The FBI raided the Manhattan home and office of Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and seized the bug-eyed attorney’s electronic devices. The federal probe is examining the former New York City mayor’s interactions with Ukrainian figures and whether he violated a federal law that governs lobbying on behalf of foreign countries or entities. Giuliani is about to learn that loyalty to Donald Trump is a one-way street. Trump addressed the matter last month to say: “It’s, like, so unfair.” Trump isn’t showing much support for his former personal attorney, and according to The Daily Beast, Giuliani is on his own.
“Trump’s silence has led to simmering frustrations among members of Giuliani’s inner orbit, who privately allege that the ex-president’s team is working to convince him to hang Giuliani out to dry in his hour of need,” the report states.
“It’s a question now of whether or not [the former president and his team] want to leave Rudy to fend for himself or if they’re going to take a stand against this,” one person close to Giuliani told the outlet last week. “Right now, we don’t know.”
“Among Giuliani allies’ pleas, the three sources said, have been for Trump to issue a strong verbal or written statement saying Giuliani’s work during the Trump-Ukraine saga was done on behalf of then-President Trump—and therefore not part of an illegal foreign lobbying effort,” the outlet reports. “In other words, Trump’s corroboration would be more than good public relations for Giuliani, it would back up a key pillar of Giuliani’s legal argument that he wasn’t lobbying and is innocent of the allegations.”
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“Other asks have included having the ex-president sign on to a legal motion to have federal investigators throw out any seized communications that Giuliani and his lawyers argue are covered by attorney-client privilege,” the report continues. “Further, there have been repeated requests that Trump and his team financially aid Giuliani’s ballooning legal defense and help cover the mounting, sizable expenses.”
“Two people close to Trump say they have urged the former president to lay low on the matter and to refrain from making too many statements or commitments on Giuliani and the federal probe,” the outlet reports. “These people have told Trump that it’s unclear what the feds have and that any statement could backfire both on him and on Giuliani. Moreover, various people in Trump’s social and political orbits have been trying to convince the former president for years that Giuliani has been too great a liability for him, and they have suggested that he cut the lawyer loose.”
“The two sources close to the former president each said Trump has repeatedly expressed sympathy for Giuliani’s ongoing woes but has not committed to overtly assisting his personal lawyer yet,” the report adds. “Another person familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that Giuliani has said he remains convinced that Trump won’t abandon him and will step up when the time is right.”
Giuliani should know better since Trump threw his former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, under the bus, and he ended up doing time in prison. Trump hasn’t even given Giuliani a shout-out on his crappy blog.
You can read the full report here.
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