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Trump’s Dream Legal Team.
You know we are getting sick and tired of the endless mention of the Trump gang when stories start to appear that are based on leaks from the investigations being run by Jack Smith. Because in a city where the daily news is based not on what happened but what someone told someone else as they were standing next to each other in the cocktail lounge at the Hays-Adams Hotel, the people working for Smith have been notoriously quiet about what they are doing and what they have done.
But even the cordon sanitaire that Jack Smith has erected around his group is now beginning to show some cracks with a Rolling Stone story which appeared this week about how Rudy was giving legal advice to the capo di tutti i capi when he was dead drunk. And if consigliere Giuliani was completely shit-faced when he was giving legal advice to the boss, then the boss can’t defend himself by saying that all he was doing was following some good legal advice.
Rudy’s alleged drinking problem also then becomes a defense for his own behavior and activities in the Trump borgata because he wasn’t consciously trying to help his caporegime break the law. Incidentally, if you want some help understanding all those Italian words, just spool up Godfather I or Godfather II. The big joke going around the street when those movies were playing in theaters wasn’t figuring out which Mafia don was being played by Marlon…