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Linda Tripp was a civil servant who infamously turned on her then-friend Monica Lewinsky, taping their conversations about Lewinskys relationship with President Bill Clinton.

The revelations led to Clintons impeachment and gained the young intern, then 22, a lifetime in the spotlight. The saga will be told anew in a 10-part FX miniseries called, Impeachment: American Crime Story.

Where is Linda Tripp today? What is she doing now? She is no longer alive. Tripp died at age 70 of pancreatic cancer in April 2020, according to AJC.

At the time of the Clinton scandal, Linda Tripp was a civil servant working for the Pentagon. After the scandal, she married, ran a German Christmas store, and spoke out now and then about the Clintons and the treatment she received after exposing the affair.

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Lewinsky tweeted well wishes to Tripp upon hearing she was sick. No matter the past, upon hearing that linda tripp is very seriously ill, i hope for her recovery. i cant imagine how difficult this is for her family, she wrote.

BBC reported that her family had confirmed her cause of death as pancreatic cancer.

She left behind a mixed legacy; whistleblower to some, treacherous friend to another.

Linda Tripp, confidant of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, leaves her Columbia, MD home to travel to the US District Courthouse 02 July in Washington, DC.

Linda Tripp kept a low profile in the years leading up to her death. In fact, when she spoke out on the saga in July 2018, it was, according to The Washington Post, her first public address in nearly two decades. She spoke at an event for National Whistleblower Day on Capitol Hill.

She expressed only having a single regret, according to The Post: Not having the guts to do it sooner.

It was always about right and wrong, never left and right, Tripp said in the talk, The Post reported. It was about exposing perjury and the obstruction of justice. It was never about politics. She added that she now knew what a real high-tech lynching feels like.

According to The Post, Tripp lamented that it was virtually impossible to get your good name back and said My duty, my oath, was to the office of presidency, not to the sitting incumbent, and I was true to that oath.

Linda Tripp talks to reporters outside of the Federal Courthouse 29 July in Washington, DC, following her eighth day of testimony before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Although she didnt give many public speeches, Linda Tripp gave a few selective interviews in which she lashed out at Hillary Clinton before she died.

In 2015, with Hillary Clinton seeking the White House herself, Tripp, then 65, gave an interview to Daily Mail in which she trashed Hillary. In that interview, Tripp described Hillary as the ruler of the White House when Bill Clinton was president and called her ruthless.

In her mind she would be part of a coronation instead of an election, Tripp added, claiming of Hillarys hoped-for ascent to the presidency: This has been planned for so many years.So this is a runaway train. Nobody is going to stop it.

She added, I think the most compelling thing about Hillary is that she will stop at nothing to achieve her end and that she views the public as plebeians easily seduced into believing her point of view.

As for Hillary and Monica, Tripp contended, Hillary was not only aware of Monica Lewinsky she ensured that Monica was removed from the White House and in the end went from being a lack luster First Lady with unimpressive approval numbers to wronged wife. Literally within the blink of an eye she propelled herself to First Victim status. This turned the corner for Hillary.

She has spoken out positively about Barack Obama in the past, though. According to Time Magazine, she once said, I believe President-elect Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that, coupled with his brilliance, and, of course, his eloquence, brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into The Color Purple.'

Tripp married t man named Dieter Rausch, and they were trying to sell their $3 million farm when she gave a 2015 Daily Mail interview. According to Daily Mail, Tripp and her husband ran a store called The Christmas Sleigh, in Middleburg, and she was a grandmother of seven.

According to its website, The Christmas Sleigh sells German Christmas ornaments. The website labels the store Americas best 100% authentic German shop and says its been open for 17 years. The store also sells handmade Austrian clothing.

The Christmas Sleigh carries a wide variety of high quality and hand made European items. Many of our products are not as yet on our web site and we add to our inventory virtually every day. Our frequent buying trips to Germany, Austria and Italy during the year help ensure that we can usually locate whatever it is you are looking for as long as it is still being made! the website reads.

GettyLinda Tripp (R) waits to make a statement to reporters beside her daughter Allison (L) and son Ryan (C) in front of the Federal Courthouse 29 July in Washington, DC, after her eighth and final day of testimony before a federal grand jury.

