Two Peas In A Putsch

FOTP Monday . . . for January 13th, 2025

(The photo was from an event in NYC in 2000 called The Inner Circle Show, which was held by local news organizations to poke fun at the N.Y.C. mayor and other local political figures. They were so much in love back then.)

In New York City last week, in two courthouses minutes away from each other, two politicians, two horrors inexorably linked, had business to attend to. For one it went quite well, better than he, even in his megalomania, could have expected, especially if he hadn’t received such good news on November 5th; for the other, it was a reminder, as if he needed one, that when you lie down with this particular dog, you wake up alone and in bankruptcy.

On Monday, the reverse Midas touch of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on display at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. District Court House - Southern District of New York at 500 Pearl Street

From PBS

A federal judge in New York City on Monday said that Rudy Giuliani was in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers. Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled after hearing Giuliani testify for a second day at a contempt hearing called after lawyers for the election workers said the former New York City mayor had failed to properly comply with evidence production requests over the last few months.

On Friday, two-tenths of a mile away, at the New York State Supreme Court at 100 Centre Street, former and future U.S. President Donald Trump, who wasn’t even required to show up for his sentencing, such as it was, on 34 felony convictions — a concession afforded to precisely no other felons — reminded the rest of us, if we needed one, that some men in this country are not only above the law, they get to to treat it like a backyard piñata.