Giuliani pressured to delay election verification
Rudy Giuliani filedemergency motion for court-ordered adjournment Tuesday,Georgia Grand Jury before investigating the conduct of former President Donald Trumpafter losing the 2020 election.
Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and Trump's personal attorney, was a close aide to the then president who tried to overturn elections in Georgia and other states.
In seeking delays, Giuliani cited two doctors who said he had undergone an invasive procedure and was not allowed to travel by air. Attorney Robert Costello told CBS News in July that Giuliani was briefly hospitalized for heart surgery earlier this summer and received two stents. }
Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis said in Monday's filing that Giuliani had purchased air tickets to Rome, Switzerland, and Zurich in late July. was confirmed by her office. Willis' office also provided evidence of a tweet that allegedly had Giuliani on Aug. 1 in New Hampshire.
Giuliani was ordered to appear before a special grand jury after failing to attend a hearing in New York City on July 13. He would have had the opportunity to challenge his subpoena.
Instead, at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Judge Robert McBurney, who presides over the special grand jury, will hear Giuliani's emergency petition.
Willis said in early July that Giuliani was a key witness in the investigation.. Certificates were also issued to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other Trump supporters.
Giuliani has been named as a key witness as he attended a Georgia Senate hearing in December 2020. Giuliani, who served as Trump's personal attorney, filed a voter fraud allegation that was quickly debunked, but he kept repeating it. Publicly, the district attorney said.
"Witness attendance and testimony at hearings is part of the Trump campaign's coordinated multi-state plan to influence the outcome of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere. There is evidence to show that it was a department," he read in the D.A. filing.
President Biden narrowly won his 2020 victory in Georgia, where Republican election officials have repeatedly said widespread voter fraud allegations are unfounded, and under oath. have testified in
President Trump-to-Trump phone calls show that President Trump asked Brad his Secretary of State Raffensperger and other officials to give him enough votes to win. Pressured to "find". Raffensperger, obtained by CBS News last year. During a conference call on January 2, 2021, the President told his Raffensperger:
The Special Grand Jury was strengthened in January at the request of District Attorney Willis . The investigation included a phone call between Raffensperger and Trump who was called to testify before a grand jury in June. increase. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp also filed an affidavit with the grand jury.
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