When Exactly Did Rudolph Giuliani Sell His Soul to the Devil?
Rudy before & after selling his soul to the Dark Side
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Someone please tell me: just when did "America's Mayor" sell his soul to the Devil?
A week ago, Rudolph Giuliani told an interviewer that Democrats, George Soros, and the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine were engaged in efforts to undermine Trump.
“Somehow she’ll go working for Soros, directly or indirectly. All I can tell you is the things I heard about her. Which is that her embassy was involved heavily in finding dirty information and creating it on people in the Trump campaign. That they were heavily involved in helping Soros (including getting a case dismissed that would hurt him), and (U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State) George Kent and her were the deputy.” (Note: A master of the Queen's English, Sir Rudy be not.)
"She" is former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Masha Yovanovich. The White House summarily yanked her from Kiev on May 20. It was a political hit job on a loyal career diplomat driven by fantabulist mischief-making in service to the Big Lie. Giuliani likewise targeted another career diplomat and Ukraine expert, George Kent. Not since 1950s McCarthyism have we seen such an assault of the government's public servants, which has already claimed the careers and reputations of FBI and DOJ officials.
This comes on the heels of the ex-NYC mayor's failed ploy to conjure up with Ukrainian leaders a fake plot alleging Hillary Clinton conspired with Kiev to manufacture dirt on Trump. Again, in cynical service to the Big Lie aimed at distracting the public's attention on Trump's corruption and obstruction of justice.
Giuliani has traveled the dark road from America's Mayor to Head Flack and Conspiracy Theorist-in-Chief for Donald Trump. Why? As with Lindsay Graham, William Barr, possibly Rod Rosenstein, the entire GOP Senate and the current line-up of fawning Cabinet toadies, has Rudy fallen under Trump's preternatural evil spell? Their brains devoured by the Trump virus, any integrity they had crushed by a galactic black hole of Trumpian malevolence? As former FBI director James Comey wrote recently, "Accomplished people lacking inner strength can't resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character . . . to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites."
These days the soulless Giuliani lies for Trump with the fluidity of the River Styx:
“Truth isn’t truth.”
Denying Trump knew about the payments to a porn star and ex-playmate, he said, “but even if he was told, he wouldn’t have remembered it.”
"If Roger Stone gave anybody a heads-up about WikiLeaks’ leaks, that’s not a crime."
“No one signed” a letter of intent for Donald Trump to build a Moscow project. CNN obtained the letter — signed by Trump.
Some speculate that 75-year old Giuliani has lost his mental acuity. Others posit that his gaffes and lies are deliberate and meant to cleverly shape the malleable minds of a credulous electorate. My take: it's hubris, the fourth deadly sin. Rudy never regained the glory of being America's Mayor. He missed the attention and adulation. He's jaded by money and narcissism. He's a deteriorating codger who pathetically struggles to defy mortality and faded fame - even vainly dying his remaining hair. He prostrated himself before Trump in return for the all-embracing glare of the TV cameras. And, bite by bite, the Dark Lord has eaten his soul.
Perhaps - just perhaps, in the furthest recesses of his aging mind - a dim glow of conscience tugs at him, leading him to sense pangs of regret as the first impeachment hearings commence and he is fully exposed for the old fool he is. And will recall that which Mephistopheles told Faustus:
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?