The Weekly | How Did Rudy Giuliani Get Here? - The New York Times

Episode 15: ‘Rudy! Rudy?’

Producer/Director John Marks

The man once hailed as “America’s Mayor” is now at the center of the most confounding political story of the Trump presidency. Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials on behalf of President Trump has helped prompt the impeachment inquiry that may tarnish both men.

It’s a disquieting late act in Giuliani’s more than four decades in public life that has many people asking how a tumultuous political career that at times appeared transcendent has become a seemingly repetitive series of angry cable news appearances.

Giuliani burst on the public stage as an aggressive prosecutor who used the same tactics to take down New York’s notorious mafia bosses as he did Wall Street’s felonious financiers. He earned top billing as a zero-tolerance mayor who cleaned up Gotham as he inflamed racial tensions. And when the city — and the country — came under terrorist attack, he stepped into his defining role as “America’s Mayor” by comforting the grief stricken and rallying the faithful.

“The Weekly” examines his career and we ask New York Times reporters who observed the former New York mayor at every turn: How did Rudy Giuliani get here?

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Featured Reporters

Nearly a dozen Times reporters who covered Giuliani as mayor, presidential candidate, and high-priced conservative for hire contributed to this episode of “The Weekly.” They include columnists Dan Barry, Jim Dwyerand James B. Stewart; Metro reporters William K. Rashbaum and Sarah Maslin Nir; Jonathan Mahler, a staff writer for The Times Magazine; correspondents in Washington Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt and Kenneth P. Vogel; and Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington bureau chief.

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Highlights of Rudy Giuliani’s Life in Politics

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Rudolph W. Giuliani at a Harlem church a day after the 1993 mayoral election.CreditAndrea Mohin/The New York Times

• With a reputation as one of the country’s fiercest prosecutors, Giuliani won his second bid for mayor of New York in 1993, ousting David Dinkins and becoming the first Republican elected to lead the city since John V. Lindsay in 1965.

• Giuliani set out to curb crime and make New York more livable. Though he lowered crime rates and helped clean up the city, his policing methods inflamed racial tensions and his two terms in office were marred by episodes of police brutality.

• He decided to run in 2000 for U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton in a battle of political heavyweights. But Giuliani’s campaign was tumultuous: political missteps, the dissolution of his marriage after reports of an affair, and a diagnosis of prostate cancer. He bowed out less than six months before Election Day.

• On his way out of City Hall in 2001, Giuliani led New Yorkers through the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks — reassuring a traumatized city, exuding compassion and resolve, and earning the nickname “America’s Mayor.”

• After an impressive start to his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Giuliani eventually flamed out after poor finishes in early primary states.

• Out of politics, the former mayor earned a fortune in private practice, making speeches, and lobbying and advising many corporate and foreign clients. He represented Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, as well as the government of Qatar, and he has given paid speeches to an Iranian opposition group once on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.

• When President Trump needed a new lawyer to represent him in the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III — and on cable TV — he hired his longtime friend Giuliani.

• Since a whistle-blower complaint about Trump’s efforts to have the government of Ukraine investigate a political rival prompted an impeachment inquiry, Giuliani’s role as Trump’s surrogate has come under new scrutiny.

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Senior Story Editors Dan Barry, Liz O. Baylen, and Liz Day
Director of Photography Robert Barocci
Video Editors Geoff O’Brien, Sean Frechette, Jim Gaynor, and David Herr
Producers Lizzie Blenk and Lora Moftah

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