The fickle finger of fate seems to be flipping off Rudy Giuliani these days. The Former Guy isn’t paying for limos anymore and don’t ask about the $20K per day legal fees that Trump was allegedly willing to pay back in the days when Strikeforce Rudy was smoking Kraken with Sidney Powell and the Tar Baby Within was oozing out of Rudy’s pores. Giuliani never saw any of that money and if you believe Michael Cohen — and we do — he will never see a penny. It was just hot air.
So where does that leave America’s mayor today? Well, we’ll tell you. He’s cutting back his large entourage, in addition to the limos, so that he can squirrel away a buck or two for legal fees. He just hired Harvey Weinstein’s “killers” and they don’t come cheap — and they’re not killers, either, if we can judge their efficacy by what they did for Weinstein, he could do 20 years. But they already have a reputation for high profile lost causes, so what’s one more?
[Arthur] Aidala and [Barry] Kamins now appear to be working on behalf of Giuliani, who is the subject of a federal probe into the former New York City mayor’s dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs while working for former President Trump.
Forbes, which first reported the latest additions to Giuliani’s defense team, noted that Aidala frequently spoke to the media on behalf of Weinstein while defending him and after the 2020 verdict told NPR, “Nobody on [Weinstein’s] defense team is happy that Harvey Weinstein is not sleeping in his own bed.”
Sounds like a heartbroken lot of chaps, don’t you think? And we’re sure they’re not going to be happy when Rudy can’t hit the cigar bars and blow a lot of expensive smoke. Rudy loves to spend money.
The Washington Post reported that Mr Giuliani was paying his ex-wife Judith $42,000 a month, or more than half a million a year. According to the paper, Mr Giuliani was making between $7m and $9m a year in 2016 and 2017.
On top of Mr Giuliani’s ongoing alimony payments, he’s also facing a $1.3bn defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for pushing conspiracy theories alleging the company engaged in massive voter fraud to help Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.
Not all of Mr Giuliani’s financial struggles are rooted in legal problems; he is also a lavish spender.
The former mayor has a preference for expensive living, frequently staying at places like the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, where rooms can cost in the high hundreds of dollars per night and visiting lounges like New York’s members-only cigar bar, the Grand Havana Room.
A lawyer representing one of Mr Giuliani’s ex-wives claimed he spent tens of thousands of dollars for private jet services, $40,000 for a friend’s son to get dental work, $7,000 on fountain pens, and $12,000 on cigars.
And now he can’t afford his own cab. We would suggest that Rudy sell his organs to raise a little coin, but how much are the organs of a 76-year-old alcoholic likely to be worth?
And here’s the moral of the story: Giuliani would have done okay, quite well in fact, if he had remained America’s Mayor and that was how history remembered him. He never should have rallied under the banner of Donald Trump and he never, ever, in a million years should have tried to sell the Big Lie. That was his doom. Rallying around the Trump flag has been the end for a number of people that we know about, and it will be that way for even more, as the 29 lawsuits pending against Trump are adjudicated.
Rudy Giuliani made his bed. He can sleep in it — next to Harvey Weinstein. And if their lawyers are sad because they’re not sleeping in their own beds: au contraire. They absolutely are. These are the beds they made. They are exactly where they put themselves.
I took a long look at that picture. Rudy is trying to look dapper with that red hankie in the chest pocket but the suit itself is ill fitting. I focused on his shoes which to be fair are still properly shined. It’s not much, but it’s a sign that there still a little something there with the guy. It might seems a small thing but unshined shoes are a sign of having given up all fucks. Here’s the fun part though. Looking at Rudy’s shoes caused me to notice the clunky heels worn by his ride companion. So I looked a little closer and realized she was wearing boots. Up over the knee thigh boots. As in “stripper boots!” (I don’t know if it’s true but I saw in an episode of Six Feet Under they wear them to make it easier to do tricks on the pole. The boots make it easier for their legs to grip the pole just the right amount. Makes sense) Kind of makes me wonder what ole Rudy was up to, or about to be up to. Especially if he’s having money troubles.
Rudy can thank his lucky stars that his buddy & Barr aren’t in charge of the penal system, otherwise he would disappear like the guards & video when Jeffrey E. was silenced.