The Jig Is Up For Rudy Giuliani, Feds Raid His Apartment, Seize His Phones

Rudy Giuliani won’t be butt dialing anybody for a while, because the FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday and  grabbed his phone, in conjunction with an investigation into whether Giuliani “illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who at the same time were helping Mr. Giuliani search for dirt on Mr. Trump’s political rivals, including President Biden,” per the New York Times:

The United States Attorney’s office in Manhattan and the F.B.I. had for months sought to secure a search warrant for Mr. Giuliani’s phones.

Under Mr. Trump, senior political appointees in the Justice Department repeatedly sought to block such a warrant, The New York Times reported, slowing the investigation as it was gaining momentum last year. After Merrick B. Garland was confirmed as President Biden’s attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.

While the warrant is not an explicit accusation of wrongdoing against Mr. Giuliani, it shows that the investigation has entered an aggressive new phase. To obtain a search warrant, investigators need to persuade a judge they have sufficient reason to believe that a crime was committed and that the search would turn up evidence of the crime.

Rudy’s up the creek. Bill Barr’s not around to protect him and Trump didn’t pardon him and can’t do so now. He might be in more hot water now than Matt Gaetz — whose phone was also seized by the feds — and that’s saying quite a lot.