soon — this will go down as the saddest attempt at a coup in American history.

Trump's embarrassing, incompetent, humiliating, very sad coup

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney for President Donald <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword>, says he was just "tucking in my shirt" after he appears to have his hand down his pants in front of a female actor in a scene in the sequel to "<keyword id="984744" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Borat">Borat</keyword>."</li><li>In a string of tweets on Wednesday, Giuliani defended himself after news circulated about his unwitting cameo in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," which is slated to appear in "which premieres on Friday, October 23 on Amazon Prime.</li></ul>Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, says he was just "tucking in my shirt" after he appears to have an <a href="https://www.insider.com/rudy-giuliani-cameo-in-borat-2-involes-seeming-inappropriate-encounter-2020-10">inappropriate encounter</a> with a female actor in a scene in the sequel to "Borat," starring Sacha Baron Cohen as the eponymous lead.In the new film, <a href="https://www.insider.com/rudy-giuliani-cameo-in-borat-2-involes-seeming-inappropriate-encounter-2020-10">"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," Giuliani can be seen in a hotel room with Tutar</a>, Borat's daughter played by actress Maria Bakalova. Tutar, who a news reporter at this point in the movie, is meeting Giuliani for an apparent interview.At one point in the scene, Tutar and Giuliani are drinking scotch when she takes him into the bedroom of the hotel suite he was being interviewed in. Giuliani can be seen gently tapping the small of her back with his hand, as <a href="https://www.insider.com/rudy-giuliani-cameo-in-borat-2-involes-seeming-inappropriate-encounter-2020-10">Insider previously reported</a>. Another angle shows Tutar trying to remove the microphone wire from Giuliani's shirt as he's sitting on the bed. He's then seen laying on the bed with his hand down his pants, doing what he says was tucking his shirt into his pants."The Borat video is a complete fabrication. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment. At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate," Giuliani wrote in a tweet. "If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar."The former mayor of New York City said the scene was retaliation for the work he's been doing to help Trump get re-elected. (The footage was apparently shot in July, before Giuliani's recent attempts to discredit Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.)"They'll do anything. They've attacked me over everything possible, investigated every business dealing I've ever had," he said in an interview with <a href="https://youtu.be/o-7U-VozY04">WABC radio.</a> "And now the idiot Borat is going after me with a totally sensationalized false account of a ridiculous movie I guess that he's done."

Rudy Giuliani says he was just 'tucking in my shirt' after being filmed by Sacha Baron Cohen with what appears to be his hand in his pants in front of a female actor

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Caroline Giuliani, the daughter of President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>'s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, shared some harsh criticism of her father and his boss on Thursday. </li><li>"The only way to end this nightmare is to vote," the 31-year-old wrote in a Vanity Fair column. "There is hope on the horizon, but we'll only grasp it if we elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris."</li><li>She called her father a "polarizing mayor who became the president's personal bulldog," and described Trump's time in the White House as a "reign of terror."</li></ul>While President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani campaigns for his boss' reelection, his daughter is rallying behind former Vice President Joe Biden. In a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/10/rudy-giulianis-daughter-on-voting-for-biden">Vanity Fair column</a> published Thursday, Caroline Giuliani openly expressed her distaste for Trump and called on Americans to instead tick the Democratic box this presidential election. "The only way to end this nightmare is to vote," the 31-year-old wrote. "There is hope on the horizon, but we'll only grasp it if we elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris."The piece comes after Giuliani had publicly shared her support for the Biden-Harris ticket on Twitter in August. In her social media bio, she calls herself a "LIBERAL, obviously." Giuliani, who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, said conflicting political views have long been a part of the family dynamic. She opened up about having childhood arguments over a range of issues with her father, whom she described as a "polarizing mayor who became the president's personal bulldog." In recent years, the former New York City mayor has turned into one of Trump's most prominent allies, first as a supporter during his 2016 campaign, then an adviser, and now a member of his legal team since 2018."I may not be able to change my father's mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office," she said in the piece. "It's taken persistence and nerve to find my voice in <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword>, and I'm using it now to ask you to stand with me in the fight to end Donald Trump's reign of terror."Giuliani wrote that some major points of contention that bubbled up between herself and her father involved LGBTQ+ rights as well as issues on race and sex — all areas she claimed Trump has harmed and will continue to threaten if he gets reelected."Trump and his enablers have used his presidency to stoke the injustice that already permeated our society, taking it to dramatically new, Bond-villain heights," she wrote. As a filmmaker in the LGBTQ+ community, "who tells stories about mental health, sexuality, and other stigmatized issues ... believe me when I say that another Trump term (a term, itself, that makes me cringe) will irrevocably harm the LGBTQ+ community, among many others," she added.Giuliani ended the column by urging voters — on the right, left, and those who remain undecided — to "hang on" and "elect a compassionate and decent president.""I fully understand that some of you want a nominee who is more progressive," she wrote. "Biden wasn't my first choice when the primaries started. But I know what is at stake, and Joe Biden will be everyone's president if elected."

