As November went on, no judge was buying it and, increasingly, establishment lawyers were dropping out of cases rather than represent the rapidly tarnishing Trump brand. On November 18, Giuliani had to go to court in Pennsylvania himself to argue a motion, his first time in a federal courtroom in twenty-eight years—and it showed. He seemed befuddled. He admitted that for all his public cries of fraud, none was actually alleged in the legal filings. “This is not a fraud case,” he said. When the judge asked what legal standard of scrutiny should be applied to the government’s action, Giuliani
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