When we last checked in on Rudy Giuliani, things were not looking so hot for the former federal prosecutor turned Donald Trump attorney turned old man yelling at an empty blender. For starters, he’d recently had his home and office raided by the Feds, who seized nearly a dozen cell phones and computers as part of their criminal probe into his Ukraine dealings. Subsequent to that, he had his law license suspended in both New York and D.C. over the many election lies he’d told, and in one of the many new books out about Trump, it was reported that when it became clear that Trump was probably going to lose, an allegedly inebriated Giuliani “started to cause a commotion…telling other guests that he had come up with a strategy for Trump,” insisting the campaign should “Just say we won,” which it did. Amid all of this, Giuliani didn’t even have his cousin-wife’s shoulder to lean on. And sadly, things continue to look quite to very bleak for the guy who went from “America’s mayor” to “Two weeks away from being thrown out of the Port Authority for disorderly conduct.”
On Monday, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reported that while Trump has amassed a huge war chest (in part by scamming his supporters), Giuliani’s financial picture has become extremely grim (which probably shouldn’t come as a surprise given his friends have taken to crowdfunding money for his legal defense):
According to Haberman, even if Trump did have a heart, which medical professionals say he does not—a Denny’s grand slam breakfast can be seen on MRIs where the blood-pumping organ should be—he’s unlikely to take pity on Giuliani and cough up some cash. (“Trump aides have been clear they see no mechanism for paying Giuliani’s legal bills that isn’t problematic for Trump, and they think Giuliani took actions a lawyer should have known were problematic, even if the client wanted it,” Haberman said in a tweet.)
And speaking of “problematic” actions, in an interview on Friday about the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Giuliani veered off topic to insist the criminal investigation into him is “lawless” and that he’d done nothing wrong, but is nevertheless fine with going to prison, something innocent people don’t usually say. Per Insider:
Despite claiming he’s happy to go to prison, in May a person close to Trump told CNN, “Even the most loyal people have their breaking point,” and that the prospect of time behind bars could get Giuliani to flip and cooperate against Trump, saying a shift in Giuliani’s loyalty “wouldn’t shock me at all.”
“I think we’ve seen some more surprising instances of things like that happening, especially with Michael Cohen,” the person said.
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