In 2014, Boston.com reported that Tripp was in Middleburg, Virginia selling authentic German trinkets out of a Christmas shop she runs with her German husband but noted that some Yelp reviewers were leaving negative comments. The reviews on Yelp were mixed. I love this store! How could you not?! Everything is beautifully displayed. I wish more stores were as tasteful and magical, read one.

But another reviewer wrote, WAY overpriced for stuff available everywhere & online. I found much of it tacky, too.

An article in Inside Nova described Tripps husband Dieter Rausch as quietly softspoken and described him as typically dressed in traditional German attire of lederhosen and a felt cap. The 2015 article said that Rausch had lived in Virginia for 14 years at that point and married Tripp in 2003 after knowing her for years.

According to Time Magazine, Tripp did receive some money as a result of the scandal. In 2003, she settled with the Department of Defense for $595,000 in a civil suit in which Tripp charged the Pentagon had violated her privacy by releasing personal information to the media, the magazine reported. Biography.com reported that Tripp also received a retroactive promotion, retroactive pay at the highest salary for 1998, 1999, and 2000, and a pension.

Time magazine reports that Dieter Rausch was a childhood boyfriend who had been Tripps first kiss at age 14 and says she is a breast cancer survivor. According to Biography.com, Tripps mother, Inge, was German. She was previously married to a military man named Bruce Tripp, with whom she had children Ryan and Allison.

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The Girls on the Bus is changing bus stops.

Two years after the adaptation of New York Times journalist Amy Chozicks novel Chasing Hillary landed at Netflix following a multiple-outlet bidding war, the drama inspired by a chapter of the novel has landed at The CW.

Currently back in the development stage, The Girls on the Bus chronicles four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, finding friendship, love and a scandal that could take down not just the presidency but our entire democracy along the way. Sources caution that the potential series is not about Hillary Clinton or the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries) and Chozick remain attached to pen the script, which is now being recalibrated for The CW audience. Greg Berlanti and his Berlanti Productions partner Sarah Schechter and head of television David Madden will all exec produce. The project hails from Warner Bros. TV, where Berlanti is under a massive $400 million overall TV deal. Plec, who moved her overall deal to Universal TV after a long tenure at WBTV, has a carve out for Girls on the Bus via her My So-Called Company banner.

Sources say Netflix quietly dropped Girls on the Bus last year after landing the project following a fierce bidding war. The drama, which had a production commitment and was beginning to cast at when the pandemic hit, was ultimately dropped as part of the streamers regime change from Cindy Holland (who bought it) to Bela Bajaria (who dropped it). Sources note that the political backdrop of the series was part of the reason Netflix ultimately bailed on the project. (Netflix did not return THRs request for comment.)

Published in April 2018,Chasing Hillarytells the story of the 2016 presidential election that saw former first lady and secretary of state Clintons attempt to become the first woman to serve as president of the United States end in defeat to Republican Donald Trump. Chozick chronicled Clintons pursuit of the presidency dating back to her failed 2008 campaign. Chozick reported from Clintons campaign bus and inside its Brooklyn headquarters, following the candidate through 48 states to tell the story of what really happened.

Girls on the Busbrings Berlanti back to the political forum after the USA Network limited seriesPolitical Animals,which featured Sigourney Weaver playing a Hillary Clinton-like character. Girls on the Bus also marks Plecs latest collaboration with Berlanti, with whom shes been friends since her sophomore year at Northwestern University. Plec, who officiated Berlantis wedding, also worked with him during her time as a development exec for Kevin Williamson onDawsons Creek.Together, they both executive produced The CWs short-livedThe Tomorrow People. In addition to Girls on the Bus, Plec remains an exec producer of The CWs Legacies and Roswell, and also has Peacocks Vampire Academy in the works via her UTV deal.

The Girls on the Buscomes to The CW as the White House continues to be a timely source for scripted originals. FX is about to launch Impeachment: American Crime Story, the Monica Lewinsky-themed season of the Ryan Murphy anthology; and Showtime is in production on anthology seriesFirst Ladies,with the first season set to focus on Michelle Obama, among others.

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Former President Bill Clinton has faced a number of sexual assault and harassment allegations. But the most serious of all was of Juanita Broaddrick, who accused him of raping her during his 1978 campaign for Arkansas governor. For the very first time, Broaddrick went public about her allegations against Clinton in January 1999 and gave an interview to Dateline NBC. But it was not aired until February 24, 1999, after Clinton was acquitted by the Senate on charges related to his affair with Monica Lewinsky on February 12 of that year.

