Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday issued a stern warning to Republicans on 13 vote-fraud allegations en route to surrender in the Fulton County Georgia jail, saying their political enemies were “coming for them.”
“I feel very, very good about it because I feel like I’m defending the rights of all Americans, like I’ve done so many times as a US attorney,” Giuliani told reporters as he left New York City to attend to travel to Georgia.
He added a warning that “if the political winds change, they will come for you.”
“I don’t know how many times his innocence needs to be proven and how many times they need to be proven liars.” “Actually, we, enemies of our republic, are destroying rights, sacred rights,” Giuliani told reporters.
“Whether you dislike or dislike Donald Trump, I want to warn you.” They will come for you. When the political tide turns, as it always does, let’s pray that Republicans will be more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people who run this administration.”
Giuliani previously called his charges an “affront to American democracy” and called the Georgian officials who brought charges against him, Donald Trump and 17 others “true criminals.”
The indictment details a litany of phone calls made by Giuliani, the former president and others to various state officials with the aim of unlawfully appointing bogus voters in order to sway the electoral college in Trump’s favour.
The former Trump attorney alone faces 13 felonies, including allegations of molesting two Fulton County poll workers.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his New York home to face his indictment in Georgia
A crowd of Trump allies headed to the Georgia jail on Wednesday to surrender before the deadline
Trump and his 18 co-defendants were charged on Aug. 14 with attempting to overturn the 2020 Georgia presidential election, and were given until noon Friday to come forward for a booking.
A crowd of Trump allies headed to the Georgia jail on Wednesday to surrender before the deadline.
Georgia-based attorney Ray Smith and Trump campaign attorney Ken Chesebro were charged Wednesday. Former Georgia GOP chair and state legislature David Shafer and former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham also presented themselves.
John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who helped devise a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, was the former president’s second co-defendant to surrender to Georgia authorities Tuesday morning.
Eastman, 63, was held in the Fulton County Jail before being released by authorities.
He said his arrest was an attack on his First Amendment rights and that he was targeted simply for working vigorously to prosecute a case.
“It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country and implies the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances,” he said in a statement from his legal team.
“What is worrying is that lawyers are being targeted for their eagerness to stand up for their clients, something lawyers have an ethical duty to do and which has been attempted here through ‘formal challenge'[ing] “to verify the results of the election by lawful and reasonable means.”
Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused in a wide-ranging racketeering case of trying to change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Trump himself said a day earlier that he would present himself in jail on Thursday, before the Friday noon deadline.
Eastman, a former dean of law at Chapman University in Southern California, was a close advisor to Trump in the run-up to the January 6, 2021 attack by Trump supporters on the US Capitol to prevent the certification of Biden’s election victory.
He wrote a memo outlining steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to interfere with the voter count while presiding over the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to keep Trump in office.
He was named in a 98-page indictment against Georgia released last week.
The defendants were charged with 41 felonies related to efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the 2020 state election.
On Monday, court filings revealed the bond agreements reached between the defendants and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. They appeared individually on the court’s website.
A day later, the accused began to turn themselves in.
The first was Scott Hall, a bail bondsman in Atlanta. He is being charged in connection with an alleged violation of the electoral system in Coffee County, Georgia.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his New York home to face his indictment in Georgia
Schafer was the third known co-defendant to turn himself in after Republican election observer Scott Hall (left) was the first this week, followed by attorney John Eastman (right). Above are her mugshots from the Fulton County Jail
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According to the sheriff, most people arrested in Fulton County are being taken to the main jail on Rice Street, northwest of downtown, where detention conditions are being investigated
John Eastman (center), an attorney charged with former President Donald Trump, makes a statement to the media outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where he was being held Tuesday
Then came Eastman.
The indictment accuses him and others of promoting a plan with “alternative” voters that would certify Trump’s victory.
He will not make a formal pleading until he appears in court. Meanwhile, his legal team said the indictment “set forth political, but not criminal, activity.”
“Lawyers around the world should be sleepless at this latest ploy to criminalize their advocacy.” “It’s a legal cluster bomb that leaves lawyers with unexploded explosive devices forever,” his attorneys said.
Eastman was present at a Trump rally on Jan. 6, just before a violent mob stormed the US Capitol.
He gave a speech along with one of his co-defendants, Rudy Giuliani.
“We know there was fraud, traditional fraud,” he said.
“We know dead people voted, but because we witnessed it live in real time, we now know how the machines contributed to this scam.”
He then advanced the disproved idea that electronic voting machines were being used to ensure those who did not vote were counted as if they had voted for Joe Biden.
The case marks the fourth time since April that Trump, the front runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been indicted in a criminal trial.
He claims he did nothing wrong and has repeatedly described the case as an attempt to end his presidential campaign.