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Rudy Giuliani and 10 others pleaded not guilty Tuesday in an Arizona court to charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The former New York City mayor was also ordered held on $10,000 bail last week for evading the state's efforts to subpoena him.
Giuliani received the indictment Friday at an 80th birthday party thrown by Republican activists in Palm Beach, Florida. Arizona prosecutors spent weeks searching for Giuliani, eventually finding him through his podcast.
An Arizona grand jury last month indicted more than a dozen supporters of Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, including false electors and several people associated with the Trump campaign. It was decided that this included.
In addition to Giuliani, 10 other defendants also entered not guilty pleas on Tuesday. Of these, he appeared virtually for four and in person for six. The list includes Christina Bobb, a Trump ally who is now the Republican National Committee's top election integrity lawyer. Former Trump campaign aide Mike Roman. former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Kerry Ward;
Former Trump lawyer John Eastman pleaded not guilty last week.
Six people are scheduled to attend next month, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn and former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis.
Trump is not among those indicted in Arizona, but details in the indictment suggest he is “unindicted co-conspirator 1.”
Prosecutor Nicholas Clingerman asked for a $10,000 cash bond with the condition that Mr. Giuliani report to Arizona within a month for the proceedings, telling the judge that Mr. “We failed to make contact or cooperate.”
“At the time, there were two agents in Florida working for Mr. Giuliani, sitting outside the party and waiting to see if he was going to leave,” Klingerman said of Mr. Giuliani's birthday party. .
That night, Giuliani tweeted that the charges would have to be dropped “if Arizona authorities can't find me by tomorrow morning.” An hour after the post, officers saw him leaving the party and responded, Klingerman said.
“I'm not hiding from anybody,” Giuliani told the judge during Tuesday's hearing.
“I've received quite a few threats…Now that I'm bankrupt, I'm not safe anymore. So I have very specific rules,” Giuliani said, adding that in this apartment in New York, agents provide services. I explained why I couldn't do it.
Giuliani claimed that there were attempted assaults on him in France and the Netherlands, and said the cash bond “would be purely punitive.”
“I consider this indictment to be a complete disgrace to the American legal system. But I have shown no inclination whatsoever to disobey,” Giuliani said, adding that “a movement very similar to this one, viz. “It has been sued many times by the 'Let's see what we can do to destroy Donald Trump' movement,” he added. ”
Giuliani told the judge he didn't have a lawyer and claimed he could handle the arraignment himself “aside from the fact that I don't have a copy of the indictment,” and the judge reminded him that he could handle the arraignment himself. I offered to give them my email address before pressing the button. He was appearing in open court.
“Yeah,” Giuliani said.
This story has been updated with additional details.
