Rudy Giuliani is famously bad with technology. We’ve long known this because, among other things: He doesn’t know how to use AirPods; his company website, when he was working as a cybersecurity expert, was extremely easy to hack; and stories of him butt-dialing reporters are legion. Now, though, we have another example to add to the list: He left his Zoom mic on when he went to the bathroom during an online arraignment.
That’s right: In an extremely cringeworthy moment—arguably even more cringeworthy than the Borat incident, the hair-dye deluge, the election-hearing farting, and the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference—the former mayor of New York City left his mic on while being arraigned on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election in Arizona, and appeared to bring other participants into the bathroom while he relieved himself. As Intelligencer notes, “a stream of liquid hitting water” could be heard in a video before Giuliani asked, “Is that me?” It was.
Is this as bad as the time Robert Durst left his mic on during a bathroom visit and seemed to confess to murdering a bunch of people? Obviously not! But it’s a tough break for a guy whose life is just an endless series of tough breaks (of his own making) these days.
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