Then she set her up to be the fall guy?
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There's a fall guy emerging here for Trump: Rudy Giuliani.
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Environmental regulation is always the fall guy for the Republican Party.
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I mean, my God, somebody's got to be the fall guy.
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No, there must be a fall guy with less shimmering tresses.
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Jonathan Schmitz was sort of like a fall guy in their conspiracy.
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She asked me to be her "fall guy" on a number of assignments.
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Josh Lambo—Somebody has be the fall guy when the Browns beat you.
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Houston will be looking for a fall guy if things don't go well.
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"You seem to have been the designated fall guy for this report," said Sen.
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Trump needs a fall guy, and Powell at the Fed is perfect for that.
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Ever wonder what happened to Paul Bremer, the fall guy for the Iraq War?
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I think the expectation was that he was going to be the fall guy.
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Slightly shy, Hugh is the grounding constant and solid fall guy to David's comic commentary.
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She designated Dr. Gilbert (Seth Barrish) a fall guy — and he wound up in jail.
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And especially if Trump manages to squeak through unscathed, someone will be a fall guy.
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"Stone lied and tried to use Credico as the fall guy for everything," Zelinsky said.
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Bannon is already set up to be the fall guy whether Moore wins or loses.
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In a normal campaign, a fall guy would have been identified and probably fired almost immediately.
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He was cashiered from his post and viewed as the most prominent fall guy for the operation.
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"It seems like somebody's trying to make you the fall guy, doesn't it, Mr. Broeksmit?" an anchor asked.
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He was duly sacked—as a fall guy, the president's critics say; as a lone bad apple, he insists.
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What's more, he shifted his story in a self-exculpatory way, apparently designed to avoid becoming a fall guy.
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He showed up in person as the defendant in the legal drama who refuses to be the fall guy.
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"If Trump said, 'I need you to be the fall guy,' he would probably say, 'fine,'" the person said.
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HIS POINT WAS THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO WIN NO MATTER WHAT, LARRY, YOU COULD BE THE FALL GUY.
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Continuing Qureshi's bank robbery analogy, Weletz said that her client was "the fall guy" for the actual criminals that day.
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"He's not the fall guy... This is a mutual agreement within the board," he told reporters on a conference call.
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To the north of Los Angeles and at higher elevations, up to 220 feet of snow could fall, Guy said.
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Because of their volatile, drug-fueled marriage, Houston's former husband Bobby Brown became the first symbolic fall guy for her demise.
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Some very slow burners, and some other ones that made me feel like a "fall guy" at a garden tool expo.
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Some very slow burners, and some other ones that made me feel like a "fall guy" at a garden tool expo.
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Trending down: The fall guy for some of Facebook's policy missteps over the past two years never actually took the fall.
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In recent days, there have been signs that Sondland was being set up as a fall guy in the Ukraine scandal.
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Karpeles then planted the diary, the chat transcripts, and other files onto Ulbricht's computer, thus setting him up as the fall guy.
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Another scheme, another fall guy, another way for top dogs like Chuck, Bobby and Taylor to manipulate frenemies into doing their bidding.
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He accused the mall's security guard roster of corruption, and that he was the "fall guy," according to The New York Times.
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Clue of the Day for me is "Fall guy?" for SKYDIVER, with a close second going to the silly "HI hi" for ALOHA.
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But, as it relates to the trouble he finds himself in on Russia, it's Sessions who has become the fall guy for Trump.
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He's a lumbering monster, an easy fall guy (who actually does die of a fall) for the anxieties and fears of liberal America.
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But for everyone else, Manafort may be the perfect fall guy for the White House, the anti-Trumpers, and even special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
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Perhaps he became the fall guy because his bosses suspected he was gay, or simply because his secret prevented him from bonding with them.
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If the Trump organization was going to make the speechwriter the fall guy, it should have offered a more plausible explanation for what occurred.
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Line: Vikings by 2 Because every four-game plunge needs a fall guy, the Vikings released kicker Blair Walsh, who missed four extra points.
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If you feel like someone is pressuring you to be the Leg Man in their heist, or possibly even the Fall Guy, you're probably right.
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Lasdun's oeuvre, which includes the novels The Horned Man, Seven Lies, and The Fall Guy, is remarkably consistent in its themes: paranoia, inept masculinity, stalking.
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Many analysts considered that Mr. Bárcenas, after years of close service to the Popular Party and its top leaders, was being made the fall guy.
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The defense has argued Guzman was set up as a "fall guy" by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a Sinaloan drug kingpin who remains at large.
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The defense argued that Guzman was set up as a "fall guy" by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a drug kingpin from Sinaloa who remains at large.
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Guzman's lawyers did not deny his crimes as much as argue he was a fall guy for government witnesses who were more evil than he was.
