One year ago, Rudy Giuliani was riding high as then-President Donald Trump‘s righthand man. Today, he’s persona non grata in Trumpland, but he still doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo, despite being totally iced out by his former BFF.
Reports that Giuliani is struggling financially have been circulating for months. Now, The Daily Beast reports that things are even worse than people initially thought. Because he’s not just broke. He’s broke and friendless.
Apparently, Giuliani has been completely shut out from both Donald Trump’s inner and outer circles. Not only is the ex-president refusing to take his calls, but none of his former henchmen colleagues will even acknowledge his existence anymore.
Giuliani is currently ensnared in several lawsuits plus a federal investigation into his alleged illegal dealings with Ukraine.
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After Trump refused to pay him for his efforts at trying to overturn the 2020 election results on his behalf, the former New York City mayor had to resort to crowdfunding to cover his mounting legal expenses, which are said to be costing him millions of dollars.
“There have been times when I’ve asked people in the [former] president’s orbit to see if Trump wanted to draw attention to the fundraising,” an unnamed Giuliani associate says. “That went nowhere. Many of these people wouldn’t even tweet or retweet [links to the legal fund] when I asked them to.”
Damn! Not even a retweet?
The Daily Beast notes:
While Giuliani’s longtime friend Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, has pitched in to create a fundraising site for Rudy’s legal bills, few others have been willing to even throw Trump’s former consigliere an RT on Twitter. (Trump himself can’t retweet anything, as he’s banned from Twitter for instigating political violence, but he could issue a statement of support for Giuliani’s fund and have it spread far and wide through the app.)
Insiders say Guiliani’s dwindling staff have made “several fruitless attempts” to get help from someone–anyone!–in Trumpland, but they’ve gone out of their way “not publicly voice their displeasure with the ex-president’s lack of action or financial relief.”
“We are allowed to call out the RNC and other Republican leaders,” one source says. “But not Donald Trump.”
Earlier this summer, Giuliani raised just under $10,000 to cover his legal bills on Fundly before the fundraising page vanished. He initially hoped to raise $5 million in two months.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Max
where’s your pal now?
remember that skit where you dressed in drag and he kissed you on the cheek? what happened to the love?
it was never there, you were never really friends.
you can’t do your profession anymore and you’ve run out of money.
look what you’ve done to yourself, Rudy.
Hank31
I don’t see how he could be broke. When he ended his term as mayor of NYC, he cashed in for millions and millions of dollars. Trading on his post-9/11 reputation, he set up a security consultant firm, which got huge contracts. He wrote a best-selling book. And he worked as a partner in a lucrative NYC law firm. And there’s speaking fees from when he was very popular. I find it hard to believe that he blew through all of that wealth when proceedings against him are only just starting up.
Cam
Trump inherited over $200 million dollars and is now bankrupt and in hundreds of millions of dollars of debt.
So why would it surprise you that Giuliani blew all his money?
TedV
Two expensive divorces, two kids with various issues, expensive homes on the Upper East Side and East Hampton, memberships at expensive clubs, being drummed out of your own law firm because the other partners were embarrassed by you. It adds up. I feel sorry for the guy… said no one ever.
GayEGO
Too bad he didn’t know that Trump would stiff him and cost him a lot of moolah!
RyanMBecker
Russian prostitutes?
All Borat kidding aside, I too suspect him of hiding money and declaring poverty as a fundraising scam. His problem is that he is incredibly unpopular and somewhat repulsive, so no one is paying attention.
Kangol2
@Cam, Don the Con inherited over $400 million total by the time his daddy died. He has repeatedly lied about his inheritance, but despite all that money Don the Con has gone bankrupt repeatedly, has scammed the federal and state governments out of millions and millions of dollars, pigged off the US government while president, and is now scamming his cultist followers. Ghouliani is roadkill to this monster!
Hank31
@TedV His divorce might well explain a good deal of this. I read up on it, and apparently he and his then-wife had a $230,000 monthly budget, six houses, and 11 country club memberships. It’s obscene. If they really were blowing through $2.7 million/year and he then had to give her a lot of property and cash, I could see that making him vulnerable.
But I still find it impossible to believe that he is near “broke.” He would still have some of those properties, worth millions. And the really expensive item – a criminal trial, which might cost $5-10 million to defend if it is a long, drawn-out proceeding – hasn’t happened yet. I think he is crying poverty b/c he wants others to fund his criminal defense. Why sell properties and spend $5 million if you can get others to pay for it?
Harley
WAMP wamp
My2CentsWorth
The biggest puzzle to me is despite the constant stream of damaging news about Trump and the way he treats/abuse people there are still many Trump supporters. Do they think that he will be willing to do anything for them? Really do anything?
GayEGO
I knew this was coming, Trump threw Giuliani under the bus! Trump lost the election so he adds Giuliani to his blame list. Rudy has to grapple with his finances because he was stiffed by Trump!
Fahd
Like I said, gee that’s too bad that Guiliani, who on January 6th from the podium fervently called on Trump supporters to engage in trial by combat, is going through these hardships.
humble charlie
Against my better judgement, I’m beginning to feel sorry for him. “But but but but, he’s a nut nut nut nut nut” – inspired by “The Music Man” Next time, Rudy, don’t hitch your wagon to an orange cowflop.
humble charlie
And is there a character in Shakespeare that parallels Giuliani? Someone, who from the heights has fallen to the depths and is now considered a foolish old man (And some people think Shakespeare wrote fiction.)?
Major
I just went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to see if I give a damn about Rudy. As expected, not one bit of give-a-damn was given.
LegionKeign
I looked for 2 shits and came up empty handed, guess rudy’s shit-out-of-luck…HhahahhhahhahHHHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAHHHhhHHAAHAH!
BaltoSteve
I can’t think of more perfect example of “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!”
toddlicious
Thoughts and prayers mo**** fu****!
chappy51
It sucks to be you, Rudi!! You should have known Trump was a deadbeat! Now he doesn’t know you!
Mr. Stadnick
Has asked Tiffany? She might help!
jcool
funny
JRamonMc
Rudy, save yourself millions in legal fee’s and represent yourself. It’s worked so well for you in the past. That should seal your fate!
jcool
he’s not allowed to practice law in new york. maybe he can give lynn wood an iou
Jon in Canada
His misery pleases me to no end.
Essie
Well, he still has his son who will soon be Gov. of NY . . . or not!!
Kangol2
Ghouliani was such a hateful, racist person when he was mayor, publicly treated his wives like crap, and then spent years trying to smear Biden and his son and then lied on behalf of that traitor Don the Con, so I feel zero sympathy for him. He made this bed and now has to lie in it.
nm4047
I’d feel sorry for him, except he’s a politician.
fredk3
maybe he could enter one of those reality shows where contestants get socked by giant boxing gloves and pushed into a pool. would be good for laughs.
Heywood Jablowme
see Rudy Giuliani’s Unhinged Rant About Ferrets – an animated YouTube by Slate.com
As mayor, Giuliani hated ferrets (they’re still illegal as pets in NYC). He routinely called them “weasels.” With so much weasel experience you’d think he’d have figured out Trump by now.
CNY1983
Is his Yankees ring on eBay yet?
HenryHawke
Giuliani has now joined another esteemed Trump related group. He is one of the dozens (Hundreds? Thousands?) of people beloved leader has stiffed over the years, some of whom were bankrupted by him. Welcome to the club, Rudy. Welcome to the club. And don’t even think beloved leader is gonna help you out. Failure to fulfill any of his bizarre mandates automatically puts you on his enemies list. He considers that to be disloyalty and must be punished.
Liquid Silver
Who?