former testifies trumps subvert election

The former personal lawyer to Trump was ordered by a judge last month to appear as a witness before the special purpose grand jury but was recently informed that he is now a target of the fast-moving investigation, his lawyer disclosed on Monday. Giuliani also could have invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination. “The grand jury process is a secret process, and we’re going to respect that.”īefore the testimony, another Giuliani lawyer had indicated that Giuliani would refuse to answer questions about his conversations with Trump by claiming attorney-client privilege. “I can tell you that we were ordered to be here, we showed up, we did what we had to do,” Thomas told reporters outside the Fulton County Courthouse. The top prosecutor in Fulton County, which covers the city of Atlanta, has been investigating whether Trump and his associates illegally meddled in the election in Georgia.īill Thomas, a lawyer for Giuliani, declined to comment on Giuliani’s six-hour, closed-door testimony. Georgia is one of six battleground states that Trump lost to Democratic challenger Joe Biden and then falsely claimed he had won, filing legal challenges and pressing local officials to set aside official results. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani testified on Wednesday before a special grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the state.

Former testifies trumps subvert election