Greenberg Traurig: Good riddance, and not a minute too soon

President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, abruptly resigned from his law firm, which then promptly undercut his recent statements defending the president.

Mr. Giuliani had taken a leave of absence last month from the firm, Greenberg Traurig, to represent Mr. Trump. But the firm, one of the nation’s largest, said in a statement on Thursday that he no longer worked there.

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Mr. Giuliani suggested that such payments [as made to silence Stormy Daniels] were common at his firm, even without the knowledge of the clients. “That was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law firm funds,” he said on Fox News. He added, “Michael would take care of things like this like I take care of this with my clients.”

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Which, if true, is not kosher, and could conceivably put the law firm in legal jeopardy.

Shortly after Mr. Giuliani’s resignation was announced, the firm responded.

“We cannot speak for Mr. Giuliani with respect to what was intended by his remarks,” said a spokeswoman, Jill Perry. “Speaking for ourselves, we would not condone payments of the nature alleged to have been made or otherwise without the knowledge and direction of a client.”

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Mr. Giuliani laughed when read the statement from the firm. “First of all, I don’t think they really understand what I said,” he said. He said he was referring to a nondisclosure agreement that Mr. Cohen had negotiated. “That’s a very common part of a settlement,” he said. “In fact, any lawyer would negotiate that for a client.”

Later on Thursday, Mr. Giuliani said that officials at the firm had never raised concerns about his comments. “They never brought it up,” he said. “I have good feelings about them, but for me, this opens up being able to speak” freely without being concerned about how Greenberg Traurig would react.

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“The last year and a half, I haven’t been on television,” Mr. Giuliani said. “Frankly, I’ve missed it.”

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In its statement, Greenberg Traurig said that Mr. Giuliani had resigned effective Wednesday. “After recognizing that this work is all consuming and is lasting longer than initially anticipated, Rudy has determined it is best for him to resign,” said the firm’s chairman, Richard A. Rosenbaum.

Let me guess: he had help making that decision.

What’s more, Mr. Trump’s team functions better as a collection of free agents as opposed to major names tied to a big firm, which imposes strong restrictions, according to one person familiar with the situation.

Well, that works out nicely then, because no big firm will represent him.

As Mr. Trump tried to rebuild his legal team this spring, firms told their top lawyers that if they wanted to represent the president, they would have to resign.

The firms were concerned about Mr. Trump’s longstanding history of ignoring his lawyers’ advice and apparent failure to pay his bills, and backlash from employees who did not want to work for a firm that was representing Mr. Trump.

I had seen clips of Stormy Daniels' attorney saying the Giuliani interview with George Stephanopolous was a "train wreck", but I had not seen clips of the interview. The attorney was underselling it.

Giuliani is a one-man, three ring circus. Good lord. Unhinged would be a compliment.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.