Donald Trump is preparing to fire Rudy Giuliani
After Rudy Giuliani told the media yesterday that he was the one who convinced Donald Trump to go silent on Twitter so as not to get in the way of Rudy’s media blitz strategy, we knew trouble was brewing when Trump resumed tweeting this morning with a vengeance. Sure enough, now the word is coming that Trump has totally soured on Giuliani’s handling of things, and that he’s preparing to fire him.
First, let’s be clear that there have been plenty of times in which Trump has made it known to the media that he’s preparing to fire someone, and most of the time, he either hems and haws about it for several more months before finally doing it, or he never does fire them at all. Politico is reporting this afternoon that Trump’s aides say he’s preparing to fire Giuliani. This should be taken with a grain of salt, not because of any doubts about Politico, but because Trump prepares to do a lot of things he doesn’t go through with. Still, this tells us a lot about what we’ve really been seeing play out over the past week.
So much for the notion that Trump and Rudy cooked up this scheme as some sort of evil genius strategy that no one understands but them. Rudy’s representation of Trump has been absolutely disastrous. Not only has it helped to incriminate Trump in a legal sense, it’s also painted him as guilty in the court of public opinion, and it’s placed additional focus and scrutiny on a scandal that Trump was hoping would fade away. The real question here is whether Giuliani has been sabotaging Trump on purpose because he wants to hasten Trump’s demise, or because Rudy is simply too bonkers to understand the damage he’s done. There’s also one other question.
We know that Donald Trump soured five days ago on Rudy Giuliani’s strategy of confessing to everything. So why didn’t he shut him down then? Why wait until now to finally rein Rudy in? It raises the question of whether Trump is now talking about firing Giuliani, not because he’s behaving like the world’s worst attorney, but because Trump doesn’t like all the attention Rudy got on yesterday’s Sunday morning talk show circuit. Or perhaps Trump simply can’t handle that Rudy was portrayed by a woman on SNL this weekend.