'End this nightmare': Rudy Giuliani's daughter urges Americans to vote for Joe Biden in Vanity Fair editorial

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rudy Giuliani could be seen using a fake accent and pantomiming a bow at the end of one of his videos for his podcast "Common Sense."</li><li>The video, first covered by The Daily Beast, has since been removed.</li></ul>Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, used a fake accent and pantomimed a bow in a video clip filmed at the end of one of his podcast episodes. The clip was later <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201015020756if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7vZH3hTBzM">deleted</a>, but not before The Daily Beast caught and posted the footage.The Daily Beast first <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-posts-footage-of-himself-mocking-asians-to-youtube?ref=scroll">reported</a> the remarks, which came at the end of a video in which Giuliani interviewed the former White House press secretary Sean Spicer for the podcast "Common Sense."Editors apparently kept rolling minutes after the interview ended and captured the former New York mayor mocking Asians.Giuliani began speaking in the fake accent and bowing to his assistant Jayne Zirkle, who he said was "going to be the most famous model in China."Business Insider was not able to reach Giuliani for comment at the time of publication.See the video below:

Rudy Giuliani was recorded using a fake accent and pantomiming a bow in a now-deleted racist video clip posted online

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3581499" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Steve-Bannon">Steve Bannon</keyword> called out <keyword id="324847" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rudy-Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</keyword> after he said the Lincoln Project helped organize the Capitol riot.</li><li>Giuliani was unable to provide evidence for his claim, prompting Bannon to scold him during his podcast.</li><li>"This is why we're getting blown up all the time," Bannon told Giuliani.</li></ul>Former White House strategist Steve Bannon turned on his fellow Trump ally, Rudy Giuliani, after the ex-president's former lawyer tried to pin the Capitol riots' blame on The Lincoln Project.Bannon, who was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-will-pardon-steve-bannon-cnn-2021-1">pardoned by Former President Trump</a> during his final days in office, invited Giuliani to his "War Room" podcast on Friday to discuss the Capitol riots and the upcoming impeachment process.During the heated interview, Guliani repeated the false theory that antifa were the "wolves in sheep's clothing" involved in the deadly insurrection. The FBI and The Department of Justice (DOJ) have said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-no-intelligence-antifa-weekend-violence-george-floyd-protests-2020-6">there'd been no evidence</a> pointing to the group's involvement. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-federal-state-local-investigation-prosecution-georgia-call-2021-1">Donald Trump didn't pardon himself. A massive tsunami of legal peril now awaits him.</a>But then Giuliani made a new allegation. The insurrection was organized by an "anonymous" person who he claimed was connected with <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/the-lincoln-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Lincoln Project,</a> a Republican group that opposes Trump.With raised eyebrows, Bannon asks Giuliani about who that person might be, saying: "OK, but who is it? Rudy, we can't say - yo. Yo!" Giuliani proceeds to go on a wild rant, repeating the baseless accusation as Bannon tries to interrupt him."Hang on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa-what are you saying 'working for the Lincoln Project?' Right-wing groups like who?" Bannon pressed again."I don't know if I can reveal his name," Giuliani responded. "Because we have that from anonymous sources. But he worked in the past for [Utah Sen. Mitt] Romney."Bannon then appears to laugh off Giuliani's response before telling him: "This is why we're getting blown up all the time.""You can't throw a charge out there like that and say, 'Yeah, I've got a double-secret probation guy who I can't mention but he worked for Romney and he worked for the Lincoln Project,'" Bannon added.Watch the exchange below:Bannon has spent the last few weeks exploring baseless claims of widespread election fraud on his podcast "Bannon's War Room", which he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-apple-podcast-claim-millions-of-streams-2021-1">recently said has racked up 29 million streams.</a>Former White House strategist Steve Bannon turned on his fellow Trump ally, Rudy Giuliani, after the ex-president's former lawyer tried to pin the blame of the Capitol riots on The Lincoln Project.Bannon, who was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-will-pardon-steve-bannon-cnn-2021-1">pardoned by Former President Trump</a> during his final days in office, invited Giuliani to his "War Room" podcast on Friday to discuss the Capitol riots and the upcoming impeachment process.During the heated interview, Guliani repeated the false theory that antifa were the "wolves in sheep's clothing" involved in the deadly insurrection. The FBI and The Department of Justice (DOJ) have said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-no-intelligence-antifa-weekend-violence-george-floyd-protests-2020-6">there's been no evidence</a> pointing to the group's involvement. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-federal-state-local-investigation-prosecution-georgia-call-2021-1">Donald Trump didn't pardon himself. A massive tsunami of legal peril now awaits him.</a>But then Giuliani made a surprising new allegation, suggesting that the insurrection was organized by an "anonymous" person who he claimed was connected with <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/the-lincoln-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Lincoln Project,</a> a Republican group that opposes Trump.With raised eyebrows, Bannon asks Giuliani about who that person might be, saying: "OK, but who is it? Rudy, we can't say - yo. Yo!" Giuliani proceeds to go on a wild rant, repeating the baseless accusation as Bannon tries to interrupt him."Hang on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa-what are you saying 'working for the Lincoln Project?' Right-wing groups like who?" Bannon pressed again."I don't know if I can reveal his name," Giuliani responded. "Because we have that from anonymous sources. But he worked in the past for [Utah Sen. Mitt] Romney."Bannon then appears to laugh off Giuliani's response, before telling him: "This is why we're getting blown up all the time.""You can't throw a charge out there like that and say, 'Yeah, I've got a double-secret probation guy who I can't mention but he worked for Romney and he worked for the Lincoln Project,'" Bannon added.Watch the exchange below:Bannon has spent the last few weeks exploring baseless claims of widespread election fraud on his podcast "Bannon's War Room", which he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-apple-podcast-claim-millions-of-streams-2021-1">recently said has racked up 29 million streams.</a>The former Trump ally was also among those who hyped the January 6 protest, which turned violent and resulted in five deaths, including a police officer.YouTube barred Bannon three days after the incident. He was banned from Twitter in November 2020.Giuliani faces a $1.3 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, one of the country's largest voting-machine manufacturers, for his false allegations surrounding election fraud.In the interview with Bannon, Giuliani also said he could not defend Trump in the Senate trial because he was a witness who spoke at the rally.The Lincoln Project appeared to laugh off Giuliani's baseless theory, writing on Twitter that Trump's former lawyer went from calling for "trial by combat" to blaming them for the insurrection in a matter of weeks.Insider reached out to the Lincoln Project for comment.Three days after the incident, Bannon was barred from YouTube. He had been banned from Twitter since November 2020.Giuliani faces a $1.3 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, one of the country's largest voting-machine manufacturers, for his false allegations surrounding election fraud.In the interview with Bannon, Giuliani also said he could not defend Trump in the Senate trial because he was a witness who spoke at the rally.Insider reached out to the Lincoln Project for comment.

