The US election political drama continues to unfold weeks after polls across America closed on November 3. This time US President Donald Trump took a backseat, allowing his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to take center stage, under the spotlight.
On Friday morning, Trump’s legal team, which is headed by Giuliani, claimed once again widespread voter fraud - despite no concrete evidence being presented.
In the press conference held at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Giuliani made. They include alleging there were “overvotes” in Michigan, that more than 600,000 ballots in Pennsylvania should be made “null and void”, and that mail-in ballots were “prone to fraud”.
One of the chief claims of the Trump team was the lack of Republican observers in the state of Pennsylvania. Giuliani, a son of Brooklyn, decided to give a pop culture reference to explain his claims of voter fraud.
"Did you all watch My Cousin Vinny? You know the movie? It's one of my favourite law movies, because he comes from Brooklyn," he said in the press conference.
In the film, Joe Pesci plays a personal injury lawyer who is tasked to defend his client in a murder trial. Pesci's character manages to convince the jury that the main witnesses may have impaired vision.
"And when the nice lady said she saw...And then he says to her, 'How many fingers do I...How many fingers do I got up? And she says three. Oh, she was too far away to see it was only two," said Giuliani.
"These people [the poll observers] were further away than My Cousin Vinny was from the witness. They couldn't see a thing," he said.
Despite Guiliani's claims, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice has ruled the Philadelphia County's election board followed the correct procedure and the law.
While Giuliani, and the rest of Trump’s legal team, were giving their thoughts on the outcome of the election -- he began to sweat.
The attention of the press conference on social media shifted immediately from the claims of voter fraud to what people have suggested was hair dye dripping on the side of Giuliani's face.
Some outlets have reported that the official Trump YouTube stream showing the live press conference had audio running in the background saying, "you see f**king Rudy's hair dye dripping down his face?"
Filmmaker Albert Brooks weighed in saying on Twitter, "If I were Rudy Giuliani I would stop with these bullshit lawsuits and spend my time suing Just For Men."
While others suggested they were now less impressed by comic Sasha Baron Cohen's efforts to "trick" Giuliani in the recent Borat film.
CNN political analyst and former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart didn't hold back on his feelings about the press conference.
"The Republican party today was represented by @RudyGiuliani and two other nutcases spinning wild conspiracies and dripping hair dye. Democrats were represented by President Elect Joe Biden and VP Elect Kamala Harris. Notice the difference?"
One social media user said, "You know its getting bad when your own hair dye wants to distance itself from you."
