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'His judgment is poor': Legal expert predicts rough road for Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani is in for a rough road ahead as he seeks to defend from a Georgia criminal probe stemming from the 2020 election, a legal expert said Friday.

Former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen appeared on CNN's Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, where he was asked how Giuliani is likely to navigate the legal troubles. Like his other legal problems, Eisen says, he expects the ex-Trump attorney to handle these particular issues "with difficulty."

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Not 'on the top of Trump’s list': Jenna Ellis' plea for lawyer money brutally shot down

In a deep dive into the struggles Donald Trump's Georgia co-conspirators are facing as they fend off their respective Georgia RICO indictments, CNN is reporting that former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis should expect no help from her famous boss when it comes to paying her legal bills.

As Axios reported earlier in the week, Cornell Law School adjunct professor Randy Zelin claimed the Georgia legal bills for anyone not named Donald Trump could end up somewhere in the $250,000-$500,000 range.

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FBI whistleblower suspected Giuliani was a Russian 'dupe' – but DOJ stifled probe: report

An FBI whistleblower came forward with his suspicions that Rudy Giuliani “may have been compromised” by Russian intelligence while working as Donald Trump's campaign lawyer and adviser, but he claims the bureau stifled his concerns.

FBI agent Jonathan Buma sent a 22-page letter in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that the former New York City mayor had been used as an asset by a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Kremlin intelligence and other Russian operatives to spread disinformation in an effort to discredit Joe Biden, reported Mother Jones.

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'Lawyers are trying to blame him': Trump and attorneys reportedly pointing fingers

Donald Trump has a good chance of separating his case from the other defendants in Georgia, and that goes hand in hand with his strategy, a former prosecutor said Thursday.

"Those lawyers, crooked lawyers that have been charged, know that Trump is going to be pointing the finger at them in a joint trial," former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said on MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle.

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Rudy Giuliani plans to plead not guilty in Georgia case and waive arraignment: report

Former President Donald Trump's legal associate Rudy Giuliani plans to enter a not guilty plea in the Georgia election racketeering case — and waive his arraignment, according to CBS News.

"Trump and several other defendants have already filed waivers and entered not guilty pleas. 'I can confirm that it is his intention to waive,' said Giuliani's spokesperson and political advisor Ted Goodman," reported Graham Kates. "Giuliani faces 13 charges related to the racketeering case, in which 19 people are accused of acting as a 'criminal enterprise' in their efforts to overturn Georgia's vote after President Joe Biden won."

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Trump's Save America PAC is 'almost broke' as he blows millions on legal fees: report

Former President Donald Trump's Save America PAC is critically low on funds — at the exact moment it stares down the prospect of paying millions more for legal fees for associates of the former president in the Georgia election racketeering case, reported USA Today Thursday.

The PAC "has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised and is sitting on less than $4 million" — and Trump "has already dug into his fund for 2024 ads and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia," as some of his co-defendants beg for donations and claim he is not helping them as they assumed he would.

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'Wouldn't give him a nickel': Rudy Giuliani's old sugar daddies bail on him in time of need

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has fallen on hard times.

Not only has he been indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for his alleged efforts to keep former President Donald Trump unlawfully in power, but this week he also lost the defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whom he falsely accused of stealing votes during the 2020 election.

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How James Comer went from popular bipartisan to conspiracy-spinning Hunter Biden foe: report

In an NBC News profile, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) was described as a man who once embraced bipartisanship, only to turn into one of the most ferocious right-wing attackers of the opposing party.

An anecdote highlighted in the profile recalled Comer calling aformer statehouse colleague, Democrat Derrick Graham, to serve on his transition team when he took over the state's Agriculture Department in 2011.

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'Not subtle': CNN panel shreds Rudy Giuliani's racist attacks on defamed Georgia election workers

Former President Donald Trump's close ally Rudy Giuliani's attacks on Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were not just defamatory, argued a CNN panel on Thursday — they were deeply racist, as Giuliani used completely unprompted language comparing the pair of Black women to drug dealers while claiming they were stuffing ballots.

This comes as a federal judge determined this week that Giuliani lost the defamation suit brought by Freeman and Moss by default, after failing to provide information sought by subpoenas in the case, which puts him on the hook for damages as well as attorneys' fees for the plaintiffs.

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Rudy Giuliani's 'life is falling apart' as Trump-related legal woes pile up: NBC reporter

Rudy Giuliani lost his defamation case filed by two Georgia election workers, adding to a growing pile of legal problems.

A federal judge sanctioned the former New York City mayor for failing to turn over evidence to the women's attorneys for discovery and ordered him to pay their legal fees in a scathing judgment, and NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what provoked her anger.

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Trump's allies are 'splintering' as they seek to 'save their own skin': analyst

Former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case appear to be "splintering" off into their own legal strategies as they hire different counsel and develop their own plans to try to beat the charges, said New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush on MSNBC Wednesday.

Alongside Trump, eighteen other people were indicted in the scheme, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, and a number of Georgia Republican officials including former state party chair David Shafer. Various defendants have either requested expedited trials or motioned for their trials to be removed to other jurisdictions.

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Trump could have saved allies after 2020 shenanigans — and 'no one' knows why he didn't

Prior to leaving office, Donald Trump's allies were asking for pardons for things they did on or around the 2020 election, but he never jumped in to help before leaving office on Jan. 20, 2021.

Now that lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and other campaign aides and White House advisers are facing legal jeopardy, the question is coming up again. In fact, a number of Republican lawmakers asked for preemptive pardons, and it has never been explained why.

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Giuliani's defamation damages will be ‘financially ruinous’: legal expert

A legal expert on Wednesday said former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani faces a “financially ruinous” hit after a federal judge found the former New York City mayor liable in a defamation lawsuit filed by two election workers who claimed he falsely accused them of fraud.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Wednesday’s ruling ordered Giuliani to pay $89,172.50 in attorney fees to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' ArShaye ("Shaye") Moss by Sept. 20.

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