I continue to be aghast at how a man who was so honored and respected twenty years ago has done everything short of molesting farm animals in public to lose all that respect. The latest is Rudy Giuliani's admission that much of the "evidence" that he claimed in public to have of voting fraud came from that most reliable of sources — some guy on the Internet. And that it was evidence that Mr. Giuliani deliberately did not fact-check. I would assume the reason he didn't fact-check was that he really didn't care if it was true or not…and if he found out for sure it was false, he might feel a little worse about spreading it.
Among those who still insist Trump won the election, there seems to be no awareness that guys like Giuliani were fighting with two kinds of evidence: The kind that would stand up to scrutiny in a court of law and the kind they knew wouldn't. The latter kind was disseminated to rally the public, keep Trump's followers mad and behind him, and to get donations. This was the kind they rarely presented in court lest the lawyers be laughed-at or even disbarred. What little they did present in court was pretty feeble.
Here's Brett Bachman explaining about a smear that Rudy spread about an employee at Dominion Voting Systems…and don't take Mr. Bachman's word for all this. You can read the transcript of the deposition and it's pretty amazing, especially when you remember that Rudy Giuliani was supposed to be a very accomplished (and expensive) attorney.