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Donald Trump: An incumbent US president tries to instigate a coup
Photo: CARLOS BARRIA / REUTERS
If the gritty finale of the Trump era has an antihero, it's Rudy Giuliani.
Trump's lawyer has taken on the role of Rasputin in the final act, which is now being played, an illusionist and blender who promises the ruler the greatest triumphs while the palace has long been in flames.
For weeks Giuliani has been claiming that his client was the victim of a conspiracy and that his election was stolen.
Last week, the lawyer said at a press conference that he had collected evidence of "massive fraud" in key states.
While he was talking himself into a rage, drops of brown sweat ran down his temples, it looked like his face would melt on the open stage, like a badly made-up actor in a zombie movie.
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Trump attorney Giuliani at a news conference in Washington on November 19
Photo: Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS
It was not the first time that the production got stuck with Operation Election Fraud, which the president orchestrates badly.
Just a few days after the election, Trump announced that his lawyer would make a big appearance at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia.
Apparently there were voting problems.
In the end, Giuliani was not in the lobby of a luxury hotel, but in front of a garage door for the horticultural company "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" outside of Philadelphia, between a crematorium and a store for pornography.
While half the nation made fun of it, Giuliani railed against the Democrats and their alleged conspiracy.
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