Special master appointed in criminal case against Rudy Giuliani
With a grand jury underway to criminally indict Donald Trump, and Matt Gaetz’s situation getting uglier by the day, it’s easy to forget that Rudy Giuliani is also in the process of being criminally indicted. In fact the raid of Rudy’s house last month suggests that he could end up arrested before Trump or Gaetz. Now Rudy’s situation has gotten worse.
Giuliani’s team tried to argue in court that his seized communications with Donald Trump are all protected under attorney-client privilege. Of course attorney-client privilege doesn’t exist when the attorney and the client are conspiring together to commit crimes. Sure enough, the judge responded today by appointing a special master to review the communications and decide what is or is not privileged.
This can only be seen as a major loss for Giuliani. He was surely hoping he’d been assigned a rogue judge who was willing to ignore precedent and throw out his seized communications with Trump. Instead the judge is handling this precisely how it’s supposed to be handled.
As we’ve seen in other similar criminal cases, Rudy’s incriminating communications with Trump and Trump’s representatives will now indeed end up being included as evidence against him at trial, once the special master parses them out. This will make it far easier to get a conviction against Giuliani at trial, meaning he’s likely headed to prison. It also means that Giuliani is now in dire need of a cooperating plea deal against Trump. Whether Giuliani realizes yet that he’s up against the wall is another story.
