WASHINGTON – When Rudolph W. Giuliani treated his efforts to fulfill President Trump’s wishes to realize the results of the 2020 presidential election as a payment opportunity, he proposed a $ 20,000 daily allowance for his legal services from the emerging legal fund of the Trump campaign – the president rejected it and responded to it by demanding to approve each issue in person.
Nine weeks and another indictment later, Mr. Trump began the day Thursday by asking their assistants to erase any sign of a rift. Stripped of his Twitter account, Mr. Trump conveyed his praise through an adviser, Jason Miller, who tweeted: “Just spoke to President Trump, and he told me that @RudyGiuliani is a wonderful guy and a Patriot who has dedicated his services to the country! We all love America’s mayor! ”
White House officials are universally angry with Mr. Giuliani and blamed him for both the accusations of Mr. Trump. But the president is a different story.
Even though he complains about the latest efforts of mr. Giuliani as fruitless, the president remains extraordinary to him in public and private. “Do not underestimate him,” said Mr. Trump told advisers.
But only up to a point. While Mr. Trump and his advisers deterred the $ 20,000 request weeks ago, it is unclear whether the president will sign off on Mr. Giuliani is paid something other than expenses.
The back-and-forth tension is a feature of a decades-long, mutually beneficial relationship between the former mayor of New York from Brooklyn and the former real estate developer of Queens. Although the two were never particularly close in New York, Mr. Trump enjoys having the former mayor as his personal legal pit bull during the special advisory inquiry into his campaign’s ties with Russia.
In return, Mr. Giuliani, who failed in his own bid for the presidency in 2008, visits the president in the Oval Office and uses his new commitments to pursue lucrative contracts.
Mr. Trump called Mr. Giuliani embarked on politically destructive missions that led to his accusation – twice. Now, isolated and deprived of his usual political megaphones, the president is facing the devastation of his affairs and political affairs because he encouraged a pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th.
Mr. Giuliani – who in turn encouraged a group of supporters of the president that day to conduct a “fight trial” – is one of the few people still willing to join Trump in the foxhole. While most attorneys are reluctant to represent the president in a second Senate trial, Trump advisers have said that Mr. Giuliani is most likely to be involved. Despite the election of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the winner, Mr. Giuliani continued to drive unproven theories about the election results and falsely attributed the violence to anarchists on the left.
A podcast hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, mr. Trump’s former chief strategist was removed Thursday for an interview in which Giuliani reiterated false allegations about the election. During the interview, Mr. Bannon mnr. Giuliani begged to move on to a new topic.
“I do not care to put off my madness,” said Mr. Bannon told Giuliani according to Alexander Panetta, a CBC News reporter who listened to the podcast before it was removed. “I’m not going to be locked up for you.”
Mr. Trump has always had an abundance of yes men and women around him, but Mr. Giuliani occupies a unique space in his orbit. Few people had such endurance with the president, and few people were so willing to say and do things for him that others would not.
“Your typical role as a legal advisor is to tell your client the hard truth and walk away from risks,” Matthew Sanderson, a Republican political lawyer in Washington, said in an interview. “Rudy seems to be telling his client exactly what he wants to hear and running him in the direction of a risk as if they were both moths on fire.”
That trip made him look worse. Days after the election, Mr. Giuliani took the road and challenged the result in a much-maligned news conference in front of a gardening business in Pennsylvania. In another appearance that month, Mr. Giuliani on camera with black liquid, apparently hair dye, streaming over his face as he boasted about the outcome of the election.
Few were so willing to defend the president, and paradoxically, few people so damaged his legacy.
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- How does the accusation process work? Members of the House are considering indicting the president – the equivalent of an indictment in a criminal case – and Senate members are considering removing him while holding a trial in which senators act as juries. The test, as determined by the Constitution, is whether the president has committed ‘treason, bribery or other major crimes and offenses’. The vote in the House requires that only a simple majority of legislators agree that the president has indeed committed major crimes and offenses; the Senate must have a two-thirds majority.
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- Can the Senate hold a trial after Biden became president? The Senate may hold a trial for Mr. Trump even after leaving office, although there is no precedent for that. Democrats in charge of the House can choose when to send their indictment to the Senate, after which the chamber must move immediately to begin the trial. But even if the House were to immediately transfer the charge to the other side of the Capitol, an agreement between Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate would be needed to take it up before Jan. 19, a day before Mr. Praying is inaugurated. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said Wednesday that he would not agree to such an agreement. Given the timetable, the trial will probably only start after Mr. Biden is president.
Mr Giuliani will step in on the president’s legal case in April 2018. His eagerness to attack Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, impressed Trump, who was constantly changing his legal team. Most Trump advisers have praised the efforts of Mr. Giuliani with mr. Mueller seen as a success.
“There was never a moment that Rudy was not willing to go down, and that’s what Trump requires,” Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio said. “He proved that delivery was not as important to Donald as continuing to try.”
In addition to his work with mr. Trump, Mr. Giuliani pursued side projects with the additional closet to be the president’s personal advocate. Mr. Giuliani is free from ethical laws that restrict government officials, and has pursued lucrative deals amid the special advisory inquiry.
And then came the accusations. When writing the history of the Trump presidency, Mr. Giuliani to be a central figure, first by waging a pressure campaign against the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden’s relatives, and then by traveling the country in efforts to oust Mr. Biden’s victory.
Mr. Giuliani’s own legal problems have plagued the president. While Mr. Giuliani pursued separate business opportunities in Ukraine, warned intelligence agencies that he could be used by Russian intelligence officials to spread disinformation about the election – reports that Mr. The work of mr. Giuliani in Ukraine continues to be of interest in an ongoing investigation by federal prosecutors in New York. And his remarks to Trump supporters before the riot in the Capitol are now the subject of an attempt by the New York State Bar Association to oust him.
Mr. Giuliani looks untouched.
In a 37-minute video released Wednesday night, Mr. Giuliani is trying to rewrite the history of the Capitol riot. Although Mr. Trump has urged his supporters to march to the building and ‘show strength’, Mr. Giuliani suggested in the video that antifa activists were involved, a theory that has repeatedly spread in pro-Trump circles.
“The protest is ultimately being used to some extent as a fulcrum to create something else that the president had nothing to do with,” Giuliani said.
Now his calls to the president are sometimes blocked at the behest of White House officials. Advisors say Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Mr. Giuliani is partly responsible for the mess the White House is currently working on.
But Mr. Giuliani hangs in the shrinking circle around Mr. Trump.
“He’s not alone,” Alan Marcus, a former Trump Organization consultant, said of the president. “He is abandoned. Rudy is just the last in a whole group of people. ‘