By Dave Goldiner and Chris Sommerfeldt

New York Daily News

I’m America’s mayor — not a Ukraine “hand grenade”!

Rudy Giuliani fired back at fired White House security honcho John Bolton Tuesday over reports that he fiercely denounced Giuliani as a “hand grenade” for his scheme to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.

Giuliani said he is “disappointed” with Bolton and repeated his claim that he was acting on Trump’s direct orders.

“It is all part of the evidence and suppression of evidence, involving Ukrainian collusion, and the origin of some of the false information against the president,” Giuliani said.

The bitter salvos between onetime allies came as Giuliani suffered punishing new political and legal blows in the fast-moving Ukraine scandal that has plunged President Trump’s White House into deep crisis.

Along with Bolton’s reported attacks, the ex-mayor was forced to defend himself against revelations that two jailed associates paid him an eye-popping $500,000 for consulting advice at the same time they were allegedly funneling illegal six-figure donations to Republicans from unnamed oligarchs.

And a new Wall Street Journal report said prosecutors have examined Giuliani’s bank records as they investigate his business ties to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were key players in the Ukraine scandal.

As if that wasn’t enough, Giuliani faces a deadline Tuesday to hand over documents demanded in a subpoena issued by the impeachment inquiry. He hasn’t said if he will comply.

The hawkish Bolton was ousted by Trump from his powerful White House in part over disagreements about the president’s kow-towing to authoritarian leaders of nations like Russia, Iran and North Korea.

Bolton also unsuccessfully tried to block Giuliani’s freelance shadow diplomacy in Ukraine that could lead to Trump’s removal from office.

He harshly referred to the scheme to smear Joe Biden as a “drug deal” carried out by Trump acolytes, Hill testified, according to the Times.

The White House is stonewalling the impeachment effort and has sought to block current and former officials from testifying. But Hill and others are defying those efforts in a possible sign that the dam of support for Trump and fear of retaliation by the White House is cracking.

Bolton may be called himself to testify about the Ukraine scandal and his acrimonious departure from the White House.

On the other scandal front, Giuliani asserted that the shocking payments were normal business transactions.

He claimed the cash was from legitimate sources, even though Parnas and Fruman, are accused of moving similar amounts of cash from Russian or Ukrainian oligarchs to GOP politicians and other pro-Trump organizations.

“I know beyond any doubt the source of the money is not any questionable source,” Giuliani told Reuters in an interview without elaborating.

So far, Trump has stood by Giuliani even as the impeachment inquiry gains steam by the day. But the president has offered hints that he is running out of patience with his chatty personal lawyer, such as when he told reporters that “you’ll have to ask Rudy” about his disgraced associates.