Broaddrick went on to give interviews to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Washington Post, and the New York Times at the time. In her interviews, the retired nurse said that she met the then-Arkansas attorney general in April 1978 in Van Buren, Arkansas. At the time, she was volunteering for Clinton's gubernatorial campaign. Later, she was invited to Clintons office in Little Rock a week after for a nursing home administrators' conference.

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After she reached a hotel in Little Rock, Broaddrick claimed Clinton asked her to meet him in the hotel's lobby coffee shop. But later, the Democrat allegedly suggested to her that they should go in her room since there were many reporters outside. Broaddrick reportedly agreed to his suggestion. The 1999 interview of her with The Washington Post stated, As she tells the story, they spent only a few minutes chatting by the window Clinton pointed to an old jail he wanted to renovate if he became governor before he began kissing her. She resisted his advances, she said, but soon he pulled her back onto the bed and forcibly had sex with her. She said she did not scream because everything happened so quickly. Her upper lip was bruised and swollen after the encounter because, she said, he had grabbed onto it with his mouth.

The last thing he said to me was, You better get some ice for that. And he put on his sunglasses and walked out the door,' she recalled, as reported by The Post. Though Broaddrick had no witnesses to her rape, her numerous friends backed up the story. Norma Rogers, who was director of nursing at Broaddrick's nursing home at the time, said at the time that she entered Broaddricks room soon after the alleged rape and found her crying and in 'a state of shock.' Her upper lip was puffed out and blue, and appeared to have been hit.

After her initial interviews in 1999, Broaddrick later told the Drudge Report that weeks following the alleged assault, she met Hillary Clinton, who allegedly tried to thank her for keeping her mouth shut. [Hillary] came directly to me as soon as she hit the door. I had been there only a few minutes, I only wanted to make an appearance and leave. She caught me and took my hand and said 'I am so happy to meet you. I want you to know that we appreciate everything you do for Bill, Broaddrick claimed about their meeting at a political rally.

She added: I started to turn away and she held onto my hand and reiterated her phrase -- looking less friendly and repeated her statement 'Everything you do for Bill'. I said nothing. She wasn't letting me get away until she made her point. She talked low, the smile faded on the second thank you. I just released her hand from mine and left the gathering. But Clinton's lawyers refuted the accusations.

Broaddricks name has once again come into the limelight as the third part of Ryan Murphy's Impeachment: American Crime Story anthology is releasing on September 7, which revisits Clinton sex scandal and tells the story of Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, and Paula Jones.The true crime television series did not reportedly cover Broaddricks account.

In recent years, the 78-year-old has come forward as a Donald Trump defender. When Hillary Clinton ran for president opposite Trump, Broaddrick shared a tweet in January 2016 that read, I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73... it never goes away.

I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.

Also in October of that year, when Trump broadcast a press conference-style event live on Facebook with Broaddrick, she said that Trump was accused of saying lewd things about women in leaked audio, but Bill Clinton raped me, and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don't think there's any comparison. At the time, she also tweeted, Hillary calls Trump's remarks horrific while she lives with and protects a Rapist. Her actions are horrific.

Hillary calls Trump's remarks "horrific" while she lives with and protects a "Rapist". Her actions are horrific.

With a following of over 500k on Twitter, Broaddricks account is mostly about mocking and criticizing the Democratic party and its leaders. One of her recent tweets read, It took a Democrat House, Senate and Executive branch only 8 months to destroy the America we once knew. Another tweet of her mocking President Joe Biden added: Media: Whats it like trying to explain to Biden.... the duties of being a responsible and able President? Biden Handlers: Seriously? Its like talking to a potted plant.

It took a Democrat House, Senate and Executive branch only 8 months to destroy the America we once knew.

Media: Whats it like trying to explain to Biden.... the duties of being a responsible and able President?

Biden Handlers: Seriously? Its like talking to a potted plant.

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AP explains: DOJ's IG report on Clinton emails

The Dept. of Justice's watchdog faults former FBI Director James Comey for breaking with protocol in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, but it says his decisions before the 2016 elections were not driven by political bias.

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WASHINGTON As part of a broad leak investigation related to the FBI's Hillary Clinton email inquiry, the Justice Department's inspector general could not determine whether Rudy Giuliani had access to inside information prior to the dramatic decision to re-open the Clinton probe in the closing days of the 2016 election.

