Giuliani Turns Himself In on Georgia 2020 Election Charges After Bond Is Set at $150,000

TIME

Rudy Giuliani turned himself in at a jail in Atlanta on Wednesday on charges related to efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

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00:00 [Police sirens]

00:05 Who paid for your jet down here?

00:07 No comment.

00:08 Sir, do you regret attaching your name to the board of presidents?

00:14 I am very, very honored to be involved in this case.

00:20 Because this case is a fight for our way of life.

00:25 This indictment is a travesty.

00:28 It's an attack on not just me, not just President Trump,

00:32 not just the people in this indictment, some of whom I don't even know.

00:37 This is an attack on the American people.

00:40 This can happen to me, who is probably the most prolific prosecutor,

00:46 maybe in American history, and the most effective mayor for sure.

00:50 It can happen to you.

00:52 And the reality is...

00:54 I'm sorry, don't interrupt me, I'm making a statement.

00:58 If they can do this to me, they can do this to you.

01:01 Remember, three years ago, the FBI raided my apartment and my law office.

01:06 And they investigated me for two and a half years.

01:10 Twenty years of my life they investigated.

01:13 And they wrote a letter to the grand jury that they couldn't find a single crime.

01:18 So that should have pretty much cleared me, huh, don't you think?

01:21 Except for this ridiculous case in which I'm being prosecuted for defending an American citizen,

01:32 who I do as a lawyer, and five other lawyers are indicted.

01:38 That should tell you right away that this is an assault on our Constitution.

01:44 Fannie Willis will go down in American history

01:48 as having conducted one of the worst attacks on the American Constitution ever.

01:52 When this case is dismissed, she has violated people's First Amendment right

01:57 to advocate the government, to petition the government for grievances.

02:01 Like an election they believe was poorly conducted or falsely conducted.

02:05 People have a right to believe that in America.

02:09 Biden and the Biden state doesn't have a right to tell you what the truth is.

02:14 And number two, number two, and I will tell you, if you need to know what this is all about,

02:23 the FBI stole my iCloud account.

02:27 And you know when they went and stole it?

02:29 The day that I began representing Donald Trump four years ago.

02:33 You know when they gave it back? The day after I represented Donald Trump.

02:37 So for all that time, the federal government was spying on Donald Trump and his lawyer.

02:46 I am being indicted because I'm a lawyer, as is Professor and everyone else.

02:52 [crowd shouting]

02:57 By the way, you're wrong. I didn't do that.

02:59 I entered into a stipulation for the purposes of that case to move on.

03:04 It specifically says I do not in any way admit the truth of those allegations.

03:09 Those allegations are totally false.

03:11 [crowd shouting]

03:14 That is absolutely wrong and you're lying, as you often do.

03:19 If you read it, it says it was only for the purposes of that case and it was not an admission.

03:23 [crowd shouting]

03:31 [crowd shouting]

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