In a stunning development out of Washington this morning, it sounds as if Donald Trump is beginning to wonder if his decision to appoint sentient Blue Lives Matter meme Rudy Giuliani as the public face of his legal defense team was, to put it politely, a misguided one. Apparently, when the president asked Giuliani to bring the Mueller probe to a swift and tidy conclusion, Rudy's going on TV and volunteering the possibility that the president's fixers have arranged for additional unreported hush-money payments to former mistresses was not a component of the savvy public-relations strategy he envisioned.

From CNN:

The President was initially pleased with his new attorney's brashness, but that has steadily eroded as the parade of interviews has continued. Trump was irked by Giuliani's interview on ABC News Sunday, particularly the clip of Giuliani refusing to rule out him pleading the Fifth Amendment, which has since played on a near-constant loop on cable television.

In private, says the report, irritated administration officials have begun whispering about when Giuliani last practiced law and raising the possibility that he "might be losing his mental faculties," a phrasing that arguably presumes key facts not in evidence. The two men enjoy a close relationship, though, and have even begun excluding other lawyers from discussions about major decisions, including whether the president will sit for an interview with the special counsel's office. A Republican strategist suggested to CNN that if he were a member of the White House communications team, he would "get used to having my eyes open wide in horror and terror on a regular basis," a line that is really going to hurt Rudy's efforts to woo new clients once it appears at the top of his practice's Yelp reviews page.

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