Aseahawkfan wrote:Why wouldn't it? I doubt Rudy would debase himself this way unless the leader he was following and protecting straight into the gutter had some control over his mind. Every time Trump wanted him to, Rudy would go on TV and make some comments in support of his master often looking like a total idiot and liar.
I agree that Trump had Giuliani wrapped around his little finger and that he made stupid, idiotic statements at his behest, but why? It's hard for me to believe that it's all due to the psychological influence of a single, charismatic figure. Giuliani appeared to me to be mentally stronger than that. Most people that fall under that kind of influence, religious or otherwise, have something else going on, whether it be substance abuse, some type of traumatic event like rape, is insecure, or has a history of mental illness. One of my former neighbors falls into that category. She's 68 years old, went through a divorce, had to sell her house, and is now in a mental crisis center. Huge Trump supporter, anti vaxxer, extremely religious, claims to have had conversations with dead people, etc. That's the type of person I think that can be influenced by Trump, not someone like Giuliani who was once a tough as nails prosecutor.
Remember Jim Jones and the People's Temple, aka Jonestown? That's what these people that have fallen into Trump's orbit reminds me of, people with minds that are already subject to manipulation. Jim Jones was offering people that were already "on the bubble" an alternate lifestyle, told them what they wanted to hear, and they literally bellied up to the Kool-Aid stand. Giuliani doesn't fit that pattern.
Here is a man in Rudy G. that has had a very long and dignified career in both the legal profession as well as in politics and suddenly he's licking the boots of a man that is such a moron that he thinks that Paris is in Germany and that the Mexican border extends to Colorado? I think that there has to be something more than a person's charisma that drives them into someone else's world hook, line, and sinker.