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"I try to be the bad guy, the fall guy for the Realtor," said Hadley, who always explains her staging philosophy to the seller before starting.
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Guzman's lawyers say he was set up as a "fall guy" by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a powerful drug lord from Sinaloa who remains at large.
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Mr. Rosenstein, who was upset when the White House initially tried to make him the fall guy for Mr. Comey's dismissal, showed similar independence on Wednesday.
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"I appear to be the 'fall guy' for their plan to 'disappear' the office of children's health," Etzel wrote Tuesday in an email obtained by BuzzFeed.
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They appeared in the TV show The Fall Guy, with an episode named after them; the team were also cast for a scene in Chevy Chase's Fletch.
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The newly minted American ambassador was the perfect fall guy for the Kremlin — manna from heaven for Putin's election effort, as one senior Russian official put it.
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But it's at least possible that the fall guy for the Definers story is still working on one of the things that he publicly took the fall for.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said that Barr, who also served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, seemed to be the "designated fall guy" for the report.
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If things go south, the vice president could become a fall guy, jeopardizing not only Trump's shot at reelection but his own shot at being crowned his successor.
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In his own mind, and in the minds of many of my Republican friends here in this corner of Iowa, Mr. Trump can never be the fall guy.
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The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that the Saudi regime had identified a two-star general who is new to intelligence work to be the fall guy for the death.
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The Atlético defender was the only man to miss in the shootout, the fall guy whose shot hit the base of a post and failed to cross the line.
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The Times reported that McGahn's willingness to be forthcoming with Mueller was partially borne out of a fear the president was going to use him as a fall guy.
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You get the impression Leporello isn't so much his playful servant as a man both afraid and trapped, destined to be a disposable fall guy when the moment comes.
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By 1987, North had been made the fall guy for Iran-Contra, fired by President Reagan for it, and was ready to tell the whole sordid tale to Congress.
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"The Paris police chief is only a fall guy supposed to cover for Castaner's blatant incompetence," Jordan Bardella, far-right Marine Le Pen's candidate for European elections said on Twitter.
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McSweeny also noted that she believed there's a possibility Pai is simply setting up the FTC to be the fall guy when the ISPs begin forcing customers into walled gardens.
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So either Cohen exists and cleverly set up Wohl as his fall guy, or Wohl was LARPing as an international super-spy using his mom's phone number and personal email.
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But whether or not Trump's kids engineered his downfall—and there's no reason to doubt that they did—Lewandowski is little more than a fall guy for Trump's recent troubles.
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But he's also facing federal charges for allegedly running a fake scrap metal empire that involved setting up a blind man as the fall guy and extorting people at gunpoint.
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If the Lakers struggle (which is definitely possible if LeBron doesn't want to lead the league in minutes as a 34-year-old), Walton will probably be the fall guy.
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The episode also features the return of Dr. Ari Gilbert (Seth Barrish), whose dirty deals with Axe made him a fall guy as the Chuck-and-Bobby war wound down.
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Birdman is tired of being the fall guy for Lil Wayne, and insists there's no way Cash Money can drop "Tha Carter V" ... because Weezy's the one holding the master recordings.
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Pascal, who acts as Greek chorus to "The Fall Guy," said that all of man's misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.
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As pressure on Trump continues to grow amid the first US presidential impeachment inquiry in two decades, reports are emerging that senior Republicans are considering using Giuliani as a fall guy.
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In Pickton: In His Own Words, the former British Columbia pig farmer claims he's "the fall guy" in a justice system that wrongfully convicted him for the murders of six women.
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Mr. Kushner's father, Charles, has urged his son to hang on, arguing that otherwise he will become the fall guy for White House mistakes, according to someone in Jared Kushner's circle.
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At trial, Dratel conceded Ulbricht created Silk Road but contended he handed the website off to others and was lured back later to become the "fall guy" for its true operators.
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And yet there can be little doubt that he is a fall guy in Trump's web of misconduct, and these days he looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
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Speculation swirled about whether, perhaps, elements within the Chinese government supported He's work to get ahead of other countries also experimenting with CRISPR technology, later using He as a fall guy.
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One player, using his in-game name "Stylo," tells me of walking into a building wearing the same color cloak as another PC and becoming the fall guy for their crimes.
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Officials in Riyadh are reportedly preparing their own document that will claim Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation gone wrong, pinning the blame on a fall guy within Saudi intelligence.
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Mr. Butts's resignation cast him both as the government's chosen fall guy and an independent fighter who could freely defend his reputation, unencumbered by the government's strict script and rules of confidentiality.
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In its frantic efforts at damage control following that firing, the administration has attempted to put the blame on Rosenstein, who supposedly considered resigning over being singled out as the fall guy.
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This narrative poses a critical question: If the main character is a fall guy—and thus, by implication, a victim of miscarried justice—where does the "epic trail of destruction" emanate from?
