Rudy Giuliani cleans up for Hannity after hair-dye fiasco and continues to claim there was 'massive voting fraud' and blasting that a lawsuit will be filed in Georgia after recount confirmed Biden victory
Rudy Giuliani cleaned up to appear on Hannity Thursday night, hours after his dripping hair dye fiasco where brown streaks rolled down his face during a lengthy press conference.
Donald Trump's lawyer brushed off the hair debacle as he continued to tout 'massive voter fraud' on the Fox News show around 9pm and said the campaign intends to file more lawsuits in Georgia after the state's recount said Biden won.
Host Sean Hannity praised Giuliani for his rambling monologue at a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington earlier in the day.
'This week alone, we found thousands of ballots out of thin air, a couple weeks after the election, should concern everybody,' Hannity said.
'More than just three states, it was ten states. It's impossible, in Pittsburgh, and in Philadelphia, and Detroit, and in Milwaukee, and in Phoenix, the Democratic leaders woke up on November 3rd and said, "We are going to shut all the Republicans out. We are going to put them in shoots. We are not going to let them see absentee ballots,"' Giuliani said.
Rudy Giuliani appeared fresh faced during his appearance on Hannity Thursday night, hours after his dripping hair dye fiasco where brown streaks rolled down his face during a messy press conference where he claimed he had evidence to prove there was 'major voter fraud' in the presidential election
Hours earlier: On Thursday afternoon Donald Trump's lawyer Giuliani suffered a hair-dye malfunction where he outlined his election fraud conspiracy as lines of brown hair dye ran down his face during a long press conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters in Washington DC
![Giuliani bashed Georgia's recount announced Thursday evening which confirmed Biden as the winner in the election. 'We are about to have [a lawsuit] in Georgia, probably going to be filed tomorrow at the latest, on Saturday. Massive lawsuit, massive cheating, kind of on the scale of Pennsylvania and Michigan,' Giuliani said to Hannity](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/20/07/35897886-8968913-Giuliani_bashed_Georgia_s_recount_announced_Thursday_evening_whi-a-235_1605856670620.jpg)
Giuliani bashed Georgia's recount announced Thursday evening which confirmed Biden as the winner in the election. 'We are about to have [a lawsuit] in Georgia, probably going to be filed tomorrow at the latest, on Saturday. Massive lawsuit, massive cheating, kind of on the scale of Pennsylvania and Michigan,' Giuliani said to Hannity
'This had to come from someplace in the Biden campaign, as instruction to all of them, because in ten jurisdictions, and they picked crooked democratic cities to do it and where they could get away with it. They stole probably about 2million votes,' he said.
Giuliani then boasted that to combat the alleged fraud, there are a slew of lawsuits underway.
'We have a federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania. We have two federal lawsuits in Michigan, one of which we dismissed today because we got what we wanted out of Wayne county. We've got a lawsuit in Wisconsin. We have a lawsuit in Nevada to turn around the elections,' he said.
He then bashed Georgia's recount announced Thursday evening which confirmed Biden as the winner in the election.
'We are about to have one in Georgia, probably going to be filed tomorrow at the latest, on Saturday. Massive lawsuit, massive cheating, kind of on the scale of Pennsylvania and Michigan,' Giuliani said.
Giuliani continue to claim that there was rampant voter fraud in the election – even though independent election observers and government security officials have said the election was fair and secure.
He claimed that in states where Trump was initially in the lead, but ended up being beat by absentee ballots for Biden, that only mail votes for Biden were counted in an alleged conspiracy to rig the election.
'They knew they couldn't beat him. He destroyed them at the ballot box on Tuesday. He was ahead by 800,000 votes in Pennsylvania. He was ahead by 300,000 votes in Michigan. He was ahead by 400,000 votes in Wisconsin. And you don't make up these leads, honestly. They went into panic mode,' he said.
He claimed he has a witness that saw at 4.30am in the morning three or four trucks filled with mail-in votes arrive at the Detroit Center.
'There were three people left behind who were honest. Two about people and a dominion employee. We have the affidavits. Hear what they. They saw a big truck bringing in 100,000 ballots in garbage cans... and every single one of them was for Biden.'
'Now, why?...All they had time for was Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, because they were being notified by smart manic in Frankfurt that Biden was behind and they better come up with a lot more ballots, and we can prove every single thing I just said,' he added, claiming there were vote counters in Germany.
