The daughter of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote about the sadness her father’s troubles have caused her in a Vanity Fair essay begging Americans not to put their trust in Donald Trump.
“As Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, I’m unfortunately well-suited to remind Americans of just how calamitous being associated with Trump can be, even for those who are convinced he’s on their side,” Caroline Rose Giuliani wrote.
“Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America.”
Rudy Giuliani, 80, has found himself mired in debt and ridicule over his failed efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election in which he was defeated handily by President Biden. The former mayor, who served as Trump’s personal attorney, is $150 million in debt due largely to a defamation suit filed by two Georgia poll workers he besmirched with false claims of misconduct.
He lost his license to practice law in New York in July. Rudy Giuliani is appealing that decision. He was also disbarred in Washington, D.C. last week for making election fraud claims backed by “no evidence,” according to a legal ruling there. The former prosecutor faces criminal charges in Arizona related to election interference.
Caroline Rose Giuliani writes that it isn’t her intention to hurt her father “when he’s already down” and laments the fact there’s no knowing how much longer he’ll be alive. Her essay recalls the day her dad told her he’d be representing Trump at a Fifth Avenue rooftop bar. She “ugly-cried” before spending several hours trying to change his mind.
As bad as she thought the idea was, the 35-year-old filmmaker “had no idea how much destruction my father would come to face due to his one-sided fealty to a con-man.”
Calling her Vanity Fair article the most difficult thing she’s ever written, the daughter of Rudy Giuliani’s second wife, Donna Hanover, said remaining silent with the possibility of another Trump presidency forced her to act.
“After months of feeling the type of sorrow that comes from the death of a loved one, it dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump,” she claimed. “I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”
A spokesman for the former mayor hasn’t responded to a request for comment.
Rudy Giuliani also has a son, Andrew Giuliani, who’s active in Republican party politics and has been supportive of Trump. Caroline Rose Giuliani calls her relationship with her dad “cartoonishly complicated,” but said she still loves him despite their political differences.