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Mr. Enrich effectively uses the unique access he secured to the mildly autistic UBS trader, Tom Hayes, who became the fall guy for the unfolding scandal, to produce a surprisingly human narrative.
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He could just as easily become the fall guy if the president grows unhappy with the speed or nature of the virus' transmission, or the increasingly intense media coverage surrounding the administration's actions.
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But even they end this episode compromised and defeated, with Sandoval offering himself as the fall guy for the government's failure to contain Escobar at La Catedral and keep the peace in Colombia.
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"She was the fall guy for everyone who'd lost his job, or had a hefty tax bill, or was angry about his lot in life and the direction of his country," he writes.
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If there's a golden mean between Child's crisp technique and Kay's melancholy, lovely one, the English novelist James Lasdun may have found it in his exceptionally entertaining new book, THE FALL GUY (Norton, $25.95).
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Instead, Owens seemed to argue that the Cowboys coaching staff and other execs are pushing the negative narratives to create a fall guy ... so they can then fire that guy and look like heroes.
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The attorney Robert Costello said he made his client, Rudy Giuliani, call President Donald Trump to clarify that he did not have "insurance" for if the president were to make him a fall guy.
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"I appear to be the 'fall guy' for their plan to 'disappear' the office of children's health," Etzel wrote Tuesday to the leader of a nonprofit, in an email shared widely among academics and advocates.
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Schrage's departure has been in train for some months, but a leaked internal memo we obtained this week suggests he's being packaged up as a convenient fall guy for a freshly cracked public relations scandal.
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BLOOD BROTHER The singer Trey Songz stars as a police officer whose old friend (Jack Kesy), just released from prison, seeks revenge on him and others, thinking he was the fall guy for their crime.
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As he did in The Spider Network, Enrich presents a tragic-hero-as-fall-guy, this time in the character of William Broeksmit, a Deutsche Bank derivatives expert and executive who killed himself in 2014.
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He's called McGregor everything from a dirtbag to a bum fighter -- and insinuated that he was set up by McGregor's people to be a fall guy in order to make Conor look like a legit boxer.
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Indeed, Mr. Trump effectively sided with the party establishment by helping to orchestrate his former aide's political banishment, making Mr. Bannon the fall guy for an embarrassing string of political setbacks, most notably Mr. Moore's defeat.
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Being the skillful politician that he is, Trump will also find it highly useful to keep setting Powell up as the fall guy to take the blame for any faltering in the U.S. economy next year.
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READ: A "body double" left the Saudi consulate wearing Khashoggi's clothes With these lurid new details, Qahtani may end up being the fall guy in all of this, but his previous statements may haunt the kingdom.
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Not because I can't take it, but because I can—I can just take a lot, from other people, unbothered, unstressed—and so I end up the fall guy, the loser finding themselves on someone else's terms.
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And that leaves Bryan's now-former boss in the Eastern District, Chuck's old enemy Oliver Dake, as the last fall guy standing, if not for long: Jeffcoat fires him to show that fighting crime unsuccessfully doesn't pay.
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At the trial, Guzman's lawyers argued that he was the fall guy for other kingpins who were better at paying off top Mexican politicians and law enforcement officials to protect them while the US government looked the other way.
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Before he makes his decision on whether to protect his informant by setting up an "innocent" fall guy at Axe, his erosion of principles begins with the more modest sin of leaking a redacted book chapter to the press.
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Beyond trying to pressure the Fed into not making moves he thinks might slow down the stock market and economy, Trump's criticism of the Fed also sets it — and, specifically, Powell — up as the fall guy if things do go south.
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Mr. Trump, who believes his re-election prospects are threatened most by Mr. Biden, and Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, who has been working for years to make Ukraine the fall guy for his own interference in the 2016 election.
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During the health care debate, several Democrats were quietly grateful to Lieberman for spiking the Medicare expansion — agreeing to serve as the fall guy who would take the hit from liberals even while they quietly agreed with him on the merits.
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But while the exchange surprised some, it's actually right on brand for both WikiLeaks and Trump Jr. For the president's son, it's yet another sketchy (and vaguely Russia-linked) dalliance that makes him look more like a fall guy than a conspirator.
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LONDON (Reuters) - While global markets would hail a U.S.-China trade deal, fears are growing that the European Union could be the fall guy in any breakthrough, which would allow Donald Trump to turn his attention to German cars or French luxury wines.
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They allege that another Sinaloa cartel boss, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García, was the real leader, but he escaped punishment by paying off high-level officials in the Mexican government (including current President Enrique Peña Nieto), leaving Guzmán to be the fall guy.
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The precursor of the Trump fall guy Michael Cohen is the equally abject Abraham Wallach, who, in a familiar trope, won Trump's attention by going on TV as a competing real estate developer and ridiculing the price Trump had paid for the Plaza.
