The Takeaway: Ah, politics, the "I'm rubber, you're glue" that actually matters.

Maybe Rudy Can Fail?

What Happened: President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani had the kind of week that was so bad it's hard to imagine it was all squeezed into seven days.

What Really Happened: Rudy Giuliani is, to be polite, at a very strange period in his career right now. Enough people think so that there was even a New York Times documentary about his evolution from hard-nosed NY prosecutor to … private attorney seemingly working for free for longtime friend, and President of the United States, Donald Trump, who appears to be at the center of an attempt to recruit foreign governments to meddle in US elections, and also maybe some campaign finance shenanigans too. What a long, strange trip it's been. It would be bad if this week brought any more unfortunate revelations about "America's Mayor," wouldn't it?

Yeah, none of that looks great for Rudy. Then, as all of that was shaking out, this happened.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rudolph Giuliani, a man who apparently has legal training, somehow.

This is all looking pretty bad, it’s true. Could it get any worse?

OK, sure; that Giuliani is apparently part of a counterintelligence probe into foreign influence on the 2016 election is certainly just adding fuel to the fire, but at least now all the shoes have certainly dropped. Right?

Yeah, sure, one of the two associates arrested last week while trying to flee the country is pinning it all on Giuliani, that's definitely no good, but now they can't get any worse…

This is beginning to get ridiculous.

Man, I just give up.