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Stiffed, Subpoenaed, And Disqualified. It's All In A Week's Work For Rudy Giuliani.

Coulda stayed quiet and stayed America's Mayor.

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Rudy Giuliani is having a week.

While you were grilling hamburgers and dosing your dog with CBD in preparation for the fireworks, Ol’ Rudy was busy celebrating America, too … in his own, peculiar way.

Just last week, Giuliani’s license to practice law was suspended in New York for telling a pile of whoppers about the election, both in and out of court.

He’s currently facing an investigation of his Ukrainian lobbying AHEM “not lobbying” in the Southern District of New York, and a special master is currently sifting through the contents of his office after the FBI raided it.

At the same time, he’s being sued for defamation by both Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic for his false claims about the election. And as Bloomberg reported this morning, Dominion has just subpoenaed him for all documents pertaining to his appearances on Fox since 2016 — as if Rudy spent hours assembling data in preparation to hop on with Lou Dobbs or Maria Bartiromo and shout inanities.

Then, over the weekend, the Arizona Republic dumped audio recordings of messages the president’s lawyer left for election officials in the state in the days after the election that certainly seemed to suggest he’d welcome their help in perverting the outcome of the state’s official tally.

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“I have a few things I’d like to talk over with you. Maybe we can get this thing fixed up,” he said to election supervisor Bill Gates after the Republican official let the call go to voicemail on December 24. “You know, I really think it’s a shame that Republicans sort of are both in this kind of situation. And I think there may be a nice way to resolve this for everybody.”

“I’d like to see if there’s a way that we can resolve this so that it comes out well for everyone. We’re all Republicans, I think we have the same goal,” he said the same day to election supervisor Jack Sellers. “Let’s see if we can get this done outside of the court, gosh.”

In fact, the state was already in multiple courts, which was perhaps why neither official returned his call.

Then this morning another excerpt from Michael Wolff’s upcoming book Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency (affiliate link) dropped in The Times of London with the juicy gossip that Rudy is on the outs with the Trump family and has been “cast out, cut off” from his former patron.

And Trump didn’t even bother to pay Rudy for his services before booting him off the island.

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“Trump is annoyed that he tried to get paid for his election challenge work,” Wolff writes, describing the “cold shoulder” the loyal, if questionably effective, attorney got when he tried to press his case.

So much for that $20,000 daily fee Rudy sent his girlfriend to demand from the Trump campaign.

All of which could not come at a worse time. Unable to practice law, he can no longer hoover up cash from overseas oligarchs with the clever gambit of inserting a “just lawyerin’, no lobbyin’, no how” clause in his contracts. He’s in the middle of a slash-and-burn divorce from his third wife, Judi Nathan. And between the civil and criminal cases, Giuliani’s looking at millions of dollars in legal fees.

Luckily, he’s got his loyal fans to fall back on. They’ll never let America’s Mayor down, right?

Or maybe not. Well …. good luck to him!

‘We need you to stop the counting’: Records detail intense efforts by Trump allies to pressure Maricopa County supervisors [AZ Republic]

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

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