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Reports this week suggest that Trump fixer Rudy Giuliani may be cash-strapped as he faces a criminal investigation and two defamation lawsuits now that the disgraced former mayor has downsized his altar by laying off several employees and independent contractors in In recent weeks, according to Politico reporting that Giuliani no longer moves around Manhattan with the full complement of up to five people he has kept around him in recent years, a person familiar with the matter says employees of his former employer were told them that the former mayor of new york was trying to cut costs the new york times also reported this week that the former mayor of new york's advisers want donald trump to use this $250 million war chest to pay for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, yet people close to trump said he stridently refused to do it i mean he doesn't pay his bills we also know that

giuliani

isn't exactly frugal when it comes to spending habits political reports that one of the Ex-wives of man who made millions by monetizing his post-9/11 reputation in court papers claiming Rudy shelled out tens of thousands of dollars on a private jet subscription service, said he spent seven thousand dollars on fountain pens and another twelve thousand dollars only in cigars.

It has also been reported that he is a high roller at the New York hotel. cigar club the havana room and also pays 42,000 a month in alimony to his third ex-wife according to the washington post the latest reports on

giuliani

's financial difficulties come after the federal investigation into giuliani's business intensified last week in Ukraine with the FBI raid on his apartment it is not known what prosecutors may discover in the electronic devices they seized now george conway writes in an open Washington Post that Trump may want to reconsider giuliani's rigidity on those bills is Because if Giuliani has anything to offer prosecutors saving himself it would have to be Trump, the only bigger fish left and joining me now is Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, host of the Mia Culpa podcast and author of Disloyal, and someone who knows very well what it feels like to be thrown under the bus uh by the donald um I want to play for you someone that I'm sure you know andrew giuliani the son of rudy giuliani and here's his advice uh I guess to donald trump listen do you hope your father can get something? help from Trump's legal defense fund, I think he should be compensated, I think you know, I think all those Americans who donated after November 3rd were donating to the legal defense fund, my father was running the legal team at the time , I'm not sure what that means. for compensated, but what do you think about that?

Because it seems to me that if he stiffens up maybe Andrew's dad could say, okay, so let me be very clear, they're

going

to toughen him up, okay, Donald Trump, who did you correctly allude to? He doesn't pay legally. bills nor learn from his previous mistakes, which is exactly the same thing he did to me, now he doesn't care about anything or anyone but himself, since we also know that they took advantage of many people who were donating to the different trump pacs or funds and that they had them constantly replenished month after month and now they have to return them so that they are no longer 250 million.

Now Donald, in his crazy mind, truly believed that this was now his money and that he could do with it whatever he wanted, so the chances of him parting with a single dollar knowing that it's

going

to cost several million dollars to raise a proper tank team, which by the way, the people they have right now were not able to do it, it took 26 people to review my 14 million documents literally 24 hours a day because the judge demanded that we do it in a period of 45 days. Now I don't know how quickly they're required to do it, but it takes a very sophisticated and very significant computer organization to go through everything that's on these devices and I'm sure there's a multitude of things that they're going to try to maintain, you know, Out of range. hands of the sdny under the guise of attorney-client privilege and unfortunately those come with motions and then you know oppositions and so on, and the saddest thing for you, I should say the good thing is that uh said by rudy well for the rest of us it's not going to work because we guarantee that the information they find will be illegal, so it is not protected information if it is under the criminal fraud exception rule and if it is not the criminal fraud exception rule, I'm sure, Rudy added. other people and I copied these communications to people like jared ivanka don or someone else who are not lawyers, thus breaking the chain of attorney-client privilege, I mean, he is just dumb, are you surprised to know that Rudy Giuliani used to do it? being a federal prosecutor, you know, he used to be mayor of New York, of the biggest cities in the world, are you surprised that he took Trump's job after publicly freeing him from what we heard he wanted like 20,000 a week, not get it and Basically did everything he did in case of contingency.

Are you surprised he hasn't tried to get paid upfront? Doesn't he hate correcting you? But it was twenty thousand dollars a day and he really thought about one day. he thought that donald trump was going to pay him one hundred and forty thousand dollars a day he has a better chance of shooting for the moon i mean it's impossible that donald trump wouldn't pay him two cents because he feels that it is an honor and a privilege to go to prison so that he did his dirty work and as long as rudy kept, you know, caressing donald's butt and you know, kissing the ring, so I like to say something else, but kissing donald trump's ring, then he was well, within the orbit.

So what did dumb Rudy do? He went around the world selling America's service to foreign organizations and countries, that's how he was going to make money. He was using Donald and Donald was using him, so Donald never had it in him, ever. He had the thought in his mind that he was ever going to pay Rudy and he was listening to Andrew, who may be dumber than Eric Trump, talk about this nonsense, it's funny to me, it's funny what should literally last time I said in another program. The last time I saw Andrew he was giving a golf lesson at Trump's course, that's where he should be right now instead of speaking for his father.

His father shouldn't say anything. Andrew shouldn't say anything. They should sit down with the prosecutors right now. Rudy knows exactly how the game is going to be, he created the rules, he created the rules to go after organized crime and they are going to use the same playbook that he created against him and it works because they squeeze you and they know that Rudy is in trouble right now So when you're in financial trouble, how are you going to pay the millions of dollars that you think Dershowitz is going to work for free or that this guy, Bob Costello, is going to work for the other two lawyers he brought in? by the way, none of them are capable of becoming a corrupt computer, they may know how to do it, but not when you have millions of documents, it really requires a very sophisticated computerized system to review each and every document, yes, and of course. uh we know that alan dershowitz I don't know if he's working for him, but he's, you know, Jeffrey Epstein, some of his previous clients, you know Klaus Bulow, Donald Trump, uh, last question for you, Rudolph, let me play Rudy Giuliani very quickly, this is Giuliani saying. he had an insurance policy and this is 2019, listen I've seen things written like he's going to throw me under the bus right when they say that, I say no but I have insurance, do you have an insurance policy?

Sounds realistic to you, probably welcome, by the way, so I put a hashtag the other day under the bus club, welcome Judy to the UN to Rudy to the bus club, um, what's your insurance, I don't know, Geico State Farm. all-state, who the hell knows what he's talking about? The problem with rudy is that he drinks like crazy and the worst thing he can do is drink and then go on television because you know he's stupid to drink the way he does and he's stupider for appearing on shows like yours u others trying to prove a point that he is absolutely guilty of and all he is doing is just creating more damage and giving Donald more reasons not to pay, that's how it works. welcome welcome to the under the bus club rudy

michael

cohen

you never disappoint my friend when you come to the show wow I'm going to think about that I'm going to think about that I'm going to reflect on that uh for the rest probably the rest of the show Hello, thanks for watching our YouTube channel.

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