In the popular vernacular it’s known as a “butt call” or “butt dial. It means when you inadvertently call someone by mistake from your cell phone. Most times they result in a simple “sorry,” and a hang-up, but other times they can lead to a major embarrassment.
Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani seems to have recently suffered the latter. According to reports, in the calls that accidentally connected to an unintended party, Mr. Giuliani spoke about needing money and attacked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
As you probably know, lawmakers have demanded documents from Trump’s outspoken lawyer earlier this month as part of the presidential impeachment inquiry. In the past, he publicly admitted asking Ukrainian officials to investigate widely debunked corruption allegations against Mr. Biden. Three Democratic-led committees are currently investigating whether President Trump tried to pressure Ukraine’s president into investigating Mr. Biden in exchange for military aid.
What Did Rudy Say?
NBC investigative reporter Rich Shapiro says he received two voicemails from Mr. Giuliani in the space of a month. He described them as the result of “what is known, in casual parlance, as a butt dial.”
Mr Shapiro missed the first call, mid-afternoon on 28 September, because he was at a child’s birthday party. He had interviewed Mr. Giuliani for an article the day before. For the entirety of the ensuing three-minute voicemail – which Shapiro assumes that Rudy did not know was connected, nor being recorded — Giuliani reportedly attacked Mr. Biden and his family.
“Biden has been trading in on his public office since he was a senator,” Mr Giuliani reportedly said to an unidentified man. In the conversation, he brought up the discredited allegations that Joe Biden, when vice-president, stopped an investigation in Ukraine to protect his son Hunter.
“He did the same thing in China. And he tried to do it in Kazakhstan and in Russia,” Mr. Giuliani reportedly added. “They don’t want to investigate because he’s protected, so we gotta force them to do it,” Giuliani says near the end of the recording
In the second voicemail, left on the night of 16 October, Mr. Giuliani again inadvertently recorded a conversation with an unknown man.
“We need a few hundred thousand,” Mr. Giuliani reportedly said at one point, in a conversation that Mr. Shapiro says covered Bahrain and an unknown man named Robert.
Mr. Giuliani has not yet commented on the calls.
Not sure why you say ‘discredited’. I’m not aware anyone has been willing to investigate it at all.
Ya well that tells you they believe Biden is dirty for sure that’s what I get out of it. The bad thing is you have a bunch of people who believe this idiots or Democraps it’s unwavering to see it unfolding the amount of time this idiots have spent and the money is mind boggling, I have real news idiots Trump has been audited every year if he was dirty the IRS would have got him along time ago he’s very high profile for them they would have leaked it to the press along time ago so here we are third year of trying to impeach or rub he’s face in the dirt and he has managed to come out of this smelling like a rose and working for the people he has done a marvelous job with all of the fan fare he gets from the left,they really make me sick to my stomach with the crap they have said and have done to our duly elected by the people for the people and next it is going to be a landslide the Dems will not know what hit them!!!
Biden has been trading in on his public office since he was a senator,” Mr Giuliani reportedly said to an unidentified man. In the conversation, he brought up the discredited allegations that Joe Biden, when vice-president, stopped an investigation in Ukraine to protect his son Hunter. (This allegation has never been discredited,Biden himself was videotaped “Bragging about getting the prosecutor fired along with how he did so”).
I think it’s time for Rudy to keep his phone in the inside pocket of his suit jacket. Can’t let the enemy unwillingly know our intentions.
So what! Giuliani is an asset to the U.S. – he knows Biden is corrupt and is speaking up. Biden is a no talent politician that been lying, living off the government teat for over 40 years and should not be allowed to hold office again. Typically Biden’s thinking is muddled, mediocre and mendacious – and his public behavior with women is awful (like “feeling up” little girls who can’t complain). Listening to Crazy Uncle Joe debate is difficult – he’s often unable to communicate anything intelligent – maybe even showing signs of dementia. Additionally, he must think his previous rank as vice president exempts him from consequences. His blatant corrupt behavior in the Ukraine/Hunter Biden scandal is “beyond the pale”. Isn’t it amazing that today’s democrats would even consider this complete dud for president?