Donald Trump is annoyed with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for asking to get payment for his work challenging the result of the presidential election and has cut him off, a new book says.
According to an excerpt of Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, published in The Times of London on Sunday, Trump is annoyed with Giuliani for seeking compensation for his legal services.
“Trump is annoyed that he tried to get paid for his election challenge work,” Wolff wrote.
Giuliani’s attempts to seek payment from Trump amid the prospect of expensive legal battles of his own has been met with “the cold shoulder,” according to Wolff.
The Trump family has also “cast out, cut off” Giuliani, Wolff wrote. He did not specify which members did. Trump has also taken to asking visitors to Mar-a-Lago “if they know any good” lawyers to help him continue his plan to try and overturn the election in the courts.
It is not clear how much money Trump owes Giuliani, but according to The New York Times, Giuliani was charging the Trump campaign $20,000 per day to challenge the results of the election in a number of states across the country.
Giuliani is currently under investigation by the Justice Department where prosecutors are probing whether he illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who were allegedly helping him to dig up dirt on then-candidate Joe Biden. He’s also being sued by Dominion and Smartmatic for accusing the voting machine companies of conspiring with Democrats to steal the election from Trump. Giuliani was also suspended from practicing law in New York due to making “false and misleading statements” about the election loss of Donald Trump.
