It's his nature

I've posted many times over the past few years about the Tale of the Scorpion and the Frog (or Turtle). Some of Trump's former colleagues/friends/employees/sycophants should really take note.

Donald Trump has a superpower: He gets people to believe he gives a crap about them and that if they work hard for his interests and exhibit loyalty, he will do the same for them in return.

And—this is key—Trump gets them to ignore the legion of broken, unpaid, and abandoned former contractors, employees, and allies he’s consistently left behind. Somehow, he convinces the next suckers that they’re different.

But Trump will never change, and he has now stabbed two more of his closest allies in the back.

The winners of the "play-stupid-games" trophy this time are former Trump attorney and total whackjob, Jenna Ellis, and the even more deserving, Rudy Giuliani, who squandered whatever goodwill he ever had by backing Trump's coup attempt. Her sin against Trump was backing Ron DeSantis for the Republican nomination. His sin in Trump's eyes is unknown, but it's probably because everyone hates Giuliani and he's such a dipshit even Trump got the message.

The schadenfreude is rich here.

So how are they being backstabbed? They're both part of the 19 coup plotters indicted in Georgia for trying to invalidate the votes of millions of Georgians. And since they've spent all their money on nonsense conspiracy bullshit over the past few years, they're both in desperate need of money for their criminal defense. As they're in trouble for following Trump, and he's supposed to be a billionaire (Spoiler alert: He isn't), they thought he would pay their legal fees.

And that's when the scorpion stung them. 

Trump won't pay squat. Giuliani even went to Mar a Lago to beg face to face, leaving more humiliated than he arrived. He and Ellis have been reduced to begging stupid conservatives for money.

Here's the best part. If Ellis and Giuliani don't have enough money to pay lawyers to keep them out of prison, they may have no choice but to do what lots of others have already done in their place and flip -- testify to the prosecutors in order for a reduced or no sentence.

Trump, by being cheap AND a huge asshole, is actually likely to make the case against him even more damning.

You just love to see it.