Steve Bannon scolds Rudy Giuliani after he falsely claimed the Republican Lincoln Project helped Capitol rioters

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="59920" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sacha-Baron-Cohen">Sacha Baron Cohen</keyword> <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/sacha-baron-cohen-save-democracy-chicago-7-borat-1234611886/">told IndieWire</a> that he would rather be anonymous like <keyword id="1058263" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Banksy">Banksy</keyword>. </li><li>The 49-year-old actor said that he only decided to return to comedy because he felt compelled to stop the rise of Trumpism.</li><li>"I didn't feel that I could look myself in the mirror if Trump had won, and I hadn't done everything I could to play my part," he said. </li></ul>Sacha Baron Cohen received the best reviews of his career for performances in <a href="https://www.insider.com/review-borat-2-sacha-baron-cohen-maria-bakalova-great-success-2020-10">"Borat 2</a>" and <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-review-oscars-2020-9#:~:text=The%20movie%20follows%20the%20trial,the%201968%20Democratic%20National%20Convention.">"The Trial of the Chicago 7,"</a> but he <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/sacha-baron-cohen-save-democracy-chicago-7-borat-1234611886/">told IndieWire</a> that he is uncomfortable with all the new attention and only returned to the big screen because he felt compelled to stop the rise of <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>."I would far prefer to be anonymous, to be more of a Banksy type," he said. "But I didn't feel that I could look myself in the mirror if Trump had won, and I hadn't done everything I could to play my part."<div type="image" title="borat 2 amazon prime" height="720" width="1280" msid="80484410" hostid="261"></div>Baron Cohen continued to explain that he knew he had to return to the big screen after reading the 2018 book "How Democracies Die," which made him think that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-worst-possible-president-coronavirus-george-floyd-protest-moment-2020-6">Donald Trump's behavior</a> was not just the antics of an eccentric man, but an attempt to threaten US democracy. "Trump was just following the playbook of how to transition a democracy into an authoritarian regime," he said. "He wasn't mad. That was what compelled me to make two political movies, to speak out as myself, and to deliver a speech as myself about the dangers of social media.""<keyword id="10080250" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="borat-2">Borat 2</keyword>" takes direct aim at the rise of Trumpism, and the film made headlines for months after it was released as audiences witnessed the film's <a href="https://www.insider.com/borat-2-rudy-giuliani-movie-main-target-2020-12">now-infamous Rudy Guliani prank</a>.The 49-year-old actor is currently an award season favorite for his performances in "<keyword id="984744" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Borat">Borat</keyword>" as well as his surprising dramatic turn as the activist Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin's political thriller "The Trial of the Chicago 7." If he were to be <a href="https://www.insider.com/borat-2-crucial-sacha-baron-cohen-oscar-win-2020-10">nominated for an Oscar</a>, it would be the first time the academy nominated one of his performances since the first "Borat" movie in 2007.

Sacha Baron Cohen says he'd prefer to be anonymous like Banksy but felt he had to do his part to stop Trump

