Rudy is like a box of chocolates on any given day you don’t know what you’re going to get, you only know that it’s either going to be completely nutty or some kind of unwanted gross fruity stuff, or it will be old and stale.

Today, Rudy was stale nutty, but he did have something worth chewing on.

In talking to NBC New York, Rudy called the investigation into him completely “lawless,” which is interesting given these types of statements are generally reserved for those who have actually been arrested. Generally, if someone knows they’re being investigated and must talk to the press (which he shouldn’t do) the answer is: “I am happy to be investigated because the facts will show that I did nothing wrong.” Instead, Rudy acted like he’s already been arrested by criticizing the investigation:

“I committed no crime, and if you think I committed a crime, you’re probably really stupid, because you don’t know who I am,” Giuliani said, as an investigation looms into whether he was working as an unregistered lobbyist for Ukrainian officials.

As of yet, know one in a D.A.’s office has said he committed a crime.

He said that he was working for then-President Donald Trump as his lawyer at the time. “Is the guy who put the mafia in jail, terrorists in jail, Ed Koch’s commissioners in jail, and the worst people on Wall Street — I’m not going to file (a form)? I mean, that’s just crazy,” he said.

That is the enigma that is Rudy. It is easy to laugh at him now because he’s become a complete parody of himself. But at one point in time, Rudy was one of the most respected prosecutors in the country. One doesn’t just fall into the top job at SDNY, Rudy really was good. That doesn’t mean that he can do all of that “good stuff” and be covered should he quite obviously break the law. It just doesn’t work that way.

Rudy also had a strange message, a message that is strange even for Rudy:

“I am more than willing to go to jail if they want to put me in jail. And if they do, they’re going to suffer the consequences in heaven,” he said. “I’m not, I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Now that is an odd statement. This man hasn’t been arrested yet. Now if we put our very cynical hat on, that second clause reads almost like a threat. Arrest me and you will have an issue in “heaven” perhaps leaving out an implied point, soon enough. Recall that Rudy was the one who at one point mentioned (while Trump was president) that he wasn’t worried about his “health” (the concerns were intermixed with legal issues) and Rudy said outright, “I have insurance.”

It looks to us like Rudy is already talking to the U.S. Attorneys and he’s been told what he might be charged with unless he has something to offer. The “arrest thing might not be about the arrest so much as a threat at anyone coming after him, that he’s protected.

Remember, Rudy’s friends, the ones that got him in trouble in the first place were people associated with organized crime in Ukraine and Russia. If Rudy goes down, they might go down. There could be warnings going out everywhere. It is very odd. The Italian Mafia in the United States were cold-blooded and did awful things, and yet they still had a code, no family, certain untouchable, no torture, etc. The Russian Mafia has no code, and… well, we can’t prove anything but Rudy’s statement is just damned odd. We know nothing more.

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