How strong is Rudy Giuliani’s loyalty to Donald Trump?


Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, remains in the white hot spotlight of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots. His future is a real question mark.

Many are now wondering, is it in the end Giuliani who will turn on Trump and potentially be Trump’s undoing reputationally?

At one time, Rudy Giuliani was an American hero. In the aftermath of 9/11, as New York City’s mayor, he provided what the Big Apple needed to recover from the horror of the terrorist attacks. He was known as a centrist, moderate Republican. Even Democrats admired him, and he had a high approval rating, which is a pretty big deal for any NYC mayor.

Boy, how things have changed. We’ve seen his home raided, his office raided, his law license suspended, and his name on a subpoena.

 His lawyer – remember, MAGA really stands for making attorneys get attorneys – Rudy’s lawyer has been negotiating the scope of the subpoena and whether he may be able to comply with some of those requests. His appearance has for now been rescheduled. And we don’t yet have a new date, but this is a guy who almost certainly knows where the bodies are buried.

And the question now becomes: Is he going to prioritize self-preservation above all else? 

Giuliani’s former client is someone who knows a bit about self-preservation. Donald Trump places a premium on other people’s loyalty to him, but he doesn’t guarantee it in return, especially when his own fortune and fame are on the line.

People who were loyal to Trump up until, and even beyond the end, I mean, when Rudy was flying around the country with Jenna Ellis, holding these court hearings, where they would talk about supposed evidence of fraud that sometimes involved the van showing up without the right lunch for the election workers or whatever the case may be, that is above and beyond.

And ultimately you still see Trump abandon these people for the most part. Now with Rudy Giuliani, he doesn’t seem to have fully abandoned him. He, generally speaking, still says when asked, Rudy’s a good guy, and the big lie is real. We really did win the election, which they didn’t. And he hasn’t fully abandoned Rudy Giuliani yet. But you would think that maybe he’d be paying for Rudy’s legal fees, and as far as has been reported, he is not.

And what you have to remember about Trump is: he doesn’t really have friends in the way most normal people do. He has people that have a useful life, and this applies to Rudy Giuliani; this applies to Mitch McConnell. 

This applies to his own voters, right? For a while, Trump’s voters were useful to him because he needed their vote. And then in the immediate aftermath of the November 2020 election, Trump’s voters were useful to him because he wanted their money supposedly for flipping results, but it was really to pay off Trump’s campaign debt. And now they’re not really–none of these people are really useful to Trump anymore.

And, some part of me thinks this even applies to Trump’s own family. I believe Trump would let his kids go to prison if it saved him from it. And from everything I’ve seen, that is exactly the picture that I get. 

Doesn’t leave much hope for the Trump-Giuliani relationship, does it?