2023-08-23 22:09:28
A former lawyer for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, called Wednesday in Georgia an “attack on the Constitution” his indictment by the authorities of this state in the south-east of the country for his attempts to reverse the result of the election of 2020.
“This indictment is a travesty” of justice, said Rudy Giuliani on his release from Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, the state capital, where he officially gave himself up before leaving on bail.
“This is an attack not only on me and on President Trump, but on the American people.“, he told the dozens of journalists who jostled to question him in the scorching heat, in a tangle of microphones and cables.
The county attorney”Fani Willis will go down in American history as the one who perpetrated one of the worst attacks on the American Constitution“, he added.
The defense of the former American president and several defendants maintains that the proceedings against them amount to “criminalizing” freedom of expression in electoral disputes.
A grand jury (panel of citizens with investigative powers) appointed by the prosecutor on August 14 indicted Donald Trump and 18 others for their alleged wrongful attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election won in this key state by current Democratic President Joe Biden.
They are prosecuted under a law on organized crime which provides for sentences of five to twenty years in prison.
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