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Trump in Eye of Storm, Rudy Holds Umbrella

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 12/24/18

It’s unlikely that as the Dec. 16 edition of the Washington Post trumpeted what it called “mounting legal threats” to President Trump based on the reality that “nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation,” Rudy Giuliani stopped to reflect, as he made the rounds of the Sunday morning talk shows, on the irony that his reputation as an anti-corruption prosecutor was now being used in Mr. Trump’s defense.

It’s been a long, strange trip for both of them since their friendship first blossomed during the 1980s, rooted in part on a corruption scandal involving city government.

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