Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is charged with former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) for attempting to rig the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, was delivered this Wednesday to the authorities of that state.
Before turning themselves in, Giuliani’s lawyers held a meeting at the office of Fulton, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to negotiate bail terms.
After that meeting, Giuliani went to fulton county jail so that his fingerprints are taken, the photographs are taken for the judicial file and he pays the bail of 150,000 dollars that his lawyers have agreed with the Prosecutor’s Office.
Under that arrangement, similar to those that other defendants have arrived in this caseTrump’s former personal lawyer has agreed to follow a series of rules, such as not talking about the case with the other defendants or with witnesses, unless it is through the lawyers.
The arrival of Guliani, 79, in Georgia woke up a great media expectation. She arrived at the Atlanta airport on a private plane and the landing was broadcast live on CNN.
Previously, when leaving the apartment in which he lives in New York, Giuliani spoke briefly with the press and reiterated that both he and Trump are innocentwhile asserting without evidence that American “enemies of the republic” are trying to destroy the rights of all.
Giuliani’s handover to Georgia authorities comes after two more of the 19 defendants also reported to the Fulton jail this week. Trump plans to do it tomorrow.
accused of conspiracy
All the defendants are accused of being part of a conspiracy to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia resorting to different methods, from pressure to officials in charge of certifying the results to attempts to steal electoral data in a rural county of the state.
Specifically, Giuliani is accused of being part of a plan for 16 Georgia Republicans to serve as the state’s picks for the US president in the Electoral College.
In the United States, the president is not selected by popular vote, but with an indirect system, so that when citizens go to the polls they are actually choosing the delegates of the Electoral College, who represent them in a final vote.
According to the accusation, Giuliani allegedly tried to get those 16 Republicans to serve as Georgia’s electorate delegates in the Electoral College.in an attempt to reverse the election in favor of Trump, despite the fact that Democrat Joe Biden had won in that state by a narrow margin.
Giuliani was one of the most visible faces in Trump’s attempts to annul the election results in all the country.
One of the moments that best portrays that role was the press conference he gave denouncing an alleged fraud four days after the elections, in which it was possible to see how streaks of brown sweat fell down his forehead, something that the public He attributed it to some type of product that the former mayor had used to try to cover his gray hair.
That press conference took place on the outskirts of Philadelphia, near a crematorium and a sex shop, and in front of a small landscaping business called Four Seasons Total Landscaping, which his team mistook for the luxury Four Seasons hotel chain. .
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Giuliani’s public image has suffered a spectacular decline in recent years: About two decades ago he was known by the honorary title of “Mayor of the Year” for having stoically guided New York after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Giuliani, who was mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, was awarded the title of Honorary Knight of Her Majesty by Queen Elizabeth II of England and was named Time magazine’s person of the year in 2001.