Things have been moving rather quickly the last day or so, so I’m not surprised that no one I’ve heard in the media has pointed out the obvious about the new guy on Team Trump:
Rudy Giuliani is now a subject in at least two criminal investigations.
Because all of us Junior Lawyers have already parsed the difference between Subjects and Targets, I needn’t belabor the point that Mr. Giuliani is not, necessarily, culpable in any criminal case.
But I will gladly this night bet one hundred American dollars, cash, that he will be subpoenaed by either Robert Mueller’s office or the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York or both, because he has indicated he has information valuable to both of those offices in ongoing investigations.
Speaking last night and this morning on the FOX News network, Giuliani asserted both a detailed knowledge of Donald Trump’s motivations in firing FBI Director Comey (“He wouldn’t say the president wasn’t under investigation”) and detailed knowledge of the methods by which Stormy Daniels was paid to keep her from revealing a story that might damage Trump in the final weeks of the presidential campaign (“Can you imagine if this had come out in October?”).
Whether his words were born in booze, bravado or a skull too thick to process liability at speed, Giuliani guaranteed himself at seat at the tables of power, though not the ones on the seventh floor of 21st and Virginia Avenues, where he once dreamed of sitting.
Mr. Mayor, I sure hope the years of disaster celebrity and TV hate preaching haven’t dimmed your knowledge of how to act around professional prosecutors, because you’re going to need to work those chops again really soon.
Subjectively speaking.