Rudy Giuliani “begged” former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills during a face-to-face meeting at Mar-a-Lago, reports claimed.
A desperate Giuliani traveled to Trump’s Florida home with his attorney Robert Costello in April to meet with the former president and plead why he should pay his former attorney’s legal bills. CNN reported that.
According to the outlet, Giuliani and Costello had two separate meetings with Trump to discuss him about the reportedly seven-figure sum.
They reportedly tried to plead with Trump and explain why it would be in the interest of the 2024 Republican presidential nominee to cover the costs. Trump showed little interest, however, verbally agreeing to help the former New York mayor without committing to details, CNN reported.
It comes amid Giuliani’s entanglements with Trump that led to the former president being indicted for a fourth time this week amid allegations that he had pushed to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election.
Giuliani, a close Trump adviser at the time, is also being charged in the Georgia case and is accused of making several false claims about the vote-counting process.
Donald Trump, then US President, (right) listens as his then personal attorney Rudy Giuliani speaks to the City of New York Police Benevolent Association at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ on August 14, 2020
Rudy Giuliani, former attorney for Donald Trump, and his attorney Robert Costello, departed, arrive Wednesday at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
An aerial view of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where Giuliani and his lawyer traveled to “beg” former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills
Following the April meetings between Trump, Giuliani and Costello, CNN reported that the former president agreed to attend two of his former attorney’s fundraisers.
The outlet said Trump agreed to cover a small portion of the costs that caused his Trump Save America PAC to pay $340,000 to cover the costs of a data seller hoisting Giuliani’s record.
Another of Giuliani’s lawyers told a New York state judge on Wednesday that the former mayor was unable to pay the costs of additional legal fees requiring him to produce documents in a libel lawsuit from voter technology company Smartmatic. The company has sued Giuliani over claims he made about the 2020 election.
Giuliani could face more stress as his legal troubles pile up.
He was charged this week by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, charged with a “criminal enterprise” as part of Trump’s efforts to overthrow the election. By court order, he must turn himself in for arrest before August 25.
Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney, played a prominent public role in the campaign’s efforts to advance false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
The former mayor of New York City was involved in a lawsuit that was dismissed by courts and falsely claimed at local hearings in Georgia that he possessed evidence proving voter fraud.
The grad jury indictment alleges he made numerous false statements about voter fraud, including to officials in other states like Arizona and Pennsylvania, in a failed attempt to convince them to approve an alternate list of voters to keep Trump in office .
Former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney at the time, Rudy Giuliani, speaks at a press conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia
Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on August 17, 2022
He and other Trump allies are also accused of making false statements to Georgia lawmakers about the election, including allegations of vote-counting errors by Dominion voting machines. Giuliani’s attorney declined to comment.
He also faces legal action from electionemployees Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, named in the indictment, and have sued Giuliani for libel. A judge ordered him to pay $89,000 in legal fees.
Despite Fox News settling with Dominion at the 11th hour in April after the voting systems company alleged the conservative network knowingly broadcast false claims that its machines were being used to rig the 2020 presidential election, it is believed the defamation lawsuit against Giuliani is still pending.
Dominion sued Giuliani and Sidney Powell, also Trump’s former attorney, in January 2021, saying the voting equipment company was defamed by their false claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election.
Reuters confirmed that both lawsuits are still pending. “Dominion is not done with accountability,” a Dominion spokesperson said in an email to the news agency.
Chapman University law professor John Eastman stands at left as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaks in Washington at a rally in support of President Donald Trump, January 6, 2021
Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally after being introduced by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, August 9, 2016, in Wilmington
“We have six active cases against media outlets and individuals who knowingly spread harmful lies about our company, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.”
He was also accused in May of sexually harassing Noelle Dunphy, a published writer and business consultant, when she worked for him as an associate between 2019 and 2021.
In a federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan, the 44-year-old alleged for two years that she was a victim of regular sexual abuse at the hands of her high-profile ex-employer — who had since had his law license suspended after defending his client in the aftermath of the 2020 elections.
Included in the bomb threat are allegations that the Giuliani regularly — and without warning — demanded that she perform oral sex on him, sometimes while speaking on speaker phone to Trump, forcing her to lie to the FBI as they investigated him.
Giuliani has “unequivocally” denied the allegations.