We can’t say whether it was touch and go for a while. But thankfully, Rudy Giuliani managed to make it to Atlanta safely on Wednesday, where a special grand jury is convening to investigate his alleged involvement in efforts to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani’s legal team tried to convince a judge that he couldn't travel via plane due to a “recent invasive procedure” following a “complex artery diagnosis.” But Judge Robert C.I. McBurney sided with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who reasoned that if Giuliani could plan travel to Rome, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland, he could make it to Georgia. And make it to Georgia he did, just before 8:30 AM ET.
As he walked from car to courthouse, he refused to answer reporters’ questions about whether he lied to lawmakers or whether he believes former President Donald Trump is the target of the investigation.
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“I’m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation until I know more about it,” Giuliani said.
He arrived in a black Yukon Denali with attorney Robert Costello and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Vernon Jones, according to The New York Times.
Answering a question about what the former New York City mayor and personal attorney to Trump thinks the grand jury will ask about, Giuliani said:
“They’ll ask the questions, and we’ll see.”
He will be questioned about what prosecutors described as “a multistate, coordinated plan by the Trump campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” the Times reported.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was also ordered to appear before the special grand jury and took to trying to hide behind his status. “This weaponization of the law needs to stop,” Graham said. “So I will use the courts. We will go as far as we need to go, and do whatever needs to be done, to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you.”
Willis assured the public that she had an opposite goal in mind when she talked about her plan to subpoena people in Trump’s inner circle during an NBC News interview last month. “People also seem to think that in society that there are certain people that are immune from prosecution—if you are a celebrity, if you are a high-ranking public official,” she said. “I guess that there is something strange with me. Lady Justice is actually blind.”
Willis, the first Black woman to serve as Fulton County district attorney, said in another portion of the interview:
“We’ll just have to see where the investigation leads us, but I think that people thought that we came into this as some kind of game. This is not a game at all.
“What I am doing is very serious. It’s very important work, and we’re going to do our due diligence in making sure that we look at all aspects of the case.”
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