Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Fulton County Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
by Kate Brumback and Larry Neumeister | Associated Press
Atlanta - Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday that he had "satisfied his obligation" after having faced interrogation hours on Wednesday before a great special jury in Atlanta as a target of an investigation into the attempts of the former President Donald Trump and others to cancel his choice of defeat in 2020 in Georgia.
In an interview with Associated Press, Giuliani said that the District Prosecutor of Fulton County, Fani Willis, had ended his appearance by saying that he had "satisfied his obligation under the quote".
"So I was very happy to have satisfied my obligation," he said.
Speaking on his return to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Giuliani did not provide additional details on his appearance or testimony, including the type of questions they asked him. He was pushed by the terminal in a wheelchair with his lawyer, Bob Costello.
The lawyers ofGiuliani tried to delay their appearance in front of the great special jury, saying that they could not fly due to the STENT du Coeur surgery in early July. Wednesday, Giuliani said that "my plane trip was fine", and said it was the first of the procedure.
Costello said the session, which lasted 9 a.m. 3 pm with half an hour of lunch, “It was very good. No dispute. "Costello did not immediately address Giuliani answered the questions or refused.
"They were all a woman or a gentleman. Professional, "he wrote in an SMS, added that Willis came out to greet Giuliani and his lawyers at the end.
The investigation carried out by the Democratic prosecutor brought a more in -depth examination to the desperate and finally failed the efforts to cancel the electoral victory of Joe Biden in 2020. This is one of the many surveys on Trump's actions depending on while establishing the basics of another career at the White House in 2024.
Willis opened his investigation after the broadcast of a remarkable phone call on January 2, 2021 between Trump and the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger. In the call, Trump suggested that Raffensperger could "find" the exact number of votes that would be necessary to transform the electoral results into Georgia.
Trump denied having acted badly. He described the call as "perfect".
Willis last month made requests to force the seven partners and advisers of Trump. He also said that he was planning to call Trump to testify, and the former president hired a legal team in Atlanta who includes an exceptional criminal defense lawyer.
The other Trump allies extended in the survey include the American senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. His lawyers presented a legal request on Wednesday asking a federal judge to place the special appearance of the Graham jury scheduled for August 23 while appealing an order which forces him to testify.
Prosecutors want to question Graham about the phone calls that say he has reflected and his staff in the weeks following the vote.
The lawyers ofGraham, including the former lawyer of Trump in the White House, Don McGahn, fight the quote to appear before the Federal Court. They argue that Graham's position in Congress protects him from having to appear before the Grand Jury. A federal judge rejected this notion and ordered the senator to testify. Graham said he was planning to appeal.
Also on Wednesday, the lawyers for republican governor Brian Kemp asked the judge to supervise the special jury to cancel a quote to testify on Thursday. Kemp had to sit for a voluntary interview recorded on video with the District Prosecutor's Office on July 25, but Willis's team canceled this and published a summons after Kemp's lawyers asked questions about the Interview interview, said Kemp's request.
. The lawyers ofKEMP accused the Willis team "delay and artificial deadlines" to provoke "the governor's interaction with the investigation to reach a crescendo in the middle of an electoral cycle". They say that it was issued "for political reasons, instead of investigating".
Kemp faces a revenge match with Democrat Stacey Abrams in the November general elections.
The lawyers ofKemp maintain that "sovereign immunity" protects a governor from having to testify to their official functions and also cited the executive privileges and privileges of lawyers. If the judge does not cancel the quote, they said that the judge should establish directives on what may be requested.
TheWillis Office refused to comment, but Willis was direct in a letter of July to Kempo Brian Mcevoy who presented to the court: "He describes her several times as a politically motivated investigation, does not do so. In fact, you repeat it so many times, show that you have become very comfortable being dishonest. »
By looking for the testimony of Giuliani, Willis said that he was Trump's personal lawyer and the main lawyer for his 2020 campaign.
Recalled in a petition how Giuliani and others appeared at a meeting of the State Senatorial Committee at the end of 2020 and presented a video that Giuliani declared that he was showing the electoral workers who produced "suitcases" of illegal tickets from unknown sources, outside the vision of the observers of electoral surveys. Fraud requests were discredited by Georgia electoral officials within 24 hours. However, Giuliani continued to make declarations to the public and, in subsequent legislative hearings, which demand widespread electoral fraud using discredited video, Willis said in his presentation.
Two of the electoral employees seen in the video, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, said they faced implacable online harassment and in person after being shown during the legislative hearing on December 3 in which it appeared Giuliani. In another audience a week later, Giuliani said the images showed that women "surreptitiously made USB ports as if they were heroin or cocaine roads". A piece of caramel actually passed.
Willis also wrote in a request that requested the testimony of lawyer Kenneth Chesebro who worked with Giuliani to coordinate and carry out a plan for the Republicans of Georgia to serve as false voters. These 16 people signed a certificate wrongly declaring that Trump had won the 2020 presidential elections and declared to the "duly elected and qualified" voters despite the fact that Biden won the state and a list of voters Democrats have been certified. neumeister reported in New York. Associated Press Jill Colvin Writers in New York and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report. Associated articles
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