I'm melting: As the bizarre press conference went on, a heavily sweating Giuliani began to have streaks of apparent hair dye on the side of his face
Not socially-distanced: Rudy Giuliani was surrounded by a maskless group on stage including from left Sidney Powell, who is Mike Flynn's attorney, Joseph diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing, a husband-and-wife lawyer team who have promoted conspiracy theories, and Boris Epshteyn, a Trump aide
Head of the suit: This is the man leading Donald Trump's fight to overturn the election results
Running: The president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani had matching streaks of either hair dye or make-up on both sides of his face as he addressed the media
The former New York Mayor's appearance on Hannity was a continuation of his longwinded press conference held Thursday where he quoted 'My Cousin Vinny' and claimed he had 'hundreds' of sworn affidavits as evidence that he would not share - because, he claimed, it would put his witnesses' lives at risk.
The last time he held a press conference was at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in northern Philadelphia, making the RNC's packed conference room at least an upgrade. And this time there were no known sex offenders on stage with him.
Instead there was a self-styled 'elite strike-force team working on behalf of the president' who outlined a conspiracy which wove together Hugo Chavez; China; Venezuela; Cuba; the Clinton Foundation; George Soros; testimony found 'on the internet'; ballots which arrived in trucks; New Jersey voters who crossed the Camden; 'hack' judges; vote counters in Germany and Spain; Democratic political machines just like Mayor Daley in the 1960s; the 'fake news media'; and Joe Biden.
The strike-force team's other leader, Jenna Ellis, bristled at the demand for actual evidence, saying: 'Your question is fundamentally flawed when you're asking where is the evidence.'
At the end she claimed that Rudy Giuliani and another lawyer - Sidney Powell - had 'released the Kraken,' a mythical sea creature which destroys ships.
The press conference was announced by Donald Trump and praised by him as it went on in a tweet: 'An open and shut case of voter fraud. Massive numbers!'
As the two-hour long spectacle unfolded, two streaks of brown dye rolled inexorably down 76-year-old Giuliani's face, apparently unnoticed by the former mayor and presidential candidate, who wiped his face and forehead repeatedly with a white handkerchief.
'Did you all watch My Cousin Vinny?' he said, seeking to make the point that election observers were kept too far away from ballots during the count.
'These people were further away than My Cousin Vinny was from the witness,' he said.
Giuliani even acted out part of a scene played by actor Joe Pesci, using a Brooklyn accent. He called it one of his favorite crime films. He said the race was 'not a victory. It's a fraud.'
Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani delivered a rambling monologue Thursday where he asserted 'massive fraud' in the election, 'not a little teeny one'
See you in court: Rudy Giuliani, 76, remains an attorney registered to practice at the federal bar in New York
My Cousin Vinny: Rudy Giuliani (left) impersonated Vinny Gambini (right) as he compared his legal case to Joe Pesci's character
The film's director Jonathan Lynn got a laugh out of the moment.
'I regard Giuliani's praise of My Cousin Vinny as generous from the man who is currently giving the Comedy Performance of the Year,' he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Giuliani's charges ran the gamut, and he spoke before a team of lawyers and a sign that was meant to show Trump's 'Multiple Pathways to Victory.' It highlighted states all carried by President-elect Joe Biden.
'What I'm describing for you is a massive fraud. It isn't a little teeny one,' he said.
'The president way ahead on election night,' Giuliani added.
Later, he claimed that the results didn't comport with his sleep schedule.
'When I went to bed on election night, he was ahead in all those states … How is it they all turned around?'
He bristled at a question about whether he would seek to drag out cases, and what he would do with his evidence if courts refuse to hear it.
''We're not going to drag it out. It's ridiculous for you to say we're dragging it out. Al Gore had a lot more time than we have had and we have had two weeks to investigate so that's also completely unfair to say we're dragging it out,' he said.
He expressed shock at how the vote changed as absentee ballots came in.
'We have statisticians willing to testify,' Giuliani said, in a harangue that lasted for more than 40 minutes.
He blasted Detroit and Philadelphia, cities with concentrations of black voters where he said there was fraud in elections going back decades.
'Each one of these cities are cities that are controlled by Democrats. Which means they can get away with whatever they want to do,' he claimed.
'Unfortunately they have some friendly judges that will issue ridiculously irrational opinions just to come out in their favor,' he said, days after losing in the Pennsylvania state supreme court.
'Even Tanzania and places that you wouldn't think of had rules about inspectors,' he said, without explaining why it would be surprising for the East African nation to observe the vote count.
He also attacked the media, who sat silently as he trained his attacks on them about 30 minutes into his presentation.
'I know you keep reporting falsely that we have no evidence,' he said. Then he read a single affidavit of Jessy Jacob alleging fraud at the Detroit center where votes were counted.
