Rudy Giuliani just gave away how utterly screwed he is
Rudy Giuliani is on the verge of federal criminal indictment. His former henchman Igor Fruman just agreed to plead guilty. Trump world has cut Rudy off. He’s broke, he’s desperate, he’s without guidance, and he’s struggling badly in the cognitive and mental competence departments. That’s all added up to Rudy doing a very ill-advised, and revealing, new interview with NBC New York.
During the interview, Giuliani announced that the FBI is now looking at his emails and text messages dating back to 1995. There are only two possibilities here. One is that Rudy is merely hallucinating this, which is possible given that 1) text messages and emails were rare back in 1995, and 2) he’s a total headcase. If he is making this up, it means he’s totally screwed in terms of how badly his mind is deteriorating. But this would actually be the better scenario for him.
If Rudy isn’t making this up, and and the Feds really are going back through twenty-six years of evidence against him, it means he’s really screwed. Here’s the thing. Just to be able to convince a judge to sign off on the warrant to raid Rudy’s home, the Feds would have already needed to have more than enough evidence to put Rudy away. So they’ve got him nailed, on charges that would likely amount to a de facto life sentence for him, given his advanced age and deteriorating health. But it’s clear that they want more than that.
When you’ve already got enough to put away a guy for life, there’s only one reason to dig into his entire decades-long crime spree and indict him for every law he’s ever broken. It’s to make him realize that he’s guaranteed to lose at trial and go to prison for life, so that he’ll be motivated to cut a plea deal against bigger fish.
