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Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. attorney for the S…
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Born 28 May 1944 · Q212648
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2026· 19 entries
“And half the time I felt like I shouldn”
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“ample record ... of Giuliani”
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“s election and, after his election, to remove him via contrived charges. Giuliani claimed the witnesses had evidence of the Biden family”
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“d heard that large fees were being offered, he did not work on clemency cases, saying”
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“Some people thought it was racist – I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother ... This isn”
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Published video “Ukraine War: Putin's Losing Gamble”.
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Published video “Fauci's Lies Exposed”.
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Published video “America's Mayor Live (995): Iran Targeting Ships in Unprovoked Attacks in Strait of Hormuz, UAE Says”.
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Published video “America's Mayor Live (995): August 14, 2026”.
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Published video “America's Mayor Live (994): U.S. Military Launches New Drone Unit, "Task Force Falcon Strike"”.
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Published video “America's Mayor Live (993): President Trump says U.S. Controls Strait of Hormuz and Might "Keep It"”.
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Published video “STEVE GRUBER: America's Biggest Threats include China, Communism, The Deep State”.
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Published video “America's Mayor Live (992): U.S. and Iran close to a "Peace Arrangement or a Deal," Pakistan Says”.
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Published video “America's Mayor Live (991): President Trump Says the U.S. Controls the Strait of Hormuz, "100%"”.
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom (2026).
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The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani breathing on his own after being hospitalized for pneumonia
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The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani hospitalised in ‘critical but stable’ condition
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In early May 2026, Giuliani was hospitalized with pneumonia.
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2025· 9 entries
The Guardian: Trump pardons Giuliani, Meadows and others over plot to steal 2020 election
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The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani and Dominion settle $1.3bn defamation suit over election lies
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “An image shows Rudy Giuliani's car after an August 2025 crash” False.
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The Guardian: Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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fact checker rated the claim “An account named Vince Langman posted the photo on X with the caption, “This is a photograph of the car accident 81-year-old Rudy Giuliani was in today.”” misleading.
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The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani hospitalized after car accident in New Hampshire
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The Guardian: Giuliani says he has settled defamation dispute and will keep Florida condo
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The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani found to be in contempt of court again for 2020 election lies
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The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani found in contempt of court over response to defamation judgment
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2024· 8 entries
The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani tells judge he can’t pay his bills in courtroom outburst
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Was disbarred in the District of Columbia under reciprocal discipline
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His bankruptcy case was dismissed, and he was not allowed to file for bankruptcy again for one year
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Was disbarred in the state of New York
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USA Today rated the claim “Photo shows a US marshal who served Rudy Giuliani with indictment notice” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Social media posts circulating in May 2024 show an authentic quote from Rudy Giuliani's daughter, who urged people to vote for Joe Biden, and called Donald Trump's administration "toxic."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “All major news outlets were sent a sex tape involving Rudy Giuliani, according to a March 2024 post.” Labeled Satire.
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When Giuliani appeared in court to discuss his bankruptcy case, he told a U
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2023· 2 entries
The Washington Post rated the claim “Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and hi…” False.
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Giuliani lost a $148-million defamation lawsuit for his false claims about two election workers in Georgia, and unsuccessfully attempted to declare bankruptcy; he later reached a settlement to pay damages awarded to the
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2022· 1 entry
Agreeing to withhold forty for which Giuliani had asserted "privilege and/or highly personal" status and rejecting 37 such assertions
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2021· 9 entries
Fox News told Giuliani that neither he nor his son Andrew would be allowed on their network for nearly three months
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CNN uncovered audio of a 2019 call, stating that "Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden
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PolitiFact rated the claim “"Absent from the news — Dominion lost their lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell."” False.
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At Giuliani's office and Upper East Side apartment, seizing his electronic devices
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Smartmatic sued Giuliani, Fox News and some of its hosts, and Powell, accusing them of engaging in a "disinformation campaign" against the company; the company sought $2
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That the SDNY had requested a search warrant of Giuliani's electronic records in summer 2020, but were met with resistance from political appointees in the Washington headquarters, ostensibly because the election was nea
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“s iCloud account beginning in late 2019, later arguing to a judge that the search was illegal and so the raid on Giuliani”
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That the SDNY was scrutinizing Giuliani's association with Firtash in efforts to discredit the Bidens, and efforts to lobby the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs
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Found Ukrainian politician Andrii Derkach was among proxies of Russian intelligence who promoted and laundered misleading or unsubstantiated narratives about Biden "to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent
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2020· 7 entries
With the judge citing "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations", which were "unsupported by evidence"
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Claimed: ““Now, what happened on election night? He [Trump] was ahead by 800,000 votes in Pennsylvania. Impossible to catch up, unless you’re cheating, and same thing in Michigan, Wisconsin."” — rated Four Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Election lost: 2020 election lawsuits.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Rudy Giuliani "bought $2M in shares of Novartis, a primary supplier of hydroxychloroquine" in early February.” False.
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AP News rated the claim “Photo shows Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, at Eric Trump’s birthday party 25 years ago.” False.
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Campaign: 2020 election lawsuits.
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“s federal court filings regarding the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania contained baseless claims in favor of Trump. On December 15, 2022, after a week-long hearing, the D.C. Bar Disciplinary Counsel recommended Giuliani be disbarred for violating rules of professional conduct by making false election fraud claims and trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania. The counsel”
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2019· 4 entries
The House Intelligence Committee's report included phone records, including calls made by Giuliani between April and August 2019
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Giuliani sent a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, informing him of three witnesses from Ukraine who Giuliani said had direct evidence of Democratic criminal conspiracy with Ukr
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Steve Linick, the State Department's inspector general, delivered a packet of apparent disinformation regarding President Biden and former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, to Capitol Hill
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Giuliani was a central figure in the Trump–Ukraine scandal
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded Doublespeak Award (2018).
