2023-08-23 14:46:35
(Atlanta) Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump now indicted, said he would surrender to authorities on Wednesday in Atlanta in the case of the attempt to reverse the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia, a day before the former president.
Posted at 10:46 a.m.
The 19 co-defendants in this criminal case have until Friday noon to make themselves available to local authorities in an Atlanta prison. Since the beginning of the week, the American press has been following the arrival of almost every defendant, pending that of Trump on Thursday.
“I’m on my way to Georgia and I feel great,” Giuliani told CNN as he left his New York home.
“I’m a big boy, I can resist that. I fought much worse fights than that, ”added the former federal prosecutor and former mayor of this city, relativizing the importance of this meeting.
He, Donald Trump and 17 others are charged by the Fulton County District Attorney, where Georgia’s capital Atlanta is located, for their alleged wrongful attempts to reverse the state’s 2020 election result. .
They are prosecuted under a law on organized crime which provides for sentences of five to twenty years in prison.
On Wednesday morning, six had already gone to the Fulton County Jail to officially report themselves, have their fingerprints taken and pose for a mugshot, or mugshot, before being released on bail. bail.
“I’m going to have my picture taken. It’s not great ? A “mugshot” for the man who probably placed the worst criminals of the 20th century in prison”, ironically launched Rudy Giuliani, known for his anti-mafia fight in New York. “They’re going to dishonor themselves by mugshotting me.”
“I don’t know how many times Donald Trump will have to prove that he is innocent,” he added of his former client, charged in a total of four criminal cases.
Trump, a candidate for the White House and big favorite in the Republican primaries whose debate he snubbed on Wednesday evening, said he would go to Atlanta on Thursday.
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