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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiuliani's Legal Bills Are Growing. His Allies Want Trump to Pay Them.
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Richard Signorelli
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This could get very interesting. Cheapskate Trump being shaken down to silence a potential cooperator?
Giulianis Allies Want Trump to Pay His Legal Bills
Bernard Kerik, far left, the former New York City police commissioner, is said to be among those who are pushing for the Trump campaign to pay Rudolph W. Giuliani, center.
Giulianis Legal Bills Are Growing. His Allies Want Trump to Pay Them.
As Rudolph Giuliani faces an escalating federal investigation and defamation suits, his advisers believe he should benefit from a $250 million Trump campaign war chest.
nytimes.com
12:24 PM · May 4, 2021
Richard Signorelli
@richsignorelli
This could get very interesting. Cheapskate Trump being shaken down to silence a potential cooperator?
Giulianis Allies Want Trump to Pay His Legal Bills
Bernard Kerik, far left, the former New York City police commissioner, is said to be among those who are pushing for the Trump campaign to pay Rudolph W. Giuliani, center.
Giulianis Legal Bills Are Growing. His Allies Want Trump to Pay Them.
As Rudolph Giuliani faces an escalating federal investigation and defamation suits, his advisers believe he should benefit from a $250 million Trump campaign war chest.
nytimes.com
12:24 PM · May 4, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-warrant-trump.html
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have been examining communications between Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Trumps former personal lawyer, and Ukrainian officials as he tried to unearth damaging information about President Biden before the election. The prosecutors are investigating whether Mr. Giuliani lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials who were helping him, a potential violation of federal law.
Mr. Giuliani, who has not been charged, has denied any wrongdoing and denounced the searches as corrupt. The actions in Ukraine were part of Mr. Trumps first impeachment trial.
Separately, Mr. Giuliani is being sued for defamation by two voting machine companies, Dominion and Smartmatic, for his false claims that the companies were involved in a conspiracy to flip votes to Mr. Biden.
Mr. Giuliani led the effort to subvert the results of the 2020 race in a series of battleground states, but he was not paid for the work, according to people close to both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump. His supporters now want the Trump campaign to tap into the $250 million it raised in the weeks after the election to pay Mr. Giuliani and absorb costs he has incurred in the defamation suits.
I want to know what the GOP did with the quarter of $1 billion that they collected for the election legal fight, Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Mr. Giuliani appointed Mr. Kerik when he was mayor of New York.
Using expletives, Mr. Kerik added that lawyers and law firms that didnt do much work were paid handsomely, while those who worked hard got nothing.
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Giuliani's Legal Bills Are Growing. His Allies Want Trump to Pay Them. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
May 2021
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Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)1. Trump doesn't pay his own bills
so it is rather unlikely that he'll pay Rudy's.
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)9. Beat me to it
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)2. Good luck with that.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)3. Crooked Kerik wants to know where the Billion dollars went.
Oh, that's rich.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)5. You got THAT right!!!!!
All the crooked people wanna' know why THEY didn't get their share of the loot!
Geez - in this band of thieves you just don't know who to trust!
Hekate
(90,793 posts)6. That gave me a good laugh
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,818 posts)7. 😂🤣😂
doc03
(35,364 posts)8. Everything Trump touches dies. Rudy went from
one of the most respected politicians to a punch
line in a joke.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)10. Bernie Kerik is carrying Giuliani's water?
Whoo boy, this just gets more and more surreal by the day. They really expect the former guy to pay them or cover their legal fees? Is this their first day? But what's Giuliani worried about, anyway? I mean, if he's done nothing wrong.