Just two days before Congress was notified that the investigation into Clinton's handling ofclassified information was resuming, Giluiani, then adviser to Donald Trump, suggested that a "surprise or two" was coming in the final days of the campaign. The comments raisedquestions about whether Giuliani had been tipped to the decision.

In subsequent interviews with investigators, Giuliani and four unidentified agents denied any contact, according to the inspector general's review. The review included an examination of telephone records provided by the FBI, which showed that the four agents had contact with general numbers associated with Giuliani's law firm and two former businesses.

"The telephone numbers attributed by the FBI to Giuliani were not, therefore, specific to Giuliani," the inspector general concluded. "Accordingly, the purported investigative leads provided by the FBI based on alleged FBI employee contacts with Giuliani were inaccurate."

Giuliani, when interviewed by Justice investigators, said the Oct. 28, 2016 decision by then-FBI Director James Comey was "a shock to me."

"I had no fore-knowledge," Giuliani said, according to the report.

"Giuliani also said he had not been in contact with any active FBI agents in October 2016, and stated that he had only spoken with former agents who did not have any direct or indirect knowledge of FBI investigations in October 2016," the report said.

Giuliani characterized his conversations with former agents as "gossip."

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Hillary Clinton visited an art exhibition in Venice, Italy where 62,000 pages of her emails were displayed.

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And so, yes: Of course Rudy Giuliani is important.

But lets go back for a moment to that September morning when, in our vulnerability and fear, we clung to Rudy. The memory of that embrace, from which we have been trying to extricate ourselves ever since, may have faded, but the need that inspired it is still intact. Its funny that you call it a Cuomo-like moment, Andrew Kirtzman, Giulianis biographer, said to me on Zoom, because I thought Cuomo was having a Giuliani-like moment. What Kirtzman found especially comparable about the two situations is how quickly people forget the circumstances behind the rise of these heroic figures. Those circumstances are an atmosphere of totalizing fear combined with a leadership void. Enter a flawed but vigorous leader, seemingly all facts and no bullshita man born, as his friend Peter Powers said of Giuliani, without a fear gene.

Kirtzman had been with Giuliani on 9/11. A young reporter at NY1, he was awakened by his mother, who told him to turn on the television. He called his newsroom, who instructed him to find the mayor. He went downtown in a cab. The driver, as soon as they entered the deserted streets surrounding the World Trade Center, slammed the brakes and threw him out. A frantic woman got in, urging Kirtzman to go back uptown with her. A cop yelled at him to get off the street. Kirtzman waved a press pass and held his ground. Im looking for Giuliani, he said. Oh, Giuliani, the cop replied. Hes over there. The mayor, covered in dust and ash, was emerging from a building on Barclay Street where he had taken cover after the first tower fell. On seeing Kirtzman, he said, Come on, Andrew, lets go! They began to walk up Church Street on what is now Giulianis iconic march north. As they walked, the second tower fell behind them. An implosion of rubble and debris. Everyone ran for cover.

Talk about a terrifying moment, Kirtzman said, helping me to re-enter the unbelievable experience of that day, its magnitude, the emotions it inspired. Zeroing in on what he saw as the source of the mayors appeal, Kirtzman said, He was the only one who was not absolutely immobilized by fear. Afterward Giuliani held a press conference where, when asked how many would die, he gave that unspeakably moving reply: The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear, ultimately.

Kirtzman is at work on a second Giuliani biography (to be published next year by Simon & Schuster), and its not hard to see why: His subjecta child of New Yorks white ethnic enclaves, with all their tribal hatreds and a cult of loyalty as fierce as that found in the honor-and-shame societies of Afghanistans frontier regionswas fascinating even as a young man. Born to a family of Italian immigrants, he grew upfirst in Brooklyn, later in Garden Cityin a world where crime and law enforcement were two sides of the same coin. He had four uncles in uniform; a fifth was a fireman. His father, Harold, was a petty criminal who, in 1934, at age 24, had been convicted of robbing a milkman at gunpoint in a Manhattan building. Later, Harold worked as a bartender at Uncle Leos loan-sharking operation. When people couldnt pay up, Harold was the guy who showed up with a baseball bat. Much of this information, including a cousin who was a junkie and another who died as a cop in the line of duty, came to light through the tremendous work of Wayne Barrett, Giulianis late biographer. These were dichotomies typical of second-generation immigrant families in the city, and it is hard to be sure how much Giuliani himself knew of the equal measures of light and shade contained within him. Certainly now, as law enforcement wraps its arms around himas this story went to press, a New York Court suspended Giulianis law license, having determined that he made false and misleading statements in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 electionthere is a special poignancy to Harold imploring the young Rudy to steer clear of a life of crime. He would say over and over, Giuliani told Time in 2001, You cant take anything thats not yours. You cant steal. Never lie, never steal. As a child and even as a young adult, I thought, What does he keep doing this for? Im not going to steal anything.