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dozens of Republican politicians, conservative pundits, and <keyword id="3198980" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Trump-campaign">Trump campaign</keyword> officials have recently shared posts and voiced support for a social platform called <keyword id="9465142" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="parler">Parler</keyword>.</li><li>Parler, similar to social networks like Gab and MeWe, has advertised itself as a haven for free speech and protector of user rights.</li><li>The migration to Parler comes as Trump and <keyword id="66537" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Republicans">Republicans</keyword> decry Twitter and Facebook for censorship since the platforms started flagging and restricting a few of the president's policy-violating posts.</li><li>According to data Apptopia provided to Business Insider, the Parler app has around 1 million lifetime downloads, and had its biggest spike ever in daily installs on Wednesday — with 40,000 new downloads.</li></ul>Top Republicans and Trump campaign officials are hyping a social network that prides itself on free speech as an alternative to big platforms that consider to be censoring the president and right-wing voices.Conservative Twitter is being flooded with links to Parler, a platform calling itself a "non-biased free speech driven entity" that has seen more than 100,000 US downloads in the last week alone, according to app analytics data provided to Business Insider. Parler's popularity surge comes as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-facebook-twitter-feud-code-red-social-media-alternatives-campaign-2020-6">the Trump campaign reportedly weighs alternatives</a> to Twitter and Facebook for reaching supporters just four months before the presidential election.Figures like Eric Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump lawyer Rudy Guliani, and far-right personality Laura Loomer — who is banned from several major tech platforms — all have accounts on Parler. Dozens more Republican personalities are also encouraging their Twitter followings to abandon ship and follow them to a network they say is free from big tech's speech policing. In a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-campaign-weighs-alternatives-to-big-social-platforms-11593003602?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1mp;pos=1">recent interview with the Wall Street Journal</a>, Parler cofounder John Matze said, "It is not Parler's job to weigh in on political matters. We believe in free speech and fair elections. Period."In the past, Trump supporters and the far right alike have turned to platforms like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-quarantine-protesters-mewe-facebook-groups-conspiracy-theorists-social-media-2020-5">MeWe</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gab-is-back-online-and-users-are-already-posting-anti-semitic-views-2018-11">Gab</a>, and <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2019/11/8chan-8kun-white-supremacists-telegram-discord-facebook.html">8kun</a> (previously 8chan). Under the promise of free expression they say isn't afforded to them on mainstream platforms, users have joined these communities to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-quarantine-protesters-mewe-facebook-groups-conspiracy-theorists-social-media-2020-5">organize anti-quarantine protests</a> banned on Facebook and to more freely spout fringe views on white supremacy, conspiracy theories, and vaccinations.But it seems that Republicans' plea to their supporters to join Parler may be working: Parler currently sits at No. 2 on App Store's list of top News apps. According to data Sensor Tower has provided to Business Insider, Parler has seen a 246% increase in US downloads this week compared with a week prior. On Wednesday Parler saw the biggest number of daily installs it's ever had: Users downloaded the app an estimated 40,000 times in 24 hours, Apptopia told Business Insider. It's rare for a relatively small free-speech platform to get endorsements from some of the right's most beloved pundits and government officials. Republicans have advertised Parler as a worthy rival to Twitter in tweets promoting their usernames. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-facebook-twitter-feud-code-red-social-media-alternatives-campaign-2020-6">posted last week about</a> his Parler account, along with the words: "Hey @twitter, your days are numbered."Since it was launched in 2018, Parler has been downloaded an estimated 1 million times, according to Apptopia. The app has loomed in the background for years as a place for Trump supporters, but it gained a major uptick in users back in June 2019 after an influx of Saudi Arabians migrated over <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-saudi-politics/unhappy-at-twitter-thousands-of-saudis-crash-pro-trump-social-network-idUSKCN1TE32S">amid growing frustration with Twitter</a>.But compared with Twitter's 50 million US users and Facebook's 175 million US users, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-campaign-weighs-alternatives-to-big-social-platforms-11593003602?