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"This sure has echoes of Richard Nixon's White House counsel, John Dean, who in 1973 feared that Nixon was setting him up as a fall guy for Watergate and secretly gave investigators crucial help while still in his job," historian Michael Beschloss told the Times.
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At the height of the battle against E Corp, Elliot dissociated entirely; there are now three days he can't remember, during which time he suspects the Mr. Robot side of his personality may have murdered the missing Wellick, the fall guy for the hack.
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"The Fall Guy" reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith, and while often novelists who write as finely as he does seem to feel above what Jonathan Franzen once called the "stoop work" of narrative, Lasdun is masterly in his story's construction.
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"I was the weak link ... my case has been used to settle scores, it's taken on proportions... I won't say I was the fall-guy, I'm just saying it served various interests, an interest to get at the president of the republic," Benalla said.
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"This sure has echoes of Richard Nixon's White House counsel, John Dean, who in 1973 feared that Nixon was setting him up as a fall guy for Watergate and secretly gave investigators crucial help while still in his job," said the historian Michael Beschloss.
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"I recognize that the reputation I have cultivated as an extreme partisan and a rogue make me a convenient fall guy for the Democrats, but I refuse to play the patsy role they have in mind for me," said Mr. Stone, a self-professed dirty trickster.
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Dreyfuss never loses sight of who Madoff is, but he also never lets us forget the human toll of the situation — not to mention the fact that it's a little ridiculous how Madoff became a major fall guy for an economic catastrophe he didn't really play any part in.
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Julian Schnabel has occupied many roles through the years: the default figurehead of the star-studded 403s art world; the fall guy for that era's particular brand of monied hedonism; an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker; for some, the greatest painter of his time — and others, the most overrated.
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But making Woodard the fall guy for Will's murder and Julie's disappearance does bring "True Detective" back to the Arkansas of the West Memphis Three, where the desire to find justice quickly prevents a more thorough and credible investigation — especially when the person or persons involved are societal outcasts.
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The absurdity of his defense — that he was merely the fall guy for the real boss, El Mayo — was laid bare by mountains of evidence, including thousands of incriminating BlackBerry messages that showed Chapo to be a micromanaging control freak, who obsessively monitored the status of even lowly marijuana shipments.
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Flynn—who was set up as a fall guy only a week into Trump's term—not only (potentially unlawfully) discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador three weeks before Trump's inauguration, but also apparently lied to Vice President Mike Pence about it, damaging the administration's congressional GOP whisperer's credibility in the process.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Swing Time" by Zadie Smith "The Fall Guy" by James Lasdun "War and Turpentine" by Stefan Hertmans "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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The problem with being the mostly silent hardworking nice girl is that you also might end up the fall guy — the one who stays up all night finishing the project while your less-diligent peers knock off, the one who simply smiles tightly as a male colleague takes credit for your work.
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The book had been listed as a memoir by Pickton, 66, who is serving a life sentence at a prison in the Canadian province of British Columbia Calling himself "the fall guy" on the book's jacket, Pickton had noted he is accused of murdering "between 6 and 49 women" and is finally telling his story.
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His predecessor Don McGahn left the White House in dramatic fashion last year after he was revealed to have voluntarily sat for over 30 hours of testimony with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible obstruction of justice by Trump after he became concerned that Trump was trying to make him his fall guy.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Transit" by Rachel Cusk "The Sellout" by Paul Beatty "Avid Reader" by Robert Gottlieb "The Children Act" by Ian McEwan "The Fall Guy" by James Lasdun We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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We don't really know how close he actually came to accepting an offer from Phil Jackson in May 2014 to coach the Knicks — only that Kerr had understandable reservations about becoming the frontman, or fall guy, for the newly minted Team Triangle before an offer he couldn't refuse from the Golden State Warriors made it a moot point.
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Goodell—perhaps the highest paid fall guy in the world—always deserves to be booed by a stadium full of angry drunks, but he especially deserves it after leading a Benghazi-ish witch hunt against Tom Brady, which led the Patriots quarterback and Friend of Donald Trump to be suspended for the first four games of the season.
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The answer to that question will unlock much of what follows.) Bobby, Wendy and Chuck agree there that, in order to spare themselves, they will have to find a fall guy, and for the rest of the episode, all three of them use (ahem) all their powers and all their skills to make Dr. Gilbert into that guy.
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" But two individuals said Redfield was wrongly being set up by some HHS officials as the fall guy for the administration's biggest coronavirus misstep — the lab-testing failure — arguing that the CDC chief had worked to speed the tests while advocating for a fallback lab-testing option but was waiting on Azar's permission to move forward on Plan B. "He's great on this," said one senior administration official, adding that Redfield is "busting his ass with a very hard job [and] working harder than any other senior official at HHS.
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