(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Rudy begged Trump for money - how did that go? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-19 Rudy Giuliani has his Manhattan apartment on the market , although the listing does not mention he is the owner. He is asking $6.5 million - and needs the money. He cannot put his Hamptons home up for sale because he lost that to his third ex-wife Judith in their divorce. Besides, she sold it in 2021 and pocketed the cash. Now she is suing him for another $260,000 he still owes her. That is not the end of his potential financial outlays. The gnomish drunk was named in a civil suit by an ex-employee, who said Giuliani made clear that satisfying his sexual demands was an "absolute requirement" of her job. Noelle Dunphy, who is seeking $10 million, said Giuliani began abusing her almost immediately after hiring her as an off-the-books employee in January 2019. Dunphy also said Giuliani went on "alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks" that made her work environment unbearable, and fired her in January 2021 without paying her deferred salary. How Rudy is getting a taste of what it is like to do a job and get stiffed for it. Once on top of the post 9/11 world as “America’s Mayor” — he was named Time’s 2001 Man of the Year — he quietly failed to become America’s President in 2008 when he finished 8th in the GOP primaries and quit without winning a single delegate. Three of Rudy’s four seasons Then in April 2018, this rat climbed onto Trump’s ship to join his legal team. The rest is infamy. As a dye-sweat-streaked advocate, he farted his way through court appearances and gave press conferences in front of landscape businesses . This work for Trump has left him the subject of some expensive legal attention. Rudy is “ Co-Conspirator 1 ” in Trump’s DC indictment. Dominion is suing him for $1.3 billion, claiming he had made “defamatory falsehoods” to “promote a false preconceived narrative about the 2020 election.” And he has been indicted in Georgia under their RICO law ( delicious irony ) for attempted election fixing. Giuliani's legal outgoes are stratospheric, while his current income is limited. Especially as his number one — and only — client is a world-class cheapskate, chiseler, and bill dodger. A fact Rudy has discovered for himself. Although why he did not know before is anyone’s guess, as Trump’s money-grubbing reputation is no secret. I suspect Giuliani is a victim of hubris. He probably considered himself too valuable to be stiffed, But Trump's aversion to paying lawyers is absolute. And it is why the 2020 loser is reduced to hiring shysters and ambulance chasers. According to the New York Times, Rudy is sitting on a $3 million pile of legal bills. And despite repeatedly begging Trump, he has received only $340,000 for expenses and nothing for his time. As the paper reports : The effort to collect legal fees from Mr. Trump began in earnest more than two years ago. Mr. Giuliani’s main lawyer, Robert J. Costello, started calling people in Mr. Trump’s orbit, making the case that the former president was on the hook for legal fees Mr. Giuliani incurred because of his work for Mr. Trump. This spring, Mr. Giuliani reached out to Mr. Trump directly and asked to meet, the people said. Mr. Trump agreed, and in late April, they met at Mr. Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach. The meeting was pleasant, and lasted more than an hour, a person familiar with the meeting said. But Mr. Trump, who was accompanied by one of his Florida attorneys, was noncommittal. Yet he agreed to meet them again, two days later, at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, a meeting previously reported by CNN. Over a nearly two-hour dinner, Mr. Costello pressed Mr. Trump to cover not only Mr. Giuliani’s legal bills, but also to pay him for the work Mr. Giuliani provided Mr. Trump in the wake of the 2020 election. Mr. Trump resisted, noting that Mr. Giuliani did not win any of those cases. Mr. Costello, who did most of the talking for Mr. Giuliani, said that the money was not coming out of Mr. Trump’s own pocket, but rather the coffers of his PAC. By the end of the dinner, Mr. Trump agreed that Mr. Giuliani would be paid, one person said. But in the weeks that followed, neither he nor the PAC delivered. And Mr. Giuliani was growing more and more desperate. A federal judge was exasperated with Mr. Giuliani for failing to search for records as part of a defamation lawsuit that two Georgia election workers filed against him because he falsely accused them of stealing ballots. Mr. Giuliani said that he could not afford to pay for a vendor to do so. Mr. Costello pleaded with Mr. Trump’s aides to pay off Mr. Giuliani’s balance with the vendor, and the PAC made a $340,000 payment to that firm. Since then, however, the PAC has not covered any other bills for Mr. Giuliani. Stories like this are often called Shakespearean. Why not? It is a tale of a deeply flawed character, blinded by towering ambition and mindless subservience, who is thwarted by fate and the machinations of a vainglorious and duplicitous lord dismissive of the pain of others, who tends only to his own exaltation. And is greedy to preserve his treasury and rank, as he suffers the slings and arrows of self-induced outrageous fortune. Or you could view Rudy as the Black Hat’s expendable henchman in a spaghetti western — not quite as sexy, but probably more accurate. 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