Giuliani's ex-wife says the former mayor often slept in late and smoked cigars in his bathrobe after

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ending his 2008 White House campaign: 'He just could not get over it'

Judith Giuliani, the ex-wife of Rudy Giuliani, said in the adaptation of an upcoming book that her former husband avoided social situations after exiting the GOP presidential contest in January 2008, instead spending much of his time in bed and smoking cigars in his bathrobe.

After the former New York City mayor endorsed then-Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who would eventually win the Republican nomination that year, Judith Giuliani said that she and her then-husband briefly left New York to get away from the cold weather and bask in the mild Florida winter.

Earlier in his career, Giuliani had been the high-profile US Attorney for the Southern District of New York before winning two terms in Gracie Mansion, but the failure of his presidential campaign took a toll on his everyday interactions with his family, which Andrew Kirtzman detailed in "Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor," which is set to be released in September. Giuliani was Trump's personal attorney while in office, a critical figure in the president's first impeachment over strong-arming Ukraine for political dirt who later pushed baseless claims of widespread voter fraud after Trump's election defeat.

Despite Rudy Giuliani and his then-wife staying in a well-off apartment complex in Palm Beach, Kirtzman in a New York Times essay described a man who began to turn inward.

https://news.yahoo.com/giulianis-ex-wife-says-former-212348331.html

[RockRaven]

1. Ah, yes, Judith... Rudy's not-the-incest-one not-the-babymomma ex-wife...

With three of them, it's hard to keep track of which one is which sometimes.

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2. Smoking cigars and....slamming a bottle of whiskey.

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3. IMO, Rudy's decline began earlier than 2008.

In 2000, Rudy was primed. Mayor of New York and he was in charge. Practically ruled by fiat. Mostly popular but losing support with his antics of arresting squeegee men (guys who "offer" to clean your windshield when you're stuck in traffic) and supporting the NYPD even when they were blatantly wrong.

Rudy set his sights on becoming the next Senator from New York State. Except there was a problem: About-to-be ex-First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, also had her sights on the same elected office. (Patrick Moynihan was retiring.) Fast Forward: It wasn't as easy as Rudy first believed. HRC was gaining in polls. He was losing ground. And so with the excuse of prostate cancer, Rudy bowed out; another Republican got the nomination; and lost to HRC.

Rudy briefly regenerated his legacy with 9/11 and became "America's Mayor." And he could have ridden that wave theoretically, except it wasn't enough. He couldn't keep that halo over his head. And he faltered incrementally until January 6, 2021 and fell to Earth.

* Also IMO, HRC was one reason why Rudy and Trump bonded. They shared a purple-passioned hate for Hillary Clinton. Rudy likely has blamed her for why he hasn't been or isn't President.