Giuliani Fires Back at Joe Scarborough: I’m ‘More Aware and Intelligent’ Than He Is

Rudy Giuliani responded tonight to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough calling him erratic and, well, a few other things.

On Tuesday morning, Scarborough said on air, of President Trump‘s lawyer, ” Everybody around Donald Trump said [Giuliani] was drinking too much. Donald Trump suggested as much. That was two years ago. And the fact that Donald Trump brought this guy in two years later despite his own reservations about him, almost two years ago, that’s not any, it’s not 3D chess. That’s not even checkers, That’s a monkey throwing poo against the wall and it doesn’t usually turn out well.”

Giuliani spoke to Politico to refute claims that he’s erratic, and he had some choice words for Scarborough in particular:

“None of that is true,” Giuliani said of Scarborough’s remarks in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “I’m not sleeping now. I’m in Dallas. I’m wide awake. I’ve handled numerous cases including some sensitive cyber matters. I’m a lot more aware and intelligent than Joe has ever been and a lot more accomplished. Joe hasn’t been knighted by the Queen of England. He hasn’t run a U.S. attorney’s office, much less a city that he turned around or went through 9/11.”

Giuliani denied that he’s a big drinker, adding, “I’m not drinking for lunch. I may have a drink for dinner. I like to drink with cigars.”

Scarborough recently wrote a column titled “Rudy Giuliani goes from ‘America’s Mayor’ to Trump’s chump.”

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