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1mp;pos=1">Parler's self-reported 1 million users</a> is relatively small. If the Trump campaign goes forward with shunning Big Tech and migrating its efforts to another platform, it could mean <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-facebook-twitter-feud-code-red-social-media-alternatives-campaign-2020-6">the team is forced to scramble</a> to find another way to reach the millions of voters and supporters found on those major networks. His campaign has reportedly already spent <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-campaign-weighs-alternatives-to-big-social-platforms-11593003602?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1mp;pos=1">nearly $20 million this year</a> on Facebook ads, and Twitter has long acted Trump's platform of choice — he's tweeted <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-twitter-finally-stood-up-trump-2020-6">more than 17,000 times</a> since taking office in 2016.Yet Trump's growing frustration with major social networks is palpable. Tech companies in recent weeks have taken steps to more explicitly monitor Donald Trump's content, which has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/technology/trump-twitter.html">angered Republicans</a> and the president's administration. Facebook, Twitter, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-stops-promoting-trump-account-discover-racial-violence-concerns-2020-6?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">Snapchat</a> have all taken actions to restrict some of the president's most problematic posts, which conservative officials and commentators have decried as censorship. Trump has even <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-shut-down-twitter-while-attacking-it-censorship-2020-5">threatened to "shut down" Twitter</a> if he could legally do so.Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-executive-order-social-media-explicitly-cites-personal-twitter-feud-2020-5">issued an executive order</a> targeting <keyword id="6354632" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="social-media">social media</keyword> companies after Twitter <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-fact-checks-false-trump-tweets-mail-in-voting-2020-5">fact-checked two of the president's tweets</a> in May about voting-by-mail. Since then, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-warning-trump-tweet-george-floyd-glorifying-violence-2020-5">Twitter slapped a warning label</a> on a Trump post for "glorifying violence" against police-brutality protesters, labeled a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-marks-donald-trump-tweet-as-manipulated-media-2020-6">Trump tweet mocking CNN</a> as "manipulated media" (and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-hid-trumps-tweet-mocking-cnn-marked-it-manipulated-media-2020-6">later removed it</a>), and restricted another tweet <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-marks-donald-trump-tweet-as-manipulated-media-2020-6">for "abusive behavior."</a>Facebook in the last week has removed a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removes-donald-trump-ad-nazi-symbol-violating-policy-2020-6">Trump campaign ad featuring a Nazi symbol</a> and Trump's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-deletes-trump-video-toddlers-copyright-2020-6">doctored CNN video</a>. Snapchat said earlier this month <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-stops-promoting-trump-account-discover-racial-violence-concerns-2020-6">it would stop promoting</a> Donald Trump's social media account on Discover, but Trump's account is still public on the platform.Although a few high-profile actions taken on Trump posts have angered the administration, the overwhelming majority of his posts on Facebook and Twitter have remained untouched. Facebook has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-no-action-trump-post-shooting-protestors-2020-5">refused to take action</a> on Trump's post threatening violence against protesters — the same post Twitter restricted — which caused a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-identity-problem-employee-walkout-turmoil-trump-analysis-2020-6">revolt among employees</a>. Critics have taken aim at Facebook for not doing enough and slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has repeatedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-says-free-speech-protects-trump-but-company-bans-activists-2020-6">defended the company's decision</a> not to censor posts in the name of free speech.

