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Trump To Rudy: You're Fired

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It was a great love affair, but now it has come to an end.

“Mayor Giuliani is not currently representing President Trump in any legal matters,” the former president’s spokesman Jason Miller told reporters last night. This morning he elaborated on the conscious uncoupling, tweeting “Simply that there are no pending cases where Mayor Giuliani is representing the President. The Mayor remains an ally and a friend.”

It’s not so surprising, really. Trump has been seeing other lawyers and not even bothering to hide it. Younger lawyers who don’t tweet incriminating details about plots to frame antifa for the Capitol riot. Or leave embarrassing buttdial messages for reporters. Lawyers who know how to keep their root touch-up in place for an entire press conference.

Plus there were rumors of trouble in paradise and unpaid legal bills after Rudy failed to stop Joe Biden getting sworn in.

But who will get custody of OAN?

Here’s hoping Trump and Rudy can at least keep it civil for the sake of the children. And by “children,” we mean all the legal proceedings that are likely to come out of their joint attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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Just yesterday, Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, head of the Homeland Security Committee, teamed up with the NAACP to sue Trump and Giuliani for conspiring with radical domestic terrorists to intimidate and harass the congressman as he attempted to carry out his official duties. (Good luck with Judge Amit Mehta!)

Dominion and Smartmatic have both sued Giuliani for false claims he made about their voting machines in his representation of Trump.

And Trump and Giuliani both addressed the mob on January 6 in the moments before they stormed the Capitol, with Trump exhorting them to “fight like hell” and Rudy clamoring for “trial by combat.” So if news reports are correct that D.C.’s Attorney General Karl Racine is weighing charging the former president under laws against incitement, then Rudy might well be in the frame, too.

“We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said after voting to acquit Trump. “And former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.” This also applies to former presidents’ lawyers.

But severing ties to Trumpland will have other, more immediate repercussions for Giuliani, who is currently facing an ethics complaint seeking to disbar him in New York. With Bill Barr out at the DOJ, Giuliani probably won’t be able to waltz in there with his clients and demand an audience. Particularly since he’s under investigation by the U.S. Attorney in New York — an investigation which was stymied by Barr and his replacement Jeffrey Rosen, but which is likely to become un-stuck in short order.

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If Rudy can’t flog his services to Turks, or Qataris, or Romanians, or Venezuelans, or Ukrainians seeking an in with the White House, he’s going to have a hard time meeting that $230,000 monthly nut for his six homes and 11 country club memberships. And that’s without factoring in the alimony!

Yes, it’s a very sad day. Ah well, we’ll always have Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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