Former President Donald Trump rejected the advice of his campaign advisers on the eve of the 2020 election and instead relied on the lawyer of his former personal lawyer, “a seemingly drunk” Rudy Giuliani, said MP Liz Cheney. The testimony will show that Trump followed Giuliani’s recommendation “to just claim that he won and insist on stopping the vote count, to falsely claim that everything was a scam,” Cheney said Monday at the second round of voting. a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. The commission is set to unveil a seven-party plan to overthrow Trump in the 2020 election. “He falsely told the American people that the election was not legal,” Cheney said. In his words, you mention, “A big scam.” “Millions of Americans believed in him.” Giuliani is among Trumpworld members who virtually met with committee officials, according to exhibits at Monday’s hearing. Much has been written about Giuliani’s allegations of alcohol consumption, which Giuliani told POLITICO in 2018 were “extremely offensive”. He admitted to being a social drinker, but said he did not drink alcohol early in the day. “I do not drink for lunch,” he told POLITICO at the time. “I can have a drink for dinner. I like to drink with cigars.” Trump’s advisers, however, believed he was usually drunk and almost old, according to Michael Wolff’s “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency.” “Giuliani, many around Trump believed, was always buzzing, if not, with the phrase that Steve Bannon made famous in Trump’s White House, desperately ‘in the murmur tank,’” Wolf wrote in his book. “Many believed he had the beginnings of old age: focus problems, memory problems, simple logic failures. There was a huge disorganization of documents and archives and technological glitches.” Last year, federal agents searched the home and office of Giuliani, who tried to dig up dirt from Ukrainian officials of the Biden family. The former federal prosecutor, mayor of New York and Republican candidate for the presidency is now facing professional ethics charges from the District of Columbia Bar for allegedly promoting unfounded voters in Pennsylvania. His legal license has been suspended in New York and the District of Columbia.
