Just minutes before the closing bell, the Daily Beast reported Thursday that former New York City Mayor Rudy Guliani has been in talks to join President Trump’s legal team.
Trump’s legal team has been suffering from a shortage of manpower since the resignation of lead attorney John Dowd. Trump had hoped to hire Joe diGeneva and his wife, Victoria Toensing, but the two were forced to bow out because of a conflict. And of course Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is now embroiled in a legal fiasco of his own.
Guliani joining Trump’s team would go a long way toward alleviating this shortage. The former mayor has been involved in several high-profile cases since the end of his political career, including representing Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab. The former mayor was reportedly disappointed that he was passed over for Secretary of State.
There were also rumors that Guliani would be tapped to replace James Comey after the sanctimonious former FBI director was fired by Trump.
Guliani has been a staunch ally of Trump’s since almost the beginning of Trump’s campaign. Back in November, 2016, he appeared on Fox News to harshly criticize Comey’s handling of the Clinton probe. He also gave a widely lauded speech at the Republican Convention before Trump accepted the nomination.
According to the Daily Beast, Trump has been too distracted with pressing foreign policy concerns from North Korea to Syria to focus on repopulating his legal team.
The DB’s report followed another report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had told the president that Trump isn’t currently a target of the Mueller probe – a report that sent the Dow 100 points higher.
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