--- title: A Witch Weighs in on Rudy Giuliani's Tweet Witch Hunts description: He compared the Mueller investigation to witch hunts canonical: https://time.com/5493616/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-witches-tweet/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-03T23:04:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:41.676Z og:title: A Witch Weighs In On Rudy Giuliani's 'Witch Hunt' Tweet og:description: He compared the Mueller investigation to witch hunts og:url: https://time.com/5493616/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-witches-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ae4e92bbd786ac/698942a522fb8597f8e27831/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-mueller-investigation.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Indiana GOP Candidates Hold Get Out The Vote Rallies Ahead Of Midterm Election Day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Witch Weighs In On Rudy Giuliani's 'Witch Hunt' Tweet twitter:description: He compared the Mueller investigation to witch hunts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ae4e92bbd786ac/698942a522fb8597f8e27831/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-mueller-investigation.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Witch Weighs In On Rudy Giuliani's 'Witch Hunt' Tweet > Sponsored content. 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Bernstein/Getty Images) FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, IN - NOVEMBER 03: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives to campaign for Republican Senate hopeful Mike Braun on November 3, 2018 in Franklin Township, Indiana. Braun is locked in a tight race with incumbent Democrat Sen. Joe Donnelly. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) Aaron P. Bernstein—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 3, 2019 11:04 PM UTC [Rudy Giuliani](http://time.com/5371650/rudy-giuliani-truth-isnt-truth/) was slammed on Wednesday night after he sent a late-night, jumbled tweet about witches, in which he compared the [Mueller investigation](http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217584/robert-mueller/) to witch hunts. The former mayor of New York City, who is now acting as President Donald Trump’s attorney, complained about witches taking umbrage at those who have called Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump-Russian collusion in the 2016 election, “a witch hunt.” In the tweet, which contained a misspelling of Mueller’s last name, Giuliani claimed that CNN said that “witches favor Democrats” and that there was “no reason for the witches to be offended because Witch Hund derives from, for example, the Salem Witch Hunts were people were executed unjustly.” While Giuliani tweeted his post on Wednesday night, there’s chance that it was referencing a CNN segment that aired over the holidays about witches who were upset over Donald Trump using the term in regards to the Mueller investigation. > [](https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1080675822145597440) Giuliani’s tweet, however, isn’t the biggest issue bothering some witches. [Dakota Bracciale](http://time.com/5442528/brett-kavanaugh-hex/), a witch based in Brooklyn, New York, who made headlines in Fall 2018 for holding a public ritual to hex Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh thinks that Giuliani’s tweet was fairly harmless, although somewhat ironic. “In my opinion, he was never right to begin with,” Bracciale tells _TIME_. He and Trump are both people that clearly don’t need to be let near the Internet, but the tweet itself, I found to be mostly innocuous.” But Bracciale does believe that Trump and Giuliani are using a “witch hunt” narrative to infer that they are victims. “Does it offend me as a witch? No. Does it offend me as a decent human being? Yes,” he said. “Because what this is is basically just textbook gaslighting, this is the abuser, the aggressor dressing themselves up in the language that is used to refer to the victims of their aggression.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5493616/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-witches-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5493616/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-witches-tweet/"},"headline":"A Witch Weighs In On Rudy Giuliani's 'Witch Hunt' Tweet","datePublished":"2019-01-03T23:04:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:41.676Z","description":"He compared the Mueller investigation to witch hunts","url":"https://time.com/5493616/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-witches-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ae4e92bbd786ac/698942a522fb8597f8e27831/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-mueller-investigation.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ae4e92bbd786ac/698942a522fb8597f8e27831/rudy-giuliani-witch-hunt-mueller-investigation.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Indiana GOP Candidates Hold Get Out The Vote Rallies Ahead Of Midterm Election Day","caption":"Indiana GOP Candidates Hold Get Out The Vote Rallies Ahead Of Midterm Election Day","creditText":"Aaron P. 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