During a press conference this week, Rudy Giuliani assembled President Donald Trump’s legal team in an effort to show that the president actually carried the election.
At one moment in the event, Giuliani quoted lines from the 1992 film “My Cousin Vinny” starring Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci to demonstrate his point that the poll watchers were too far away from the ballots.
Giuliani was arguing that the poll watchers were too far away from the ballots — an argument which was among the Trump campaign’s first in their effort to contest the election. In Philadelphia, the Trump lawyers secured an early win with the argument when a judge ruled that poll watchers must be allowed six feet of the ballot counting.
In an effort to add anecdotal support to his argument, the former New York City mayor asked the gathered reporters, “Did you all watch ‘My Cousin Vinny’? You know the movie?”
After a few confused mumbles from the press, Giuliani set the scene, saying, “It’s one of my favorite law movies. ‘Cause he comes from Brooklyn. And when the nice lady who said she saw and then he says to her, ‘How many fingers do I got up?’ And she says, ‘Three’ — well she was too far away to see that it was only two.”
Giuliani followed his cinema anecdote by saying that the poll watchers “were further away than My Cousin Vinny was from the witness. They couldn’t see a thing.”
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Rudy Giuliani: "Did you all watch My Cousin Vinny? You know the movie? It's one of my favorite law movies, because he comes from Brooklyn."
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He then argued to the press that they are not asking President-elect Joe Biden tough questions, saying, “He doesn’t get asked questions about all the evidence of the crimes that he committed.”
Giuliani then said that the poll watchers were not allowed to inspect the mail-in ballots that were counted last “because you knew you were going to use those ballots to catch Biden up and you had a big road ahead of you. You had to catch him up for 700,000 to 800,000 votes that he was behind. And the only way you were going to do it were with the mail-in ballots.”