"He is said to be doing little these days besides watching television and fulminating with this coterie of loyalists about Republicans not defending him enough…. Though Trump has been exceptionally furious with Vice President Pence, his relationship with lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of his most steadfast defenders, is also fracturing."
Perhaps more out of unsporting habit than authentic disgruntlement, Trump is — and this, granted, is rather understandable — refusing to pay Rudy's $20,000-a-day legal fees. But he's also personally reviewing his fellow bunko artist's expenses related to travel and his slavish, election-fraud obscurantism.
A high-ranking administration official (yes, there's one left) says Trump's ultimate mistreatment of Mr. Giuliani, among other pitiable stooges, "is the logical conclusion of someone who will only accept people in his inner orbit if they are willing to completely set themselves on fire on his behalf."
Yet that misses the feckless target that is Rudy W. L. Giuliani. He has completely set himself on fire countless times, and he is still "expected to play a role in Trump's impeachment defense," reports CNN.
None that now counts. The net of Trump's finger-pointing and blame-laying spreads wide and never snares the most culpable and yet "most steadfast defender" of his loathsome behavior.
Dear Rudy, dear, dear Rudy, did you never notice?