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Martin Pengelly in Washington

‘I wouldn’t give him a nickel’: one-time Giuliani donors rule out legal aid

Rudy Giuliani outside the Fulton county jail in Atlanta last week. The former New York mayor faces 13 counts in Georgia.
Rudy Giuliani outside the Fulton county jail in Atlanta last week. The former New York mayor faces 13 counts in Georgia. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP

As he attempts to meet mounting legal fees incurred in large part through his work for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani will reportedly not get “a nickel” from one billionaire who backed his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination – or, apparently, much from many other previously big donors.

“I wouldn’t give him a nickel,” the investor Leon Cooperman told CNBC. “I’m very negative on Donald Trump. It’s an American tragedy. [Rudy] was ‘America’s mayor’. He did a great job. And like everybody else who gets involved with Trump, it turns to shit.”

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