Top Trump officials and Republicans are encouraging followers to migrate to Parler, an alternative social network beloved by far-right agitators kicked off Facebook and Twitter

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Mark Cuban spent hours going after House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, for not launching investigations into Republican nominee Donald Trump.The billionaire businessman and prominent surrogate for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton posted a series of news articles and statements asking why Chaffetz wasn't investigating Trump.Chaffetz has notably&#xa0;been hinting at further investigations from his committee into Clinton, should she be elected, and he's been railing on the former secretary of state in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey's bombshell Friday letter to congressional leaders, including himself, outlining the potential for more "pertinent" emails pertaining to Clinton's use of a private email server.Chaffetz, just last month, said he could never endorse&#xa0;Trump after the "Access Hollywood" tape showed Trump boasting of being able to make unwanted sexual advances on women, saying he couldn't possibly defend that decision to his 15-year-old daughter. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/26/gop-rep-jason-chaffetz-says-his-conscience-wont-let-him-support-donald-trump-just-vote-for-him/" target="_blank">Less than 20 days later</a>, he announced he would&#xa0;vote for Trump.A representative for Chaffetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<h3>Read Cuban's tweets below:</h3><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/david-cay-johnston-donald-trump-tax-returns-election-president-2016-10">David Cay Johnston: 'There's very good reason to believe Trump's been engaged in tax fraud'</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="55djltNjE6R3GjRh7Z7AOTti393w4Z_u" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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