Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani issued a stern warning to Republicans on Wednesday as they made their way to surrender at Fulton County Georgia jail on thirteen counts of voter fraud, saying their political enemies are “coming after you.” .
“I feel very, very good about it because I feel like I’m defending the rights of all Americans, as I have done so many times as a lawyer in the United States,” Giuliani told reporters as he left New York City to go to Georgia to go. .
He added a warning that when the political wind turns, “they will come for you.”
“I don’t know how many times it must be proven that he is innocent and that they are liars. Actually, enemies of our republic, we are destroying rights, sacred rights,” Giuliani told reporters.
“Whether you hate Donald Trump or like him, let me give you a warning. They’re coming to get you. When the political winds turn, as they always do, let’s pray that the Republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people who are in charge of this administration.”
Giuliani previously called his indictment “an affront to American democracy” and called the Georgian officials who brought charges against him, Donald Trump and 17 others the “true criminals.”
The indictment details a litany of phone calls Giuliani, the former president and others made to various state officials for the purpose, it says, of illegally appointing false voters to sway the Electoral College in Trump’s favor.
The former Trump attorney alone faces 13 felony charges, including harassment charges against two pollsters in Fulton County.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his New York home to turn himself in for his Georgia indictment
A stream of Trump allies headed to jail in Georgia on Wednesday to turn themselves in before the deadline
Trump and his 18 co-defendants were charged on Aug. 14 with trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, and were given noon Friday to sign themselves up for booking.
A stream of Trump allies headed to jail in Georgia on Wednesday to turn themselves in before the deadline.
Georgia-based attorney Ray Smith and Trump campaign attorney Ken Chesebro were booked Wednesday. Former Georgia GOP chairman and state legislator David Shafer and former Coffee County GOP chairman Cathy Latham have also turned themselves in.
John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who helped develop a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, became the former president’s second co-defendant to turn himself in to Georgia authorities Tuesday morning.
Eastman, 63, was booked 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 because he was vigorously pursuing a case.
“It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implying the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for reinstatement of complaints,” he said in a statement from his legal team.
“The disturbing thing is that it appeals to attorneys for their diligent advocacy on behalf of their clients, something that attorneys are ethically required to provide, and attempted here by ‘formally challenging the outcome of the election by lawful and appropriate means.’
Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused in a massive racketeering case of trying to interfere with the results of the 2020 election.
Trump himself said a day earlier that he will report to jail on Thursday, before the Friday afternoon deadline.
Eastman, a former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump leading up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to block the certification of Biden’s election victory.
He wrote a memo outlining steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to interfere with the electoral vote count while presiding over the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to keep Trump in power.
He was named in a 98-page indictment against Georgia published last week.
The defendants were charged with 41 felony charges in connection with attempts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.
On Monday, court documents revealed the bond agreements made between the defendants and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. One by one, they were posted on the court’s website.
A day later, the suspects 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 voting system in Coffee County, Georgia.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his New York home to turn himself in for his Georgia indictment
Schafer was the third known co-defendant to turn himself in, after Republican pollster Scott Hall (left) became the first this week, followed by attorney John Eastman (right). Above are their police photos from the Fulton County Jail
Critics have used AI-generated or photoshopped images of a Trump mug shot on their protest posters, but may now have a real image to replace after Thursday’s surrender
The sheriff’s department says most people arrested in Fulton County are being taken to the main jail on Rice Street, northwest of downtown, where conditions are being investigated
John Eastman, center, an attorney indicted for former President Donald Trump, makes a statement to the media outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta where he was arrested Tuesday
Then came Eastman.
The indictment accuses him and others of pushing a scheme involving “alternative” voters that would confirm Trump won.
He will not make a formal plea until he appears in court. Meanwhile, his legal team said the indictment “describes activities that are political, but not criminal.”
Lawyers around the world should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy. This is a legal cluster bomb that leaves unexploded ordinances for lawyers to find their way forever,” his lawyers said.
Eastman attended a Trump rally on January 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 has been fraud, traditional fraud,” he said.
“We know that dead people voted, but because we saw it live, we now know how the machines contributed to that fraud.”
He then advanced the debunked idea that electronic voting machines were used to ensure that people who did not vote were counted as if they were voting for Joe Biden.
The case is the fourth time since April that Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been charged in a criminal case.
He claims he did nothing wrong and has repeatedly characterized the case as an attempt to end his presidential campaign.
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