About to turn 80, the problems of Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of America who was turned into a hero by the fate of 9/11, worsened this Thursday with the announcement of the Arizona prosecutor, Kris Mayes, to file charges against him. and seventeen other accomplices charged with conspiring to alter the outcome of the 2020 election.
“Some will say that I have not been fast enough and others will criticize me for even doing this investigation,” the prosecutor anticipated in a statement. «But I will not allow American democracy to be undermined. “It's too important,” she said.
Arizona thus becomes the fourth state to file charges related to attempts to alter the November 2020 elections that gave victory to Joe Biden, but only the second, after Georgia, to charge the close team of then-President Donald Trump. (Michigan and Nevada only did this to “false voters.”)
Among the seven Trump advisers who will sit on the bench are former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump's legal strategist Boris Epshteyn. There is also a senior advisor to his campaign, Mike Roman, as well as lawyer John Eastman, author of the strategy to replace the Electoral College electors, who has already lost his license in California as a result, in addition to other lawyers such as Christina Bobb and Jenna Ellis, who participated in the plot. The latter has already pleaded guilty in Georgia, where she cooperates with the Prosecutor's Office.
Two arrests
Among these high-level defendants, Epshteyn is the most vulnerable because he has a record in Arizona, where he has been arrested twice in the last decade: once for a bar fight in 2014 and another in 2021 for inappropriately touching two women. He is still considered a close advisor to the former president, with whom he says he speaks several times a day, and advises his legal team on the best defense for the charges he faces.
Eastman, for his part, was also the one who pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to dispute the election result at the Capitol on January 6 and propose the false pro-Trump electors that his team had recruited. In Arizona nine charges related to falsification of documents and conspiracy to defraud voters.
“Unable to accept the fact that the people of Arizona elected President Biden as president on November 3, 2020, the defendants and their co-conspirators,” including President Trump without being charged, “plotted “a ruse to prevent the legal transfer of the presidency and keep 'unindicted co-conspirator 1' in office, against the will of the voters,” concludes the indictment approved by a grand jury. If he becomes president, Trump could pardon himself for federal crimes and extend that pardon to his followers, but not for the penalties imposed on them in the States.
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