Rudy Giuliani’s daughter supports Harris, mourns ‘loss of my father to Trump’ | Rudy Giuliani

Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, has won the support of Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, who said: “I mourn the loss of my father to (Donald) Trump. I can’t bear to lose our country to him too.”

Caroline Rose Giuliani wrote in Vanity Fair where she lamented how her father, once the former president’s personal lawyer and trusted adviser, had fallen into the “destructive trail” and chaos of the Trump administration and its aftermath.

“I am unfortunately well placed to remind Americans how disastrous being associated with Trump can be, even for those who are convinced he is on their side,” wrote Giuliani, a California resident resident filmmaker and activist who has frequently criticized her father’s political positions.

“I constantly wonder how America is here again, even as I consider the possibility of re-electing Donald Trump after all the damage he has done both in office and since. There are unmistakable reminders of Trump’s destructive path all around us, and it broke my heart to watch my father become one of them.”

Rudy Giuliani, who became a wildly popular mayor of New York after leading the city through the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, paid a heavy price for spreading Trump’s lies that his 2020 election defeat was fraudulent.

Last week, he was permanently disbarred from practicing law in Washington DC for leading the legal effort to overturn Joe Biden’s victory and attempted to file for bankruptcy to avoid paying $148.1 million in damages to avoid two election workers in Georgia who he defamed.

“Watching my father’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his death appears to be linked to a dark force that threatens to engulf America once again,” wrote Caroline Giuliani, referring to Trump’s third presidential election as the Republican nominee.

“We do not want to discount individual responsibility in the slightest, but it would be naive of us to ignore the fact that many of those closest to Trump have entered a catastrophic downward spiral. If we let Trump take the reins again this fall, our country will be no exception.”

She described her relationship with her father as “cartoonishly complicated.”

“Despite his faults, I love him. I have seen him experience surreal highs and now unimaginable lows. The last thing I want to do is hurt him, especially when he’s already down,” she wrote. “Besides, we never know how much time we have left with our parents. All in all, this makes this the most difficult piece I have ever written. But this moment and this choice are so much bigger than any of us.”

She cited Harris’ positions on reproductive rights as well as the economy and foreign and environmental policy as reasons for her support.

“We need experienced, sensible and fundamentally decent leaders who will fight for us instead of against us, who will protect our democracy instead of destroying it,” she wrote.

“As a newly engaged 35-year-old who is more excited than afraid of the possibility of becoming a parent myself, I have to work for a future that is worth welcoming children into.”

She also recalled begging her father to reconsider after learning he was considering becoming Trump’s lawyer at a New York cigar bar.

“Surrounded by thick smoke and powerful men, I cried for a few minutes and then spent the next three hours pleading vehemently with my father not to go down this morally dangerous path,” she wrote.

She said that as his daughter, she could see flaws in Rudy Giuliani “that people blinded by his celebrity couldn’t see.”

She wrote, “The deeper my father gets stuck in the quicksand of his problems, the more fleeting our opportunities to connect as father and daughter become.”

“After months of feeling the kind of grief that comes with the death of a loved one, I realized that I was grieving the loss of my father to Trump. I can’t bear to lose our country to him too.”