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The indispensable man: How Rudy Giuliani led Trump to the brink of impeachment

By Jim Dwyer, Jo Becker, Kenneth P. Vogel, Maggie Haberman and Sarah Maslin Nir
New York Times·
30 mins to read
The indispensable man: How Rudy Giuliani led Trump to the brink of impeachment
Rudy Giuliani didn't get the job he expected. But as unpaid personal counsel to the president and for-profit peddler of access and advice, he got the spotlight. Photo / Erin Schaff , New York Times

Not so long ago, it seemed to Rudy Giuliani that he would be presiding over a hefty part of the world.

Holding court a few nights after the 2016 election in a private cigar bar on Fifth Avenue, glass of Macallan at hand, Giuliani boasted to friends that President-elect Donald

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