Edition · June 24, 2021

June 24, 2021: Trump’s fixer gets hit, again

A judge sidelined Rudy Giuliani for lying in service of Trump’s election fantasy, while the broader Trump operation kept advertising the same toxic brand of consequences.

June 24 brought a clean, ugly snapshot of the Trump ecosystem: the man who spent months laundering the former president’s 2020 defeat through courts and microphones got suspended from practicing law in New York, and the reason was exactly what you’d expect — false election claims deployed in service of Trump. The day also underscored how the ex-president’s legal and political orbit was still living inside the wreckage of January 6, with institutional pushback arriving not as one grand reckoning but as a series of smaller humiliations that accumulate into a bigger problem.

Closing take

The Trump world screwup here wasn’t subtle: every time one of its loyal enablers gets sanctioned for making false claims, it drags the whole operation a little deeper into the same moral and legal mud. June 24 was one more reminder that the consequences were not fading — they were metastasizing.

Ranked by how bad the fuckup was

5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.

Story

Rudy Giuliani Gets Suspended for Trump’s Big Lie Routine

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

A New York appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law, saying there was uncontroverted evidence he had made false and misleading statements while trying to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss. It was a direct institutional rebuke to the former president’s most prominent post-election fixer, and it landed as a fresh embarrassment for Trump’s broader effort to keep the lie alive.

Open story + comments