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Lloyd Green

Servants of the Damned review: Trump and the giant law firm he actually paid

Donald Trump at the Senate in 2017. His first White House counsel, Don McGahn, is second from right.
Donald Trump at the Senate in 2017. His first White House counsel, Don McGahn, is second from right. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/EPA

Donald Trump stiffed his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to the tune of $2.5m. He refused to grant him a pardon. The former New York City mayor is a target of prosecutors in Fulton county, Georgia. Then again, as David Enrich of the New York Times writes in his new book, by the time Trump entered politics his “reputation for shortchanging his lawyers (and banks and contractors and customers) was well known”. Giuliani can’t say he wasn’t warned.

In Servants of the Damned, Enrich also recounts how Trump once attempted to settle a bill for nearly $2m.

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