Well, well, well. Another of Trump's attorneys DOES need his own lawyer.
Perhaps the fate of Giuliani will be similar to Michael Cohen's.While 2 of his partners were recently arrested, so far Giuliani has not.
But, perhaps that will change soon. As part of the fallout from the riveting recent Taylor testimony
before Congress, the conversations between Giuliani and Trump are about to be reviewed.
Although Giuliani recently fired an attorney, since claiming he didn't need one, now he is rushing to find an attorney. As Colbert pointed out last night, "if Giuliani is looking for a good lawyer, he should not look in his mirror".
From Vanity Fair yesterday;
In response to:
Rudy Giuliani Is Looking for His Own Lawyer
After ditching his previous attorney, saying it was “silly to have a lawyer when I don’t need one,” Rudy is reversing course.
By Eric Lutz
October 24, 2019
Donald Trump’s lawyer needs a lawyer. Just over a week after ditching his previous attorney, suggesting it was unnecessary for him to have legal representation, Rudy Giuliani is back on the hunt for a defense team, CNN reports. The move seems to reflect the precarious legal situation for the president’s personal attorney, who is the subject of a criminal probe but continues to insist that his shady work in Ukraine was on the level and that he and his client are being unfairly targeted.
“Let me make it clear that everything I did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges,” Giuliani wrote in a characteristically bizarre, self-pitying tweet Wednesday evening. “Dems would be horrified by the attacks on me, if my client was a terrorist. But they don’t believe has rights.”
Giuliani has made a habit of thumbing his nose at investigators. Claiming incorrectly last week that the Trump impeachment inquiry is “not authorized,” the former New York mayor vowed not to cooperate with the “abomination” and parted ways with his attorney. It would be “silly to have a lawyer when I don’t need one,” he told the New York Daily News last week. But with the pressure mounting in the impeachment inquiry after bombshell testimony by diplomat Bill Taylor detailed Trump’s efforts to arrange a quid pro quo with Kiev, and the criminal investigation into Giuliani now reportedly including a counterintelligence probe, it appears that having a lawyer no longer seems so “silly.”
Giuliani is smack in the center of the Ukraine scandal that has engulfed Trump’s presidency. Having helped spark the president’s conspiratorial thinking about the country, he publicly solicited a Ukrainian investigation into Joe Biden this spring and, it seems, ran something of a shadow State department for Trump. The president diverted work on issues related to Ukraine to Giuliani from traditional diplomatic channels, European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland testified last week. Trump’s lawyer—working with Sondland, Rick Perry, and envoy Kurt Volker—operated on an “irregular” foreign policy track that ran “contrary to the goals of longstanding U.S. policy” and that undercut America’s relationship with Ukraine, said Taylor, the charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine who objected to the approach in text messages.
Such revelations have been bad for both Trump and Giuliani, and they could get worse. In spite of desperate stunts from the president’s defenders, Democrats are continuing to investigate the apparent shakedown, reportedly accelerating the pace of their inquiry after testimony from Taylor. Meanwhile, a judge Wednesday ordered the release of communications between Trump, Giuliani, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo related to Ukraine. It’s perhaps no coincidence that reports of Giuliani looking to lawyer up emerged the same day Judge Christopher Cooper’s ruling came down. “The judge zeroed in on communications with Rudy Giuliani to be most subject to public disclosure,” American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers told reporters Wednesday.
Rudy Giuliani Is Looking for His Own Lawyer
After ditching his previous attorney, saying it was “silly to have a lawyer when I don’t need one,” Rudy is reversing course.
By Eric Lutz
October 24, 2019
Donald Trump’s lawyer needs a lawyer. Just over a week after ditching his previous attorney, suggesting it was unnecessary for him to have legal representation, Rudy Giuliani is back on the hunt for a defense team, CNN reports. The move seems to reflect the precarious legal situation for the president’s personal attorney, who is the subject of a criminal probe but continues to insist that his shady work in Ukraine was on the level and that he and his client are being unfairly targeted.
“Let me make it clear that everything I did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges,” Giuliani wrote in a characteristically bizarre, self-pitying tweet Wednesday evening. “Dems would be horrified by the attacks on me, if my client was a terrorist. But they don’t believe has rights.”
Giuliani has made a habit of thumbing his nose at investigators. Claiming incorrectly last week that the Trump impeachment inquiry is “not authorized,” the former New York mayor vowed not to cooperate with the “abomination” and parted ways with his attorney. It would be “silly to have a lawyer when I don’t need one,” he told the New York Daily News last week. But with the pressure mounting in the impeachment inquiry after bombshell testimony by diplomat Bill Taylor detailed Trump’s efforts to arrange a quid pro quo with Kiev, and the criminal investigation into Giuliani now reportedly including a counterintelligence probe, it appears that having a lawyer no longer seems so “silly.”
Giuliani is smack in the center of the Ukraine scandal that has engulfed Trump’s presidency. Having helped spark the president’s conspiratorial thinking about the country, he publicly solicited a Ukrainian investigation into Joe Biden this spring and, it seems, ran something of a shadow State department for Trump. The president diverted work on issues related to Ukraine to Giuliani from traditional diplomatic channels, European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland testified last week. Trump’s lawyer—working with Sondland, Rick Perry, and envoy Kurt Volker—operated on an “irregular” foreign policy track that ran “contrary to the goals of longstanding U.S. policy” and that undercut America’s relationship with Ukraine, said Taylor, the charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine who objected to the approach in text messages.
Such revelations have been bad for both Trump and Giuliani, and they could get worse. In spite of desperate stunts from the president’s defenders, Democrats are continuing to investigate the apparent shakedown, reportedly accelerating the pace of their inquiry after testimony from Taylor. Meanwhile, a judge Wednesday ordered the release of communications between Trump, Giuliani, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo related to Ukraine. It’s perhaps no coincidence that reports of Giuliani looking to lawyer up emerged the same day Judge Christopher Cooper’s ruling came down. “The judge zeroed in on communications with Rudy Giuliani to be most subject to public disclosure,” American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers told reporters Wednesday.
Comments (13)
Too funny...laughing....
I think his arrest won't happen until the evidence is iron clad, undisputed.
Look at the Bunch of foolish white Men who disrupted the impeachment hearing just because Trump told them to save his a**.
Trump is a dictator and the lawmakers, lawyers, and others are doing exactly what he dictates.
We Americans need to wake up before we lose our right to expression, liberty, ect.
Learn to differentiate FACTS from discrimination, ect.
“The problem is we need some money,” Giuliani says to an unidentified man during an accidental call to NBC News writer
Plus, it's unlikely that you would know as much about Trump living so far away from him.
However, it seems, that even so far away, you can easily recognize now. that the election of Trump was a huge mistake, one of the worst the USA ever made.
S - I'm glad you had a nice dinner.
sense of what he says.
It's not clear yet what all Rudy has been up to lately, working for the president for free while raking in millions from foreign contacts. He's viewed by people in these countries as a conduit to Trump, and doesn't seem to involve real consulting work, rather just show up, maybe make a speech and collect a check..