Commentary | Living like Rudy: Giuliani is the face of MAGA “freedom” – By Amanda Marcotte (Salon) / May 17, 2023
Shielding debauched racists is exactly why there’s so much right-wing whining about “cancel culture”
It’s time to count down to the “cancel culture” complaints: Rudy Giuliani has been sued for sexual abuse.
In a case that is both somehow stomach-churning and completely unsurprising, Noelle Dunphy claims she was hired in 2019 with a promised salary of $1 million a year for “business development work,” but soon discovered that Giuliani expected lots of sex as part of the deal. She is accusing the former New York City mayor, who found a second career as a lead attorney in Donald Trump’s 2020 coup attempt, of multiple forms of rape and sexual harassment.
The nearly 70-page complaint is overwhelming in its descriptions of Giuliani’s depravity, though all of it is completely believable in light of Giulilani’s already known and often quite public bad behavior. On top of the relentless sexual abuse, she also describes him as constantly drunk and spewing invective about women, people of color, and Jews. She also portrays him as thoroughly corrupt, offering to sell pardons from Trump for $2 million a pop, and discussing their plans for an attempted coup long before Trump lost the election. Throughout all this, Dunphy claims Giuliani never did pay her what was promised.
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