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“our recollection keeps changing”
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“more rumor than anything else”
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2017· 1 entry
The Justice Department characterized him as in the "upper echelon of Russian organized crime"
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2016· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was suspended from Twitter after sending messages about Pizzagate.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Democrats have filed treason charges against President-elect Donald Trump, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Rudy Giuliani.” False.
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Trump announced that Giuliani had removed his name from consideration for any Cabinet post
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“meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about Hillary Clinton”
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2015· 1 entry
“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president Obama loves America ... He doesn”
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2014· 1 entry
It was revealed by former Sicilian Mafia member and informant Rosario Naimo that Salvatore Riina, a notorious Sicilian Mafia leader, had ordered a murder contract on Giuliani during the mid-1980s
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2011· 1 entry
Giuliani announced that he was not running for president
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Łódź (2010).
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And for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, Giuliani turned his focus to his business firms
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Giuliani spoke in support of the removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) from the U
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2009· 3 entries
Giuliani announced that he would not seek any office in 2010, saying "The main reason has to do with my two enterprises: Bracewell & Giuliani and Giuliani Partners
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“The main reason has to do with my two enterprises: Bracewell & Giuliani and Giuliani Partners. I”
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Giuliani said the Obama administration and U
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2008· 3 entries
Election lost: 2008 presidential election.
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Giuliani finished a distant third in the Florida result with 15 percent of the vote, trailing McCain and Romney
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Campaign: 2008 presidential election.
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2007· 3 entries
Giuliani's campaign received an endorsement from evangelist, Christian Broadcasting Network founder, and past presidential candidate Pat Robertson
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About his 1997 decision to locate the command center at the World Trade Center
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Leaders of the Five Families voted in late 1986 on whether to issue a contract for Giuliani's death
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2006· 1 entry
Giuliani started a website called Solutions America to help elect Republican candidates
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2005· 1 entry
Joined a law firm, renamed Bracewell & Giuliani
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by University of Rhode Island (2003).
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2002· 3 entries
Won Medal of Heroism (2002).
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Giuliani founded a security consulting business, Giuliani Partners, and acquired, but later sold, an investment banking firm, Giuliani Capital Advisors
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“as often, if not more, than most workers ... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I”
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2001· 6 entries
Time magazine named Giuliani its Person of the Year for 2001
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Awarded Bambi Award (2001).
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Awarded Time Person of the Year (2001).
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“s Day 2001 and that Hanover had prevented this visit. Giuliani and Hanover finally settled their divorce case in July 2002 after his mayoralty had ended, with Giuliani paying Hanover a $6.8 million settlement and granting her custody of their children. Giuliani married Nathan on May 24, 2003, and gained a stepdaughter, Whitney. It was also Nathan”
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Was called "America's mayor" and was named Time Person of the Year for 2001
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Time magazine called this "case of cases" possibly "the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943", and quoted Giuliani's stated
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2000· 3 entries
Campaign: 2000 U.S. Senate election.
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Ran against First Lady Hillary Clinton for a U
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Nineteen years later, in April 2000, Giuliani, then aged 55, was diagnosed with prostate cancer following a prostate biopsy, after an elevated screening PSA.
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1998· 3 entries
Won Richard A. Cook Gold Medal (1998).
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Codified local law by granting all city employees equal benefits for their domestic partners
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To the location of the city's emergency command center at the Trade Center site
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1997· 1 entry
Was Democratic Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger, who had beaten Al Sharpton in the September 9, 1997, Democratic primary
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1995· 1 entry
This represented the first time the positions of mayor and governor were held simultaneously by Republicans since John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: Mayor of New York City (1994–2001).
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1993· 1 entry
And was reelected in 1997, campaigning on a "tough on crime" platform
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1991· 1 entry
Under Dinkins, three years before Giuliani took office
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1989· 2 entries
Giuliani charged Milken under the RICO Act with 98 counts of racketeering and fraud
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When he attempted to unseat three-term incumbent Ed Koch
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1988· 1 entry
That he "only became a Republican after he began to get all these jobs from them
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1984· 7 entries
“I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights.”
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“In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.”
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“There are many qualities that make a great leader but having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.”
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“When you confront a problem, you begin to solve it.”
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“Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. … History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.”
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“It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”
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“Leaders must be optimists. Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true freedom.”
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1983· 2 entries
Giuliani was appointed to be U
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Career landmark: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1983–1989).
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Associate Attorney General (1981–1983).
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1970· 1 entry
Giuliani was reclassified 1-A but received a high 308 draft lottery number and was not called up for service
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1968· 1 entry
Was classified 1-A (available for military service), but in 1969 he was reclassified 2-A (essential civilian) as Judge MacMahon's law clerk
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1944· 3 entries
In the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City, which at the time of his birth was a largely Italian American enclave of Brooklyn
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Born 1944-05-28.
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“, CNBC To all those patriots challenging the fraudulent election ...You are on the right side of the law and history. via a Twitter tweet posted when rioters stormed the halls of Congress on January 6, 2021 Over the next 10 days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent. If we”
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1943· 1 entry
“Our approach is to wipe out the five families.”
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