Some longtime allies then went on Fox News and kept up the drumbeat. Rigged. Fraud. One of them was Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and Trump’s personal lawyer. Once the hero of the Big Apple after the 9/11 attacks, he was now a combative regular in Trump’s orbit who regularly smoked cigars. He told the president that he needed a better strategy. He offered to help. Trump stopped privately saying he lost the vote. And he gave Giuliani his blessing to start poking around.
