Washington (AP) – According to media reports, former US President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudolh Giuiliani, is the target of criminal investigations in connection with the 2020 election. The “New York Times” and the broadcaster CNN reported that Giuliani’s lawyers were one related notice regarding investigations in the US state of Georgia.
The investigation there is about a possible influence on the 2020 presidential election by Trump and his camp. Prosecutor Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, launched an investigation last year. The background is a phone call between Trump and Georgia’s chief election supervisor, Brad Raffensperger. Trump had asked Raffensperger in the conversation to “find” the missing votes in order to overturn the narrow election victory of his opponent Joe Biden in the state. Several Trump allies have been asked to testify before a jury that has now been set up. In July, Willis did not rule out summoning ex-President Trump on NBC.
The New York Times reported that Giuliani was scheduled to testify before a jury in Georgia’s capital, Atlanta, in Fulton County, on Wednesday. According to the report, Giuliani’s lawyer made it clear that his client would invoke attorney-client privilege if he was asked questions about his talks with Trump. “If these people think he’s going to talk about talks between him and President Trump, they’re delusional.”
Georgia was one of the states that won the November 2020 presidential election in favor of Democrat Biden. To this day, Republican Trump still maintains the long-debunked claim that he was deprived of victory through fraud. For weeks, he and his allies tried to use questionable methods to subsequently overturn Biden’s election victory – Giuliani was one of the central figures. Trump’s camp also failed with dozens of lawsuits against the election results.
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