Rudy is the EPITOME of what has happened to our PUBLIC LIFE, says Joe Klein. And ITS SCARY.

The young Rudy, brimming with admiration for John F. Kennedy, was an RFK Democrat. When Hillary Clinton was still a supporter of Barry Goldwater, Giuliani was praising President Lyndon Johnsons War on Poverty and describing the writings of a member of the John Birch Society as the disgusting neurotic fantasy of a mind warped by fear and bigotry. He voted for George McGovern in 1972 but, three years later, was appointed Gerald Fords associate deputy attorney general. In 1981, under Ronald Reagan, he became the youngest associate attorney general ever. He only became a Republican, his mother, Helen, said of him, as Giulianis registration changed from Democrat to Independent to Republican, after he began to get all these jobs from them. As associate attorney general, he had a shameful record of demonizing Haitians fleeing the murderous regime of Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier. By 1983, he was the youngest man ever to lead the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York (only men had led it then). He kept his lynx-eyed gaze fastened on Italian organized crime as well as white-collar crime, prosecuting the likes of Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky. His youthful love of opera made him relish the more theatrical aspects of his job. He memorably perp walked Richard Wigton across the trading floor of his company in handcuffs. You dont stop violent crime by being a good fairy, Ed Hayes, who served as the model for the Tommy Killian character in Tom Wolfes The Bonfire of the Vanities, told me. Hayes, who had also grown up hard in an Irish equivalent of Giulianis Italian neighborhood, fought the mayor on behalf of a firefighters widow after 9/11 and came away with a favorable impression. He was a good mayor, Hayes said. I dont give a shit what anyone says. But recently he had run into Giuliani at Scottos, an Italian restaurant in Midtown, and was shocked by what he saw. I remember looking at him, and he didnt look the same. I said to myself, What the fuck is going on here? This is one of the great heroes in the history of New York City.

Giuliani, who almost became a priest until he discovered he had a libido, had an uncompromising sense of right and wrong that served him well as a prosecutor. After two storied terms as mayor, he launched a 2008 presidential campaign that ran into the sands. Then he disappeared into the private sector, where he made gobs of money. (My husband, in fact, was an associate at the esteemed Houston law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani, after the latter name had fallen away.) So far, so standard. We should stop here to stress that, though more colorful than most, these are the lineaments of a perfectly routine career in public life. Had Giuliani at this point vanished into the mahogany woodwork of boardrooms, Kirtzman would have had no greater task ahead of him than detailing messy divorces, the odd shady deal, a late-in-life love affair with scotch, and the diminishing returns that accrue to those who try to extract every drop of financial and political gain from a global celebrity they had only a partial hand in creating.

But now, as Giuliani comes full circle, via the Trump bypass, to be the subject of a criminal investigation led by the very same office he once led, he becomes a study of almost Dostoyevskian proportions. In him, we see some of our most ancient impulses, of power and ethics, fear and greed, dramatized. To be clearin May, Time revealed Giuliani worked with an accused Russian agent in a plot against the 2020 U.S. electionthis is a prosecutor who has come to be a danger to his personal liberty, as well as that of this country. Even if we set aside the scenes of self-abasementnow butt dialing reporters, now possibly emitting COVID-infected fecal aerosols into a crowded Michigan courtroomthis is territory unlike any other in modern times. It is incumbent upon us to try to understand how the arc of this once-impressive individual came to intersect so calamitously with this moment that were living through in America. Because as much as there is nothing mysterious (and certainly nothing tragic) in Trumps trajectory, even the most partisan observers I spoke to could not help but feel a degree of pain, sadness, and frank bewilderment at the question of what happened to Giuliani. Its inexplicable to me, said one. Frontal lobe dementia, said another. A guy with an expiration date, suggested a former associate. Ravitch said, A lot of people think he became a heavy drinker and thats why hes behaving the way he is. A close aide demurred: Its a sadder, more complicated story. Theres something wrong, theres something off. He got nothing out of this relationship. He threw away his reputation for free.

