Jack Smith Court Filings Reveal Rudy Giuliani Fake Electors Scheme TextsSearchSubscribeMy BookmarksEntertainmentStyleFoodDrinksSportsLifestyleNews & PoliticsArchiveNewsletterAbout UsFollowOther EditionsYour Privacy ChoicesPrivacy NoticeTerms Of UseSkip to ContentEntertainmentStyleLifestyleShoppingNews & PoliticsSubscribesign inSearchSeth Rogen is the BossThe Best Button-Down EverBest Sketches From SNL50'The White Lotus' Is BackBest Single Blade RazorsNewsPolitics With Charles P. PierceLet’s Hear It for Rudy Giuliani, America’s Dumbest ConspiratorLet’s Hear It for Rudy Giuliani, America’s Dumbest ConspiratorThese guys just couldn’t stop texting about fake electors, could they? By Charles P. PiercePublished: Oct 04, 2024 3:47 PM EDTSave ArticleMichael M. Santiago//Getty ImagesSome more delectable crudités from Jack Smith’s  A Child’s Garden of Big Presidential Crimes.(1) Some shebeen regulars reminded me that before saying his ultimate “No!” Mike Pence consulted a number of people, trying to find a way to (maybe) say yes. And that it was former vice president Dan Quayle who consoled Pence by telling him, “Dude, there’s no way,” and that it was conservative judge J. Michael Luttig who whip-stiffened Pence’s spine by telling him, “Oh, hell, f*ck, NO!” They, too, have freedom of the shebeen for life.(2) Let’s hear another big cheer for Rudy Giuliani, who managed to go from  America’s toughest prosecutor to America’s Dumbest Conspirator. In December 2020, Giuliani was in Michigan, trying to get a fake-electors scheme under way there. According to Smith’s report, Giuliani texted to an unidentified someone:So I need you to pass a joint resolution from the legislature that states the election is in dispute, there’s an ongoing investigation by the legislature, and the Electors sent by Governor Whitmer are not the official electors of the state of Michigan and do not fall within the Safe Harbor deadline under Michigan law.Alas for crime, Giuliani entered the wrong number into his phone and so the text went into the ether, only to be plucked by Smith and his team. Oh, Rudy, you could have spent the rest of your life being applauded in banquet halls from coast to coast. You could have been buried in plaques and accolades. The first line in your obit would be that you were the Mayor of America at a time of national trauma. Instead, you threw all that away for...this. What doth it profit a man to gain absolute ruin but lose his soul?Related StoryElection Deniers Are All Over The BallotWatch Next Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowPolitics With Charles P. PierceFederal Workers Don’t Exactly Grow on TreesMexico Might Sue Google Over “Gulf of America”How Will SCOTUS Respond to This Trump Request?DOGE’s Latest IRS Maneuver Is, Flatly, AppallingAdvertisement - Continue Reading BelowThese Book Bans Sure Seem Effective!The Trump Administration Can’t Lie Out of ThisWhat in the Mitch McConnell Is Going On?!Wing Nuts in Idaho Are More Wing-Nutty Than EverElon Musk Has Dealt the CFPB a Dishonorable DeathDemocrats Dunked on Marjorie Taylor GreeneWell, That Was Transcendentally WeirdSecret FBI Files Tied to JFK’s Assassination FoundAdvertisement - Continue Reading BelowNewsletterAbout UsMedia KitPress RoomContact UsCommunity GuidelinesAdvertise OnlineCustomer ServiceSubscribeOther Hearst SubscriptionsEvents &amp; PromotionsGiveawaysA Part of Hearst Digital MediaWe may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back.©2025 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Privacy NoticeCA Notice at CollectionYour CA Privacy Rights/Shine the LightDAA Industry Opt OutTerms of UseSite MapYour Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads
And a notable mention to Sidney Powell, who comes in a strong second.