Rudy Giuliani’s fantasies of fraud: There’s a pattern throughout his political career

By Jacob Gross
New York Daily News

Following the presidential election, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hard at work spearheading Donald Trump’s floundering attempts to disqualify millions of ballots based on evidence-free voter fraud claims. In lieu of proof, Giuliani implored Pennsylvania lawmakers last week to, in the words of the Daily News, to “trust his gut feeling that all 682,770 mail-in ballots cast in the state’s Democrat-heavy Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties are fraudulent.”

As Giuliani himself put it, “I know crooks really well,” he said. “You give them an inch and they take a mile, and you give them a mile and they take your whole country.”

Trusting anyone’s hunch is not a compelling argument to overturn an election, but Giuliani in particular does not deserve such an extraordinary benefit of the doubt. Because he has a long history of making unsubstantiated voter fraud accusations, ever since his first race for office. Moreover, Giuliani has faced his own accusations of election improprieties, including some he personally confirmed.