Advisers to Rudy Giuliani have reportedly been pressuring Donald Trump to finally pay his former attorney for his work in challenging the 2020 election, funds he’ll need to pay his own defense lawyers.
With a federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani intensifying in recent weeks, advisers to the former New York City mayor have been pushing for former President Donald Trump to foot the mounting bill for Giuliani’s legal defense team as compensation for his contributions to several unsuccessful lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. According to the report, which was sourced only to several people “familiar with the discussions,” Giuliani’s camp has turned up the pressure on Trump aides since federal investigators last week executed a search warrant on Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and seized several of his electronic devices. The investigation into Giuliani stems from Giuliani’s business dealings in Ukraine that placed him at the center of systematic efforts to oust former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Just before Trump’s first impeachment investigation in 2019, Giuliani’s conduct in Ukraine came into focus during the prosecution of his former associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
