Robert F. Giuliani

“ There's a discussion on that same email chain, exhibit 22, between you and Mr. Rosen about Brad Johnson and his relationship with Mr. Giuliani. Tell us a little bit more about the fact that Mr. Johnson was involved and his relationship with Giuliani bore upon your evaluation of the credibility of the YouTube video.
A I don't think it bore upon it because I clearly watched the YouTube video and had my response before I got that information about Mr. Johnson being associated with Mr. Giuliani. ”

“ ET) Tweets (emphasis added) . ↑ @realDonaldTrump 12/16/18 (9:39 a.m. ET) Tweet. ↑ Jeanine Pirro Interview with President Trump, Fox News (Jan. 12, 2019) (emphasis added) . ↑ @realDonaldTrump 1/18/19 (10:02 a.m. ET) Tweet (emphasis added) . ↑ Statement by Lanny Davis, Cohen's personal counsel (Jan, 23, 2019) . ↑ @realDonaldTrump 1/24/19 (7:48 a.m. ET) Tweet. ↑ Meet the Press Interview with Rudy Giuliani, NBC (Jan. 20, 2019) . ↑ Mark Mazzetti et al., Moscow Skyscraper Talks Continued Through "the Day I Won," Trump Is Said to Acknowledge, New York Times (Jan. 20, 2019) . ”

“ On November 6th, Giuliani and his team met with the Trump Campaign's leadership at its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. [87]
"Team Normal" was not impressed. Stepien told the Select Committee the campaign team was concerned that Giuliani would be a distraction to them and to President Trump. [88] When Giuliani suggested traveling to Pennsylvania to assist in the campaign's efforts, the campaign team "didn't dissuade him from doing so." ”

“ On November 14th, President Trump announced on Twitter that Giuliani was now the head of his campaign's legal team. [106] "Team Normal" saw drastic changes to their roles on the newly-structured campaign team—some self-imposed—and many outside law firms that had signed up to support the campaign's legal efforts disengaged completely. ”

“ Associated Press (January 13, 2021) , available at https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-bidendonald-trump-capitol-siege-media-e79eb5164613d6718e9f4502eb471f27; Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense, “I CAN’T SAY THIS On National Television | Rudy Giuliani | Ep. 98,” Rumble, at 13:10 – 13:25, Dec. 30, 2020, available at https://rumble.com/vex72l-i-cant-say-this-onnational-television-rudy-giuliani-ep.-98.html. Right Side Broadcasting Network, “LIVE: Georgia House Hearing on Election Fraud, Brad Raffensperger to Participate 12/23/20,” YouTube, at 27:28, 43:02-43:28, Dec. ”

“ Giuliani replied: "aren't we all Republicans here? I mean, I would think you would listen a little more open to my suggestions, that we're all Republicans." [206] The pressure didn't stop with that call. On December 1st, Giuliani and Ellis got an audience with some of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Arizona, including Bowers, Senate President Karen Fann, Senate President Pro Tempore Vince Leach, House Majority Leader and SenatorElect Warren Petersen, Senate Majority Whip Sonny Borrelli, SenatorM ichelle Ugenti-Rita, and others. ”

“ The Ukraine Report observes, "Numerous U.S. officials, including Ambassadors Sondland, Volker, and Bolton, as well as Lt. Col. Vindman and others, were well aware of Mr. Giuliani's efforts to push Ukraine to pursue these political investigations." [122]
As Mr. Giuliani worked hard to advance his client's personal and political interests—and not "foreign policy"—President Trump also required United States officials responsible for Ukraine to "talk with Rudy." ”

“ He asked him afterwards for the original papers, which he told him he could not give him, having left them at Padua, upon the advice which Giuliani had given him from him, to take care that the Venetians, who were looking out for him, should not find them in his possession. The Duke of Mantua told him that it was absolutely necessary to break off this affair ”

“ We know definitively what Giuliani was up to because he left a voice message for Senator Tuberville—inadvertently on Senator Lee's phone— recording his request. [307] He wanted for "you, our Republican friends to try to just slow it down," referring to the electoral count, and delay the joint session. [308] Here are his own words:
The only strategy we can follow is to object to numerous States and raise issues so that we get ourselves into tomorrow—ideally until the end of tomorrow. ”

“ And my real concern is, you'll have three leading Democratic candidates, none of which have ever run a city, a state or a business. And this is not – [applause] – this is -- America's at war. America's got some big problems. It's not the time for on-the-job training as an executive.
HUME: Thank you, gentlemen. Let's continue the questioning with my colleague Chris Wallace. Chris?
WALLACE: Thank you, Brit. Good evening, gentlemen. Let's talk about illegal immigration.
Governor Romney, in recent weeks you have gone after Mayor Giuliani for running what you say was a sanctuary city for illegals. ”

“ Giuliani also described President Trump's objective in this effort: "For the president, the way forward is really it's in the hands of the leaders of those legislatures and the Members of Congress, and what our people can do is let them know what they think, and that they're not gonna get away with pushing this aside. That the consequences of turning your back on a massive voter fraud are gonna be dire for them, and historically these people are gonna become enemies of the country." ”

