Rudy Giuliani’s endgame

| 7:08 pm EDT May 20, 2018
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Rudy Giuliani’s two weeks are up. He publicly promised Donald Trump that he could somehow magically make all the investigations into Trump’s various crimes go away within a week or two – and that was more than a month ago. In that time Rudy has made a total mess for Trump, confessing to a number of Trump’s crimes, and then trying to walk it all back. Trump keeps incompetent boobs around far longer than he should, but even he runs out of patience eventually. Giuliani is on the clock. So what’s his endgame?

That requires understanding how and why Rudy Giuliani decided to jump in as Donald Trump’s new “attorney.” Giuliani’s former co-conspirator Reza Zarrab cut a plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller about six months ago, so Giuliani is in trouble. In fact, there were signs that seemed to point to Rudy having cut a plea deal of his own, or having at least moved in that direction. Then Rudy’s wife decided to divorce him six weeks ago, which felt like an attempt at dividing the assets before Mueller could move in and arrest Rudy and seize his money. Now, of course, Rudy is acting as Trump’s lawyer in such comically inept fashion, you have to ask if he’s trying to sabotage Trump on purpose.

These various pieces of the puzzle don’t all fit together particularly well. Mueller could have moved to get Giuliani removed from representing Trump, on the grounds that Giuliani is an alleged Trump co-consirator, but Mueller decided not to even bother trying. Mueller would certainly be pleased with Trump having an incompetent attorney. But it’s difficult to imagine that Mueller would cut a plea deal with Rudy and then allow him to represent Trump, as that could potentially blow back on Mueller if a judge didn’t think it was on the up-and-up.

So that leaves us with two potential explanations. The first is that Rudy Giuliani knows the longer the Trump-Russia investigation goes on, the more likely it is to land on his own head, so he’s trying to hurry up and get Donald Trump ousted by representing him as poorly as possible. The second is that Rudy truly has lost it, and that he honestly thinks he’s doing a good job of helping Trump out.

Either way, the key to the puzzle would seem to be the fact that Rudy Giuliani decided to begin representing Donald Trump almost immediately after his wife left him. That can’t be a coincidence. But did they get divorced because Rudy knows he’s going to have to cut a plea deal, and they wanted to shield his wife’s half of the assets? Or did she leave him because he’s gone off the deep end? Figure out that answer, and Rudy’s endgame will make more sense.

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