I take great issue, said someone who worked closely with Giuliani in the 1990s (lets call him Jeff), with the people who say that this is just a continuation of who he was. Thats not true. This is the tragic collapse of a great public man.

Jeff remembers someone with a steel trap of a mind who could hold briefings of three to four hours without notes, a big reader, a man capable of compassion. Jeff attended one of a series of town halls Giuliani held around the city during his first term in Canarsie, in southern Brooklyn, real Rudy country. There, an older man struggled to get his point across. Shouts of learn English and stop wasting our time rose around the packed school auditorium. Rudy shut that down right away, Jeff said, recalling the mayors words: Let me tell you something: This gentleman is an immigrant trying to ask his mayor a question. My grandfather came here. He didnt speak any English. He had a hell of a tough time. If somebody had taken the time to listen, life would perhaps have been easier for him. Im a busy guy. As busy as you may be, Im busier than you are. If I have the time to spend a few extra minutes listening to this guy finishing his thought, you do too. Giulianis reaction changed the tenor of that room. Applause ensued. Jeff was eager for me to see that, when it came to the old Rudy, there were as many stories of this kind as of the other. There was none of that Trumpian nonsense, Jeff said, adding that he found the present condition of the ex-mayor heartbreaking.

Giuliani had far more trouble being sympathetic to people from other backgrounds, especially New Yorks Black population, which in his day amounted to more than a quarter of the city. His experience with race has a certain metaphorical power too, when one considers that in America the encounter with the other so often begins at the color line. That is when we see people unlike ourselves, and when our ability to see in the experience of another a shade of our ownempathy, in a wordis truly tested. In the case of Giuliani, his racial attitudes were more than casually held prejudices, no mere extension of his upbringing but an actual vendetta, originating in his 1989 electoral loss to the citys first Black mayor, David Dinkins.

When HILLARY CLINTON was still a supporter of BARRY GOLDWATER, Giuliani was praising President Johnsons WAR ON POVERTY.

He couldnt believe he had lost to Dinkins, said Bill Bratton, who served as police commissioner under Giuliani. Bratton, who had been in the room when President Barack Obama mocked Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011an event many believe led Trump to truly set his sights on the presidency with an aim to undo Obamas legacydescribed that moment to me as the mirror image of the rage that the defeat to Dinkins produced in Giuliani. The future mayor had until then actively courted the Black vote, speaking with emotion of homeless shelters and crack babies. But Giulianis concern lasted only as long as he was allowed to play the benefactor. Confronted with losing to a Black man, his goodwill disappeared. At Giulianis party at the Roosevelt Hotel, Barrett evokes a scene that would return to haunt us: The ballroom was filled with frustrated supporters hed closed the campaign invokingwhite, male, and mad. It was also filled with ugly untruths about how Blacks had stolen the election at polls in Harlem and Bed-Stuy, where the dead had supposedly voted by the thousands.

Not only did Giuliani lack the historical imagination or the generosity of spirit needed to see the significance of New York electing its first Black mayor, what is especially revealing (given what he would later become) is that even when he had beaten Dinkins in 1993, on the issue of law and order, he could not let his animosity go. He really prevented us, Bratton said, still frustrated after all these years, from having a free hand to reach out to the Black community. The animus ran so deep that Giuliani, as mayor, didnt once attend the US Open, because that event had come to be associated with Dinkinss mayoralty. This also meant that when the truly hideous incidents of police violence occurred under Giulianithe 1997 rape of Abner Louima in a precinct bathroom by cops with the handle of a cleaning implement; Amadou Diallo, shot at 41 times in 1999 by plainclothes police officers; Patrick Dorismond, killed in 2000 by undercover officers attempting to buy drugs that Dorismond wasnt sellingthe mayor had no one in Black leadership to speak to. Nor did he seem to want to. Instead he released Dorismonds juvenile delinquency record to show that he was no altar boy. In fact he was, at the very same Catholic school that Giuliani had attended. Not surprisingly, a month after Dorismonds funeral Giulianis approval rating fell to 37 percent, with only 6 percent of Black voters approving of the job he was doing.

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