The Daily Populous Wednesday May 22nd, 2024 day edition
Authored by nymag.com and submitted by drtolmn69

Despite his stint running a cybersecurity-consulting company, Rudy Giuliani has never been that great about taking care of his own cybersecurity: He has been known to butt-dial reporters and leave his phones behind in cars. But on Tuesday, the 79-year-old may have had his most embarrassing tech moment yet. As he was being arraigned (via video link) for allegedly conspiring to overturn the election results in Arizona, Giuliani committed the early-pandemic faux pas of going to the bathroom without muting himself.

Oh my. Rudy Giuliani forgot to turn off his zoom mic when he went to go pee during his arraignment

pic.twitter.com/lON9InoAIV — Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 21, 2024

For those of you who understandably choose not to watch this video, Giuliani signs off from the call just before you can hear a stream of liquid hitting water.

“Is that me?” Giuliani asks. The host of the call answers in the affirmative.

There are a lot of jokes about livestreams to be made here, but we will avoid them for the moment because of Giuliani’s sorry state. Aside from being extremely broke, he is facing charges of making false statements and soliciting false testimony in Georgia as part of his alleged role in helping the Trump campaign overturn election results there. As he left his birthday party in Florida on Friday night, he was served an indictment for his alleged role in the Arizona election plot, and he faces conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges in the state. (He has pleaded not guilty in all cases.) Perhaps, though, Giuliani will scare up some funds to pay his own lawyers with his latest venture: selling coffee via surreal QVC-style ads.

MettaNC on May 22nd, 2024 at 03:36 UTC »

He could have simply done nothing for the rest of his life after 2001 and he would have had buildings and an airport named after him. Yet he chose to light his reputation on fire.

love_is_an_action on May 22nd, 2024 at 01:56 UTC »

This guy's life is made up of all of the embarrassing scenes from the Naked Gun series, with none of the heart or heroics.

FewWatermelonlesson0 on May 22nd, 2024 at 01:44 UTC »

This dude is a trapped in a never ending Mr. Bean sketch.