Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month after he was ordered to pay $148m to Georgia election workers he defamed

Donald Trumpā€™s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has listed a claim against the one-term president over unpaid legal fees in a new bankruptcy filing.

The ex-New York City mayor includes a ā€œpossible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J Trump.ā€ in the 26 January filing, which states that the amount is ā€œundetermined.ā€

Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month, days after a federal judge ordered him to ā€œimmediatelyā€ pay more than $148m to a pair of Georgia election workers a jury determined he defamed.

Mr Giuliani represented Mr Trump in a string of unsuccessful lawsuits contesting the results of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden.

Mr Trumpā€™s legal fees owed to Mr Giuliani have previously been reported. The New York Times wrote in August 2023 that ā€œMr Trump has never explicitly told Mr Giuliani why he is effectively stiffing him, but the former president has pointed out that he lost the cases related to the election.ā€

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    9 months ago

    How was this guy a mayor?
    Trump has a decades long history of not paying his debts. I assumed all his lawyers would insist on payment in full first.

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        9 months ago

        He was mayor during 9/11, not because of it.

        That aside, youā€™re right about him coasting off 9/11 for quite a while. His failed Presidential bid was basically him spamming "9/11ā€ from start, to finish.

        He had the same problem as Meatball Ron: the more the GOP base voters heard him and saw him, the more they were repulsed by him.

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          the more the GOP base voters heard him and saw him, the more they were repulsed by him.

          I donā€™t think that makes any sense.