- Rudy Giuliani is no longer “currently” representing former President Trump on legal issues, according to CNN.
- A Trump adviser said Giuliani’s separation was only because there are no “pending cases” in which he is involved.
- Trump faces a series of criminal and civil lawsuits targeting his campaign, administration and business.
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Former President Donald Trump reportedly severed ties with his personal lawyer and ally, Rudy Giuliani, according to CNN.
Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller told the newspaper on Tuesday that the former New York mayor “is not currently representing President Trump on any legal issues.”
Miller later explained in a tweet that Giuliani is not representing the former president “simply because there are no pending cases” in which he is involved. “The mayor remains an ally and friend,” tweeted Miller.
After Trump was impeached a second time last month, he would have been angry at his allies, who he felt should have done more to defend him. He would have been especially upset with Giuliani and instructed his advisers not to pay the attorney’s attorney’s fees.
Insider said Trump was “offended” by some of Giuliani’s actions, including asking for $ 20,000 a day for his work in fighting election results. Although Giuliani vehemently denied that he asked for the sum, he eventually acknowledged that one of his associates had asked campaign officials for a fee of $ 20,000 a day to help Trump after his electoral defeat.
Giuliani did not represent Trump in his impeachment trial because the lawyer was a “witness” in the case and gave a speech at the pro-Trump rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, in which he told the crowd that it was time for “trial by combat.”
For months, Giuliani encouraged unfounded conspiracy theories that challenged the integrity of the 2020 election in the U.S. He also participated in several missed processes that attempted to overturn the election results.
Trump lost presidential immunity when he stepped down in January, and a “tsunami” of civil and criminal issues aimed at his administration, campaign committee, commercial interests and his own words awaits him, now without the presidential protective powers.
Although the Senate acquitted Trump for his role in the Capitol riots, federal prosecutors have not ruled out the former president’s investigation for inciting the attack that left five dead, according to Insider Dave Levinthal.
“He is concerned about this,” an aide told CNN.
The former president also faces possible legal repercussions for his January phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump pressured the official to “find” additional votes in an attempt to overturn the state’s election results. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, said earlier this month that they were starting a criminal investigation into Trump’s actions.
Giuliani remained one of Trump’s most loyal supporters throughout his presidency, although his close relationship with the president has resulted in several legal problems of his own.
On Monday, a newly elected district attorney in Georgia said he was investigating possible extortion charges against Giuliani for his repeated false allegations of electoral fraud.
Then, on Tuesday, MP Bennie Thompson of Mississippi filed a lawsuit against Giuliani, Trump and two extremist groups in connection with the Capitol insurrection.
Giuliani also faces a defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems and another from Smartmatic, after promoting unfounded conspiracy theories that voting technology companies were responsible for electoral fraud.