Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani issued a stern warning to Republicans while en route to surrender at the Fulton County Georgia prison Wednesday on 13 election fraud charges, saying their political enemies are ‘gonna come for you.’
‘I’m feeling very, very good about it because I feel like I am defending the rights of all Americans, as I did so many times as a United States attorney,’ Giuliani told reporters as he left his Upper East Side New York City house to head to Georgia.
He added a warning that when political winds shift, ‘they’re gonna come for you.’
‘I don’t know how many times he has to be proven innocent and they have to be proven to be liars. Actually, enemies of our republic, we are destroying rights, sacred rights,’ Giuliani told reporters.
‘Now, whether you dislike or like Donald Trump, let me give you a warning. They’re gonna come for you. When the political winds shift, as they always do, let us pray that Republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people in charge of this government.’
Giuliani previously branded his indictment ‘an affront to American democracy’ and called the Georgia officials who have brought charges against him, Donald Trump and 17 others the ‘real criminals.’
The indictment lists a litany of telephone calls made by Giuliani, the former president and others to various state officials for the purpose, it says, of unlawfully appointing fake electors to swing the Electoral College in Trump’s favor.
The former Trump lawyer alone is facing 13 felony counts including accusations of harassment of two Fulton County poll workers.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his NYC home to hand himself in for his Georgia Indictment
A flurry of Trump allies have headed to the Georgia prison Wednesday to turn themselves in before the deadline
Trump and his 18 co-defendants were charged on August 14 with attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, and were given a deadline of Friday at noon to hand themselves in for booking.
A flurry of Trump allies have headed to the Georgia prison Wednesday to turn themselves in before the deadline.
Georgia-based lawyer 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 chair Cathy Latham also turned themselves in.
John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped develop a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, on Tuesday morning became the second of the former president’s co-defendants to turn himself in to authorities in Georgia.
Eastman, 63, was booked at the Fulton County jail before being released by authorities.
He said his arrest was an attack on his First Amendment rights and that he had been targeted for simply being vigorous in pursuit of a case.
‘It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implicating the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances,’ he said in statement issued by his legal team.
‘As troubling, it targets attorneys for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients, something attorneys are ethically bound to provide and which was attempted here by ‘formally challeng[ing] the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means.”
Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused in a sprawling racketeering case of trying to upend the result of the 2020 election.
Trump himself said a day earlier that he will present himself to the jailhouse on Thursday, before the Friday noon deadline.
Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University law school in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters intent on halting the certification of Biden’s electoral victory.
He wrote a memo laying out steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to interfere in the counting of electoral votes while presiding over Congress’ joint session on Jan. 6 in order to keep Trump in office.
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He was named in a 98-page Georgia indictment published last week.
The defendants were charged with 41 criminal counts in connection with efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the state’s 2020 election.
On Monday, court filings revealed the bond agreements reached by defendants and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. They dropped one by one on the court’s website.
A day later the defendants began handing themselves in.
The first was Scott Hall, a bail bondsman in Atlanta. He is charged in connection with an alleged voting systems breach in Coffee County, Georgia.
Rudy Giuliani leaves his NYC home to hand himself in for his Georgia Indictment
Schafer was the third known co-defendant to turn himself in after Republican poll watcher Scott Hall (left) became the first this week, followed by attorney John Eastman (right). Above are their mugshots from Fulton County jail
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The sheriff’s department says most people arrested in Fulton County are taken to the main jail on Rice Street, to the northwest of the city center, where conditions are being investigated
John Eastman, center, an attorney indicted with former President Donald Trump, makes a statement to media outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where he was booked on Tuesday
Then came Eastman.
The indictment accuses him and others of pushing a scheme involving ‘alternate’ electors that would certify that Trump won.
He will not give a formal plea until he appears in court. In the meantime, his legal team said the indictment ‘sets out activity that is political, but not criminal.’
‘Lawyers everywhere should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy. This is a legal cluster-bomb that leaves unexploded ordinance for lawyers to navigate in perpetuity,’ his attorneys said.
Eastman was present at a Trump rally on Jan. 6 just before a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
He delivered a speech alongside one of his co-defendants Rudy Giuliani.
‘We know there was fraud, traditional fraud that occurred,’ he said.
‘We know that dead people voted, but we now know because we caught it live in real time, how the machines contributed to that fraud.’
He then put forth a debunked idea that electronic voting machines were used to ensure that people who did not vote were tallied as if they voted for Joe Biden.
The case is the fourth time Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been indicted in a criminal case since April.
He maintains has done nothing wrong and repeatedly characterized the case as an effort to end his presidential campaign.
