Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump during challenges to the 2020 election results, exits U.S. District Court after attending a hearing in a defamation suit related to the 2020 election results that has been brought against Giuliani by two Georgia election workers, at the federal courthouse in Washington, U.S., May 19, 2023.
Leah Millis | Reuters
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not be getting help with his legal bills from many of the big-money donors who financed his 2008 campaign for president, according to people familiar with the matter.
Giuliani was beloved by several business titans when he was mayor of New York City, who supported his 2008 presidential campaign that raised more than $60 million, according to those familiar with the matter and data from the nonpartisan OpenSecrets.
Yet, many of the donors who backed the former mayor in 2008 are opting not to help him pay for his growing legal bills as he’s defended his longtime friend former President Donald Trump, and faced charges of his own in Georgia for allegedly trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election, these people said.
Some people declined to be named in this story in order to speak freely about private deliberations.
Giuliani’s attorneys said in a recent court filing that the longtime Trump ally is having trouble paying his legal fees, and financial lifelines are running low for the man once known as “America’s mayor.”
Backers walk away
Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman, who donated $2,300 to Giuliani’s 2008 campaign for president, according to Federal Election Commission records, told CNBC he has no plans to assist the former mayor.
“I wouldn’t give him a nickel,” Cooperman said in a recent phone interview. “I’m very negative on Donald Trump. It’s an American tragedy. He was ‘America’s mayor.’ He did a great job. And like everybody else who gets involved with Trump, it turns to s—.”
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