Is somebody going to pull the plug or not?

I mean there’s got to be some sort of limit. Right? Right???

The scandal unfolding this week in Washington can be traced back to November, when a private investigator approached Rudy Giuliani claiming to have information about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, according to an account provided by the former New York mayor.

Giuliani declined to give POLITICO the name of the investigator but said he was an American citizen, the head of “a very, very large investigative agency,” and a former colleague of Giuliani’s at the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. Giuliani said the investigator approached him on behalf of a client who wanted to relay damning allegations he had heard.

Giuliani, a personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, also declined to name the investigator’s client, but said he was also a U.S. citizen, and one he had met before. “I actually know the guy vaguely from years ago,” Giuliani said.

The approach, he said, sent Giuliani on a months-long hunt for information from Ukraine that would be damaging to the enemies of his client. That effort culminated on Thursday with the release of a whistleblower’s complaint about those efforts, followed by a furious attempt to discredit the complaint.

“I’m the real whistleblower,” declared Giuliani, who claimed to possess more damaging information and insisted that he, too, should be entitled to whistleblower protections. “If I get killed now,” he warned, “You won’t get the rest of the story.” . . .

For his part, Giuliani rejects any focus on the story behind the allegations he was pushing, defending the means by which he has gone about investigating his client’s adversaries. “The process is clean,” Giuliani said. But, he added, “Even if the process were dirty, and the facts were clean … we uncovered a crime of vast magnitude.”

. . . Giuliani said the real story was anti-Trump election interference and pointed the finger at AntAC’s funder. “Everybody,” he said, “thinks Soros is at the bottom of it.”

Asked on Wednesday about Giuliani’s project, a spokeswoman for Soros’ philanthropy, the Open Society Foundation, responded with laughter.

This is what happens when the president and his personal attorney become not just replacement-level Fox News junkies, but QAnon true believers.

Fasten your seatbelts.

. . . ChrisS in comments lays out what really does seem the most likely explanation at this point for this madness:

Rudy then relayed this to Trump, who loved that there was a way to stick it to the democrats and blame them for the Russia thing, he then asked Barr to investigate (which Barr suddenly couldn’t remember this during Sen. Harris’s cross examination), who declined because Barr is a lot of things, but he’s not as stupid as Trump and Rudy. Trump sent Rudy to Ukraine to get them to investigate and they declined as well just as Trump was getting ready to give them $250m in aid.