Finding out that Rudy Giuliani was taking Donald Trump’s case pro bono makes a weird kind of sense. I mean, Rudy’s utter incompetence and penchant for digging Trump’s hole of trouble ever deeper is deeply embarrassing for that monster, but Trump’s distaste for paying for the work that people do for him is also pretty well noted. Rudy may be doing a lousy job, but free is free, yeah? But beyond free, Trump’s trouble with finding representation for his pending legal issues has been very public, so his willingness to go to bat for the man has value as well. But yeah, as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for, and Rudy’s work is certainly worth the price tag of zero dollars.
Sometimes I genuinely wonder if Rudy Giuliani is on Donald Trump’s side. I mean, at a certain point, I remember thinking Giuliani was a reasonable person. Sure, he’s always been highly conservative in his politics, but I vaguely recall him not coming off as a crazy person at one point. Then he starts being Donald Trump’s lawyer, and he starts saying things which sort of feel like he’s sabotaging his own case. He rarely talks about Trump’s innocence, and mostly just refers to how Trump can snake his way around the law as the President. He talks about how Trump could get away with murder, and Trump’s recollection is “always changing”. I’ve seen more than one episode of Law & Order, I know that’s how lawyers imply folks are lying. It’s just…is he actually trying to help the President or sink him? Is this one elaborate long con?
So Michael Cohen may prove to be quite a thorn in the President’s side. The fact of the matter is that Cohen has been seen as Trump’s “fixer” for about 20 years now, and what he might know, and what he has probably done in the name of protecting Trump…I mean we can’t even begin to guess. Trump will admit he was no boyscout, and in the process of trying to figure out how Cohen relates to the bigger picture of Trump and Russia, the rabbit hole of questionable or illegal activity…well it could be damning. Trump has to be sweating over this pretty hard.
So, the raid on Michael Cohen’s place has really amped up Trump and his rhetoric about getting rid of Mueller and killing this Russia investigation. He’s acting like a wannabe mob boss, except, unfortunately, he can actually really cause some bad things to happen. But there is a funny thing buried in articles that no one seems to be mentioning, or at least not yet. Trump is so busy fuming at Mueller, but it turns out Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, personally signed off on the raid. This wasn’t Mueller making a unilateral decision against Trump. He got the a-ok from the guy who would ACTUALLY be able to fire him. I’m sure Trump is probably aware of this factoid, but the way he’s talking about it, you’d think Rod was working his ass off to keep Trump from hearing about it.
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