“ Throughout November and December, Bowers spoke to Trump, Giuliani, and members of Giuliani’s legal team, in person or on the phone. During these calls, Trump and others alleged that the results in Arizona were affected by fraud and asked that Bowers consider replacing Presidential electors for Biden with electors for Trump. [249] Bowers demanded proof for the claims of fraud, but never got it. At one point, after Bowers pressed Giuliani on the claims of fraud, Giuliani responded, “we’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence.” ”

“ In the online presentation, Giuliani told the audience there's "nothing wrong with putting pressure on your state legislators" [124] to pick new electors and that "you have got to get them to remember that their oath to the Constitution sometimes requires being criticized. Sometimes it even requires being threatened." [125]
When Giuliani appeared for the hearing in Michigan, he was not placed under oath, used his time to refer to Michigan's election as a "con job," and urged legislators to "have the courage to say that certification that was done by your state is a complete phony." ”

“ Son of Godefroi, Count d’Estrades, long employed in diplomatic negotiations in Holland and appointed a Marshal of France on the death of Turenne.—Trans.
[482] A despatch from Varengeville, ambassador at Venice, to Pomponne, July 1, 1679, given by Delort, states that Giuliani “is a little editor of newspapers, in whose shop the letters of news are written, as it is not the custom here [Venice] to print them. He works at this himself, as well as at copying for the public; and his situation in this town answers to that of the Secretaries of St. Innocent at Paris. ”

“ This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election . . . . We want all voting to stop." [37] And on the morning of November 5th, he tweeted "STOP THE COUNT!" [38] Halting the counting of votes at that point would have violated both State and Federal laws. [39]
According to testimony received by the Select Committee, the only advisor present who supported President Trump's inclination to declare victory was Rudolph Giuliani, who appeared to be inebriated. ”

“ And we know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all of us are in danger.
In our country the courts have a most important role in safeguarding these rights. The decisions of the courts, however much we might disagree with them, in the final analysis must be followed and must be respected. If we disagree with a court decision, and thereafter irresponsibly assail the court and defy its rulings, we challenge the foundations of our society. The Supreme Court of Georgia set forth this proposition quite clearly in 1949 in the case of Krum [ph] versus the State. ”

“ President Trump Directs the Angry Mob at the Capitol to Pressure Vice President Pence.
When President Trump later took the stage at the Ellipse, he heaped praise on Giuliani and Eastman. "He's got guts, unlike a lot of people in the Republican Party," President Trump said of Giuliani. "He's got guts. He fights, he fights." [263] President Trump described Eastman as "one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country." [264] President Trump claimed that Eastman had looked at the election and said, "What an absolute disgrace that this can be happening to our Constitution." ”

“ Yes, that old bride-look—for religion may be so presented to the child's heart as to appear for ever the bride elect of the soul, from whose queenly love promotion may be expected, whose sweet embraces bring a dower of honour, whose beautiful fingers twine a chaplet of grace for the head and set a crown of glory on the brow. ”

“ President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.
(S/NF) The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. ”

“ Less than two weeks after the election, President Trump pushed "Team Normal" aside because its members didn't tell him what he wanted to hear. In their place, Trump promoted Rudy Giuliani and his associates, men and women who spread baseless and extreme claims of election fraud. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, recruited several investigators and lawyers to assist him. [53] Giuliani's team included Jenna Ellis, Bernard Kerik, Boris Epshteyn, Katherine Friess, and Christina Bobb. [54] Ellis functioned as Giuliani's deputy on the new Trump Campaign legal team. ”

“ You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. . . .
And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.... [437]
Trump also was not the only rally speaker to do these things. Mayor Giuliani for instance also said that “Let’s have trial by combat.” ”

“ Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded. ”

“ Hunters hunting with incredible silver guns, skimming along the roads to the hills and the forests in fantastic vehicles, alighting by roadsides and lumbering across fields to timber stands; routing out the people from elms and oaks and maples and locusts and even sumac, flushing them out like rabbits and shooting them down in cold blood with blinding shards of bullets. ”

“ Chesebro contemplated the fake votes being used in Congress without a court or State government adopting, ratifying, or otherwise selecting them as the proper electoral college votes from a contested State. To be fair, Chesebro concludes this email by telling Giuliani that “ [m] any more points would need to be analyzed in making a complete argument that the President of the Senate possesses the sole power to count electoral votes, and anything to the contrary in the Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional.” ”

“ But Giuliano himself did at first worse than nothing, and never did much throughout his life. A man of an undisciplined, wayward, impatient, and explosive temper; selfish and self-indulgent; a lover of obscure and useless, in one instance criminal, squandering of his time, money, health, and affections, he did not deserve the rare woman who had been sold to him; and would possibly indeed have managed to be a better man with a wife he had really loved, or with one of a temperament and outlook more ordinary and nearer to his own. ”

“ But before entering directly into communication with Matthioly, he sent to Verona, where the latter frequently resided, one Giuliani, [482] a perfectly sure man, whom [Pg 260] his occupation of journalist obliged to travel from place to place to collect news, and whose stay at Verona consequently would not excite suspicion. Giuliani had Matthioly watched, and, observing him himself, ascertained his aversion to the Spaniards, from whom he had never received anything but hopes. ”

“ He is held like a bird in the snare, which beats its wings and tries to fly in vain; the soft yielding net will rise and fall with its efforts, but will not suffer it to escape. He cannot flee, for if he should escape those fatal doors, before to-morrow's sun sets he will be seized with an overmastering passion, a craving which is like the gnawing of a vulture at the liver ”