‘America’s mayor’ is now a punchline, fundraising tool and political shield for Joe Biden.
With Rudy Giuliani emerging as the face of Donald Trump’s star-crossed operation to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine, the former vice president is using the former New York mayor-turned-presidential-fixer in a different capacity — as a foil in his own effort to fight back against Trump’s relentless attacks.
The Ukraine scheme has backfired so badly that the president faces impeachment and two Giuliani associates were federally indicted last week and accused of hatching illegal campaign finance scheme connected to the plan.
Biden last week began framing Giuliani — and, by proxy, the president — as a corrupt, bungling leader of a gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Then came the arrests that reinforced Biden’s Giuliani strategy.