“Black sweat”: the decadent show of Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani

It will be one of those moments that will be remembered in the history of American politics, perhaps as the one in which a troubled Richard Nixon sweated in a debate with a lush John Kennedy in 1960.

It happened on Thursday, at a press conference that provided Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and today the personal lawyer for President of the United States Donald Trump, who had caught the country’s attention because he was supposed to go and show evidence of the electoral fraud they were exposing.

In the unpublished presentation, flanked by another lawyer, Giuliani began by talking about a movie, “My Friend Vinny,” then said the electronic counting system changed Trump’s votes to Biden’s ranks and linked this electoral company to Chavismo in Venezuela, Cuba and the alleged fraud involved George Soros, Antifa, the media, the Democratic Party, state authorities and others to report a conspiracy to commit “massive fraud”, without ever presenting evidence as requested. Just accusations, just words.

About a hundred journalists who challenged the coronavirus in a crowded hall of Congress listened to him and saw him sweating, nervous, drinking water from a bottle, looking down. Until something happens that catches the eye and becomes a trending topic: a drop of brownish sweat started to slip from her hair and it crossed her whole face.

Then others followed, sparking a series of speculation. Were the temples of his glasses fading? Was it the hair dye that wasn’t firm and didn’t stand up to sweat? Was it makeup for the running athletes? Stylists noted that the drip was probably due in the shade of a pencil used to fill in the legs.

Anyway, it was a faithful representation of this forced staging and that All the argument has collapsed, fades away.

Asked by Clarín about this episode which made all Washington, social networks and humorous programs talk about him, Erik P. Bucy, professor of strategic communication at Texas Tech University, declared that “of an administration and a president provided some of the strangest and most disturbed moments in American public life, Giuliani’s “ Rimmel’s bullfight ” at your press conference you must be among the strangest moments. Besides looking unconvincing and unprofessional, the sweat dripping from Guiliani’s forehead was an honest sign of your stress, ironically, of having to make false accusations of electoral fraud“.

An expert in non-verbal language, Bucy adds that “as Trump’s personal lawyer, Giuliani is paid to make comments that reflect his employer’s interests, but he has failed to suppress the stress reaction he had by making these false statements. When the sweating peaked, drops of what seemed hair dye ran down both sides of her face, submitting an incredibly amateurish portrait, all the while attempting to make a monumental statement on alleged electoral fraud. “

He points out that “as social media memes and late-night comedies point out, this image completely distracted whatever message you are trying to send. Rather, he communicated the image of a bankrupt politician who literally “fled” under intense pressure. Any credibility Giuliani had left in politics probably vanished at that point. “

Chris Krebs, one of the top Justice Department officials, sacked this week via Twitter by Trump, said “this hour and 45 minute televised press conference was the most dangerous in state history. -United. Yes maybe the craziest“.

Krebs, who was the head of the Infrastructure and Cyber ​​Security Agency, was frighteningly sacked after refuting theories that voter fraud took place during the presidential elections.

Patrick Stewart, professor of political science, expert on non-verbal language in politics and political psychology at the University of Arkansas, said Bugle that “one can expect a heavy sweat during a long press conference, however, like the sweating of Richard Nixon during his debate with John F. Kennedy, such an indicator of stress is always viewed negatively by viewers.

The unusual thing is that when Giuliani returned to answer the press and their questions, he had his hair dye staining his entire face. This suggests that he does not have collaborators who feel free to warn him or take care of him or that he does not pay attention to his immediate collaborators, because this is a major mistake in visual politics ”.

“Also, I suggest observing other activities, like when your hands touch your face or cover your mouth. These are indicators of stress and, sometimes, lies, deception. For example, when he didsignature on a national plot and covered his mouth. It’s a form of displacement, sometimes related to deception“.

Giuliani’s sweaty lecture, Georgia’s manual tally (which he again gave in favor of Biden), as well as the rejection of several of the lawsuits show that the strategy of Trump, who is reluctant to admit defeat to the 3 November elections, it does not work.

Even several Republican senators, led by Mitt Romney, have condemned in recent hours the attempts by the team of legal advisers to reverse the results, seeing them as an “undemocratic” initiative.

Republican Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse warned that “wild press conferences” like this Thursday “erode public confidence“. Sasse also pointed out that “Trump’s lawyers have refused to repeat these suspicions of fraud before a judge because they know the legal consequences of lying in court.”