{"id":12612,"date":"2023-11-06T20:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2023-11-06T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:08:23","slug":"trump-going-down-rudy-tells-trump-hell-go-down-with-the-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/trump-going-down-rudy-tells-trump-hell-go-down-with-the-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Going Down: Rudy Tells Trump He\u2019ll Go Down With the Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rudy Giuliani<\/a> is bleeding cash, losing attorneys, racking up lawsuits against him, facing criminal charges, and alienating longtime friends and Republican Party stalwarts. And yet, as his life comes apart around him, Giuliani is still promising to go down with the Donald Trump<\/a>-sized ship, sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former top Trump lawyer bragged to associates in recent months that he\u2019d never \u201cbreak\u201d or betray Trump, even as his own legal problem exploded and indictments were handed down, two sources with knowledge of these comments tell Rolling Stone<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pledge highlights both Giualini\u2019s declared loyalty in the face of extreme legal jeopardy and the former president\u2019s growing isolation among the circle of advisers who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election<\/a>. As the Trump legal team games out which of his co-defendants are most likely to cooperate<\/a> with prosecutors, Giuliani appears to be one of the few alleged co-conspirators whose loyalty is viewed as uniquely reliable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump himself appears to have confidence in his former attorney\u2019s loyalty. Since he\u2019s left office, Trump has occasionally joked to confidantes that Giuliani is so loyal, federal authorities could put his former attorney in \u201csolitary\u201d confinement, and he still wouldn\u2019t say anything negative about Trump, according to two people who\u2019ve spoken with the former president. Maybe that\u2019s why, despite the former Trump campaign lawyer\u2019s unique solidarity, Trump still isn\u2019t doing much to help alleviate his mounting legal bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Giuliani did not respond to questions from Rolling Stone<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trumpland has been surprised before. Prosecutors shocked the former president and his legal team by securing a plea deal with Sidney Powell, whose loyalty at least one Trump associate believed<\/a> was \u201cnever supposed to be breakable.\u201d Throughout his administration and post-presidency, the former president has seen a number of otherwise die-hard MAGA allies nonetheless end up cooperating in investigations of him, including former national security adviser Mike Flynn and Trump\u2019s erstwhile fixer Michael Cohen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all the bravado of his loyalty pledge, it appears that Giuliani doesn\u2019t have many good options for the moment even if he was open to cooperating with prosecutors against Trump. District Attorney Fani Willis<\/a> has offered lenient plea deals with lighter sentences of probation and fines to a number of Giuliani\u2019s co-defendants. But there are no such sweetheart plea deals in sight for the former New York City mayor, according to two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giuliani\u2019s more recent promises to MAGA fellow travelers follow a similar 2021 pledge he made to his former client in which he said he would never turn on Trump, unlike other \u201cweak\u201d souls, according to a person familiar with their post-presidential interactions. But since 2021, Giulaini\u2019s legal problems have only multiplied, a development that assures his oath of undying fealty to Trump is about to be put to its greatest test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to an indictment in Georgia, special prosecutor Jack Smith listed him as a \u201cco-conspirator<\/a>\u201d in the indictment of Trump on election-related charges. He also faces a host of civil suits against him, including defamation suits by Dominion Voting Systems<\/a>, Smartmatic, and election workers<\/a> over his bogus election fraud claims, a sexual harassment suit by a former employee, a suit from Hunter Biden alleging the former mayor illegally hacked his laptop, and a suit by his former attorney Robert Costello<\/a> over allegedly unpaid legal bills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, who often views loyalty as a one-way street, has privately told associates that he expects his fellow election-denying loyalists and possible witnesses for the prosecution to be willing to go to jail, rather than flip<\/a>. Despite Giulaini\u2019s growing legal bills, the former president has shown only a limited willingness to help with his former attorney\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to Giuliani\u2019s recent legal troubles is the plea deal struck by Jenna Ellis<\/a>, a former Trump campaign attorney who worked closely with him in late 2020 to try and overturn the election. In an interview with The Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/em>, Ellis\u2019s attorney Frank Hogue<\/a> said \u201cI think [Giuliani] should be\u201d worried about the case against him. Ellis, he said, \u201cwouldn\u2019t be a help\u201d if called to testify but, according to Hogue, \u201chis troubles extend far beyond her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rudy Giuliani is bleeding cash, losing attorneys, racking up lawsuits against him, facing criminal charges, and alienating longtime friends and Republican Party stalwarts. And yet, as his life comes apart around him, Giuliani is still promising to go down with the Donald Trump-sized ship, sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. The former top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/rudy-going-down-with-the-ship.webp?fit=1581%2C1054&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12616,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions\/12616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}