No Honor Among Thieves

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump have more than just a lawyer-client relationship.  The two old New Yorkers have run in the same circles for years and are friends of longstanding.  And while some question Rudy's legal abilities and even his mental acuity, Trump has seen fit to entrust the aging former Mayor of New York City with his legal maneuverings as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election with a variety of legal challenges.

Rudy was Trump's guy, and he dutifully charged at every windmill as both old men did their damnedest to change the results of a free and fair election.  But none of those windmills fell.   

On January 6th everything came apart.  Congress was meeting to certify the electoral votes and officially declare Joe Biden the winner, but Trump, who believed that his Vice President could derail that process and invalidate the election, had encouraged people to show up in Washington, DC, for the purpose of intimidating the Congress.  That morning Trump went out on the Ellipse and addressed a large group of tattooed hillbillies and other Trump supporters, many of them armed, and encouraged the maladjusted miscreants to march on Congress.  Rudy was there too, and he spoke to the crowd of a "trial by combat."  Then both of the old men tottered back into the White House to watch the revolution on television.

The crowd went to the Capitol, forced their way in, and spent the morning creating havoc.  Five died as a result of the invasion, many more were injured, and damage to property was extensive - and before another week had passed Donald Trump had been impeached for a second time, this time for inciting a riot.  Congress was not happy, the country was not happy, and Trump, who never takes responsibility for anything, began casting about looking for people to blame.

And Donald Trump, who has a long and well known history of being a deadbeat, and in particular of stiffing his attorneys, turned on Rudy.  Trump informed his closest aides to quit paying Rudy, and he also instructed them to begin going over Rudy' travel expenses with a fine-tooth comb.

Rudy, whose legal expertise had produced nothing of apparent value in Trump's struggle to remain in office, had been billing the Trump campaign $20,000 per day, plus expenses, for his services.  He was over -charging, but it made no difference because Trump wasn't planning on paying anyway.

In the end Trump got what he paid for - nothing, and Rudy was compensated with an amount relative to the value of his services - again, nothing.  

And this coming Wednesday the government of the United States of America will be blessedly rid of the both of them!