Will Rudy lose his seat at the Trump table?

Trump was apoplectic after a pair of weekend media interviews by his personal lawyer, in which Giuliani said that the president had been involved in discussions to build a Trump Tower in Moscow through the end of the 2016 campaign — a statement that enraged Trump because it contradicted his own public position, according to two sources close to the president.

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Trump spent much of Sunday and Monday fuming to aides and friends about his lawyer’s missteps. Most of those people share Trump’s frustration, noting that the former New York mayor often appears to lack a mastery of the facts of Trump’s legal headaches.

Giuliani’s public remarks — typically made in sporadic clusters of freewheeling media interviews — have long exasperated White House aides, including the president’s in-house lawyer handling the Russia investigation, Emmet Flood.

  Politico

I bet that's right.

Asked who in the White House is responsible for handling Giuliani’s missteps, a White House aide said, “Handling Rudy’s f--- ups takes more than one man.”

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“I do have a mastery of the facts, which is why I can spin them honestly, argue them several different ways,” Giuliani said.

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Giuliani, who represents the president pro bono, pushed back on the notion that Trump is frustrated with him. “We’ve known each other for 30 years. And I haven’t heard him complain,” he told POLITICO. “And nobody in the White House would complain to me. They just do it behind my back.”

Pro bono. President Deals, you get what you pay for.

Giuliani blamed the media for the confusion, saying reporters are confused by his reliance on hypothetical arguments and take them literally.

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Arguing in the alternative is a legal concept involving the use of hypotheticals, although The New York Times gave no indication that is what Giuliani was doing when it reported on Saturday that he said Trump told him discussions about Trump Tower Moscow were “going on from the day I announced to the day I won.”

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Despite his frustrations with Giuliani, Trump associates say the president understands his value as an attack dog against Mueller. Because legal advisers have told the president that he cannot be indicted while in office, Trump has put a greater emphasis on the politics of the Mueller probe and fending off a potential impeachment by Congress rather than on contesting specific allegations the special counsel seems to be pursuing.

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And even in cases where Giuliani has seemed to reveal damaging facts about his client — including his May acknowledgment that a $130,000 payment from Trump to his then-fixer Michael Cohen was reimbursement for hush money to pornography actress Stormy Daniels — some have seen a calculated effort to dump bad news in order to dampen its potential effect if disclosed by investigators or leaks.

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Trump and his allies have raised questions about Giuliani’s effectiveness before. They were revived over the weekend when Giuliani told NBC’s “Meet the Press” and The New York Times that Trump told him he may have spoken to his former lawyer Cohen about a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow as late as October or November 2016 — months later than Trump or Cohen had previously admitted. Giuliani also said that Trump may have spoken to Cohen before his former lawyer gave what he has since confessed was false testimony to Congress.

On Monday, Giuliani issued a statement saying his remarks were hypothetical. “My recent statements about discussions during the 2016 campaign between Michael Cohen and then-candidate Donald Trump about a potential Trump Moscow ‘project’ were hypothetical and not based on conversations I had with the president,” Giuliani said.

The flap came just days after Giuliani raised hackles by telling CNN he could not say that no members of Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia — a statement he was forced to clean up the following day.

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Trump attorney Jay Sekulow told POLITICO that Giuliani “continues to be an important part of the president’s legal team.”

From what I've read, Sekulow is on a step only slightly higher than Giuliani when it comes to legal acuity and honesty.

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