A judge found the claims, while serious, were 'generalized' and had 'no date, location, frequency, or names of employees.'
But it was the only one he shared. ''We have 100 more of these. I can't show them to you.' He said it was because people who filled them out would be 'harassed.'
'The American people are entitled to know this. You don't have a right to keep it from them,' he lectured the press.
'If you count the lawful votes, Trump won Wisconsin by a good margin,' he said.
He promised additional suits in Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, and other states.
'If you count the legal votes in Pennsylvania, he won by about 300,000 votes,' he said.
'We have very significant fraud allegations in the state of New Mexico,' Giuliani said of the state that went for Biden. Then he claimed there were cases in Virginia too.
But he held back information.
'This had to be planned in advance,' he said, complaining that observers were put in 'pens' and 'corrals.'
Clean-up time: Shortly before the end of the press conference Rudy Giuliani managed to wipe away most of the brown streak on his face
We can flip them all: Giuliani had a map beside him of the states where he claims the Democratic plot went down - although he also claimed it happened in New Mexico and Virginia, which are not colored
As he wrapped up, Giuliani lobbed more wild accusations, this time referencing Dominion Voting Systems machines that are the subject of a conspiracy touted by Trump that they 'deleted' votes for him and 'switched' votes from Biden to Trump.
'What we are seeing is massive influence of Communist money from Venezuela, Cuba and likely China,' he said.
'We use largely a Venezuelan voting machine to count our vote,' he said.
'Joe Biden is in the lead because of the fraudulent ballots,' Giuliani claimed.
Then he yielded the mic to lawyer Sidney Powell, who represented former Trump national security advisor Mike Flynn when he sought to retract his guilty plea.
'The world is watching this,' said Powell.
Another lawyer, Jenna Ellis, also lectured the press, who were forced to sit silently for an hour of presentations in a cramped room where none of the speakers wore masks as the pandemic reached record levels.
'I can see all of you taking pictures right now and I can anticipate what your headlines are going to be,' she sneered - although she did not appear to have noticed Giuliani's brown streaks.
Then she provided the quasi-military unofficial name of the group.
''This is an elite strike-force team working on behalf of the president ... to make sure that our Constitution is protected,' she said.
The group includes Giuliani, Powell, Ellis, former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova and his wife and fellow lawyer Victoria Toensing.
'I don't know what you need to wake you up? To do your job!' Giuliani lectured the press.
Elite strike team: A sweaty Rudy Giuliani outlined his claims of a massive conspiracy which had been going on apparently unnoticed by anyone but the president's current legal team in a low-ceiling conference room at the Republican National Committee's headquarters
How it went: Rudy Giuliani leads the 'elite strike force team' out at the end of the press conference, with Jenna Ellis, who in 2016 called the president an 'idiot' behind him. She later tweeted that Giuliani and Sidney Powell (immediately behind her) had 'unleashed the Kraken.' Krakens cannot survive out of water.
Witness claims: Giuliani gestured at an affidavit from a Detroit poll worker, Jessy Jacob, which appeared to have had some scanning error
He's found a fan! The president's second son was apparently unconcerned by the dye on Rudy Giuliani's face
Damp squid: The Kraken is a mythological Scandinavian sea creature sometimes compared to a giant octopus
The former federal prosecutor spoke to his past.
'I know crimes. I can smell them. You don't have to smell this one,' he said.
'When I went to bed on election night, he was ahead in all those states … How is it they all turned around?' he asked. The simple answer to that was that mail-in ballots in a series of states could not be counted until after in-person ballots because Republican legislatures had refused to allow them to be processed in advance.
'Our goal here is to go around the iron curtain of censorship,' Giuliani said, before calling on Trump loyalist outfit OANN.
Even after the attacks on the media, the lawyers took multiple questions from the press – including a series of softballs from seemingly friendly outlets provided seating in the front row.
Finally pressed about his string of legal defeats, Giuliani attacked the judiciary in Democratic states. 'Judges are appointed politically, and too many of them are hacks,' he said.
Powell floated a conspiracy theory centered around money-making. 'Think about the global interests behind your own news organizations,' she said. 'They make one heck of a lot of money off of it.'
Ellis tried to discourage questions about evidence, saying people who would inquire don't understand the judicial process.
'Your question is fundamentally flawed when you're asking where is the evidence,' she said.
Giuliani acknowledged several members of the legal team who have dropped out of the bevy of lawsuits the Trump camp has organized.
'We have difficulty getting lawyers because our lawyers get threatened with being killed because of the ridiculous way in which you cover this,' he said.
