After a great deal of trying, Donald Trump now has a new lawyer. If you're wondering who would be dumb enough to join the Trump legal team at this late and precarious date, wonder no more: It's Rudy Giuliani.
“I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller,” Giuliani said in an interview.
Well, you can't say the two don't deserve each other!
Giuliani has his own rich history with Team Trump, having been a prominent pro-Trump voice on the campaign trail who on multiple October occasions curiously hinted that he had been given advance notice of the FBI's upcoming moves in the Clinton investigation. More recently he served as, no we're not kidding, Trump's "cybersecurity adviser,” forming a cyber-task force to combat cyber-hacking that, as it turned out, did cyber-bupkis before quietly drifting into the ether.
Giuliani, who joins a legal team that has struggled to recruit new members to its ranks, said he has been speaking with Trump for weeks about joining the group of legal advisers. He said he would work alongside Trump’s current attorneys, Jay Sekulow and Ty Cobb, who focus on the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He also said he will soon take a leave from his law firm, Greenberg Traurig.
Giuliani is expected to pick up the slack for Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who recently had evidence seized from his home and office in a criminal investigation related to efforts to silence two women who have credibly claimed affairs with Trump, and who is reportedly being widely considered a potential snitch among Trump’s remaining friends.
As an aside, Rudy Giuliani prominently features in the just-released James Comey book; Comey describes him as an obsessive publicity hound, a creature of confidence and ego who could never tolerate anyone but himself being in the spotlight.
So he fits right in on Team Trump. And if Rudy Giuliani ends up being the next Trump lawyer to have his office raided by the FBI in a tangential investigation probing how the hell any of these people make their money, nobody can genuinely say they'd be all that surprised.