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- An unnamed senior Trump campaign advisor privately torched Rudy Giuliani's post-election legal gambits.
- "It's all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership," the advisor wrote in an email.
- The message was part of special counsel Jack Smith's historic indictment of Donald Trump.
Special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of former President Donald Trump lays bare the extent that senior officials within Trump's orbit thought that Rudy Giuliani was increasingly going off the rails.
"I'll obviously hustle to help on all fronts, but it's tough to own any of this when it's all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership," an unnamed senior campaign advisor wrote in an email on December 8, 2020, according to the indictment.
The House January 6 committee unearthed many of the critical comments that began to bubble up both within Trump's campaign and the White House in response to an effort to overturn the 2020 election results. Eric Herschmann, a White House attorney, went viral for his comments to the committee about how he thought conservative legal advisor John Eastman was advancing nonsensical arguments.
Neither Giuliani nor Eastman is named in the most recent indictment, though Giuliani is likely one of the currently unindicted co-conspirators named repeatedly throughout it. Many of the episodes mentioned, including an unnamed Trump advisor calling the wrong senator on January 6, fit with previously revealed information about the former New York mayor's actions before, during, and after the Capitol riot.