Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held within the back parking zone of landscaping company on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Rudy Giuliani, a former top lawyer for Donald Trump, met in recent weeks with federal prosecutors who’re investigating the ex-president for his efforts to reverse his loss within the 2020 election, NBC News confirmed Wednesday.
Giuliani led the legal fight by Trump’s campaign to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory within the election in the course of the weeks before it was confirmed by a joint session of Congress that began meeting on Jan. 6, 2021.
The news of Giuliani’s voluntary interview with special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors got here as investigators prepared to fulfill Wednesday in Atlanta with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as a part of that criminal probe.
Trump, in an early January 2021 phone call, unsuccessfully pressured Raffensperger to “find” him enough votes in Georgia to overturn Biden’s victory in that state. Georgia was one in all several states that gave Biden his margin of victory within the Electoral College, the body that truly selects American presidents after the favored vote.
The decision to Raffensperger occurred days before the joint session of Congress convened to certify the Electoral College results. The joint session was interrupted for hours by a mob of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani, said the previous Latest York mayor met with Smith’s prosecutors along along with his own attorney Robert Costello in recent weeks, NBC News reported.
“The looks was entirely voluntary and conducted in knowledgeable manner,” Goodman said.
CNN first reported that Giuliani had met with Smith’s investigators.
Costello last August told CNBC that Giuliani had been named a goal of a separate criminal probe by a Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating Trump for his try to undo his loss in 2020 within the state. The prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is predicted to announce coming weeks whether she is filing charges against Trump and his allies within the election-reversal effort.
Giuliani in December 2020 spoke to Georgia lawmakers and made a series of claims about purported election fraud as he urged them to appoint a slate of pro-Trump electors to the Electoral College.
Earlier this month, Smith obtained a Florida federal court indictment against Trump charging him with dozens of criminal counts related to his retention of classified records after he left the White House, and his alleged efforts with aide Walt Nauta to cover them from government officials.
Trump, who’s in search of the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has pleaded not guilty in that case, where he’s accused of keeping a whole bunch of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
