Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday rejected allegations that he helped the former US president annul Georgia’s 2020 election because he was politically motivated, before flying to Atlanta to surrender .
Trump, Giuliani and 17 other defendants have until Friday to turn themselves in after being charged with electoral subversion in the southern US state.
“I’m an adult. I can handle it. I’ve fought worse fights than this one,” Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, told reporters outside his New York home.
“It’s no coincidence that they sued all their lawyers. I’ve never heard of this before in the United States,” he said. “The justice system has been politicized and criminalized by politics,” he added.
Giuliani joked about the idea that Fulton County jail authorities would likely take a picture of him, and touted his own history as a New York mob prosecutor.
“I’m going to be photographed. Isn’t that good? A photo of the man who probably put the worst criminals of the 20th century in prison,” Giuliani said. “They will discredit themselves with a photo”, he emphasized.
Giuliani served as mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, after witnessing the September 11, 2001 attacks while in office, and served as legal counsel to Trump in recent years.
“I am the same Rudolph Giuliani who took down the mob and made New York the safest city in America,” he said.
Prosecutors in Georgia approached the election subversion case haphazardly, Giuliani said, predicting that the lawsuit would eventually become known as “a complete sham and a lie.”
“They’ve sued people in this case, I don’t even know who they are. They’re just normal people living normal lives. They’re going to bankrupt them. They’re not going to judge them,” he predicted. .
In addition to Giuliani and Trump, prosecutors in Georgia have charged former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several other Trump attorneys.
According to jail records, John Eastman, a former Trump campaign attorney, and Scott Hall, a bail bondsman, were admitted to the Fulton County Jail on Tuesday.
Two other defendants, attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Ray Smith, will have surrendered on Wednesday.
Trump is expected to turn himself in to the same Atlanta jail on Thursday, before the Friday afternoon deadline set by Georgian authorities.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, faces four criminal trials as he attempts to return to the White House.
Source: DN
