Rudy Giuliani is missing.
Well, sort of.
He’s missing for the purpose of being served with another indictment. A Grand Jury in Arizona voted to charge the former Mayor of NYC for his involvement in alleged election crimes, but they haven’t been able to locate him to serve the papers.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that Arizona prosecutors were struggling to serve Giuliani, who they’d been unable to find. The same report cited a person close to Giuliani describing the man who was once personal attorney to the then-president of the United States, as keeping a busy schedule and not slowing down to be served.
Giuliani still hasn’t been served, according to most recent reports, and time is running out to formally notify him that he needs to be in court on May 21st — next Tuesday.
If anyone was thinking about calling for a well check, though, as of Thursday night, at least, Giuliani was hale and hearty enough to post a new episode of his podcast.
Giuliani, as usual, spent a few hours ranting about all the things he thinks are unfair in the world, especially those that hurt wealthy and powerful men such as himself and Donald Trump, but he opened with an announcement of his location.
“Tonight we are in Palm Beach, and keeping up with all the developments and all the things that uh, we try to dig out, that um, we’re afraid you’re not gonna get from, uh, well, from the phony press that we have in this country and the massive, the massive censorship so that things that are important aren’t reported to you.”
Conspiracy theories aside, Giuliani just narrowed it down for the prosecution: Palm Beach, Florida. He owns a condo there, though he won’t for long, if his creditors have their way. They’ve been asking a judge to force him to sell, so that they can get some of the money they’re owed in his bankruptcy proceedings.
Giuliani also doesn’t seem to fear that his lies about the 2020 election are going to bring about any more severe consequences, either. He took time out of the massage to reiterate old lies, although perhaps he got confused about what, exactly, he was supposed to claim. At one point, he declared:
“Had they not obviously manipulated the vote in the states in which they stopped counting when Trump was ahead, and then resumed counting, in many cases, in private, and counted until Biden won, those Ukrainian people would be alive today.”
The former attorney seemed to be attempting to cite false and unsupported claims that the election was “stolen,” but his words suggest that this was done by, well, counting all the votes. Along the way he even seems to reference Trump’s demands to “stop the count” while he was ahead!
Giuliani, of course, knows that absentee ballots, which are counted last in many districts, skew more heavily towards Democratic candidates, and that efforts to stop absentee ballots from being counted would have helped Trump.
He also dropped a few hints about where he’ll be spending the weekend, if Arizona prosecutors hope to find him. He announced at the end of the podcast that he’s expecting a pre-birthday event on Friday, that he says was supposed to be a surprise. Giuliani didn’t say where the event will be, but he’s mighty close to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
His birthday is May 28th, but perhaps Giuliani’s inner circle can’t be certain he won’t be in jail for contempt of court by then, since he’s keeping the judge in his bankruptcy case frustrated and has given no sign he intends to show up for court next week in Arizona, either.
And his legal troubles were clearly on his mind as he closed the show, complaining that he’s been indicted in Georgia for conspiracy with “15 or 16 people…I conspired with them but I don’t know ‘em!”
Certainly he knows at least a few of the total 19 (including himself) who were indicted — he was in White House meetings with Donald Trump, and held press conferences with Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
He’ll be on the air at 3pm eastern on Friday, he reminded his audience — so perhaps that would be a convenient time for Arizona to serve him with his summons.