Where Is Trump’s Former Attorney Today?

In July 2019, Rudy Giuliani called me to dispute an Intelligencer piece that said he’d cursed during an appearance on Fox & Friends. The president’s personal lawyer insisted that he’d caught himself, merely uttering “bullsh–.” Giuliani shrugged off the piece’s generally disparaging tone as “mostly opinion,” but remarked: “You guys seem to think I’m doing a terrible job, but given the fact that I got the president cleared of all the charges, I don’t think I made that many mistakes.”

At the time, Giuliani was flying high: He was on Fox News to mock (and impersonate!) Robert Mueller as the special counsel’s congressional hearings fizzled. Given the fact that Donald Trump was impeached five months later, and then impeached again after losing an election he tried his damnedest to steal, recent reviews of Giuliani’s performance haven’t been kind. But, say what you will, America’s Mayor never stops delivering his distinct brand of conspiratorial quackery. Any Trump surrogate can spread election lies that threaten the very foundations of our democracy. But only Rudy can do it with hair dye streaming down the side of his face.

Let’s take a look at what Giuliani has been doing with his time now that he’s no longer representing Trump.

At his annual 9/11 dinner on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Giuliani gave a rambling speech in Manhattan during which he claimed he had turned down an offer of knighthood from Queen Elizabeth. He attempted to impersonate her and went off on a tangent where he vehemently denied palling around with Prince Andrew (or joining him for any alleged sex trafficking):

Somewhat surprisingly, there haven’s been many headlines about Giuliani’s controversial opinions on 9/11 in the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the attack. But that’s not because he hasn’t been airing them. In an interview with TV station WTTG last week, he suggested that 9/11 happened because Bill Clinton is a “sucker.” Per Raw Story:

“To break our spirit, to demoralize us, you take our financial center, our military center, our political center all in one shot,” the former mayor explained. “And those weak Americans – remember, [Al Qaeda] had attacked us a couple of times and declared war against us, and basically Bill Clinton kind of did what Biden just did.”

“You know, a little strike here, a little strike there, a couple of fields that had no people in it,” he…