Rudy Giuliani has resigned from his law firm, Greenberg and Traurig, to focus full time on his legal work for President Trump amid special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“In light of the pressing demands of the Mueller investigation, I believe it is in everyone’s best interest that I make it a permanent resignation. This way, my sole concentration can be on this critically important matter for our country,” Giuliani said in a statement Thursday.
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, joined Trump’s legal team last month and demanded the special counsel’s probe come to an end immediately.
He has since been on a media blitz to denounce the investigation. He told the Washington Examiner this week that Mueller’s team is “scrambling” as it nears its one-year anniversary after a series of court setbacks.
Richard Rosenbaum, who is the executive chairman of Giuliani’s former law firm, said Giuliani had first said he would be working for Trump in a “limited role, for a short period of time,” but since then, the work has become “all-consuming.”
Trump said last week he would “love to speak” with Mueller, so long as he is “treated fairly.”
Giulani told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that the legal team will decide whether or not to sit with Mueller’s team after the case against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort wraps up in Virginia.
