Down Goes Rudy -This letter is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

(“Giuliani Finds Price of Lying Is $148 Million” )

This was not how Rudy Giuliani imagined the last years of his life. Once the law and order boss of New York City, a dalliance at the Republican nomination for president. Now but a punchline, disgraced and, to the outside world, broke and broken.

Just another piece of collateral damage in the orbit of Donald Trump. Mr. Giuliani, trying desperately to keep his 15 minutes of fame going a few more seconds, acted with clear calculation and no moral restriction, doing anything and everything to please his boss.

The image of Mr. Giuliani walking resolute through the rubble of 9/11, defiant and determined, has long ago faded from sight. The glory days forever gone. Now, all that remains is a sad, pathetic hollowed-out shell of a man.