Giuliani Won’t Represent Trump at Impeachment Trial After All
“President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer won’t be part of the defense team in the Senate trial for his second impeachment. Giuliani, who has been leading the president’s failed efforts to prove baseless claims of voter fraud, said he wouldn’t represent Trump because he was involved in the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the riot at the Capitol. “Because I gave an earlier speech [at the rally], I am a witness and therefore unable to participate in court or in the Senate chamber,” Giuliani told ABC News.
Giuliani issued a statement saying he “may be a witness” and that means “the rules of legal ethics would prohibit me from representing the president as trial counsel in the impeachment trial.” At the Jan. 6 rally, Giuliani fired up the crowd by calling for “trial by combat.” He later defended those words by saying they were a reference to the television show Game of Thrones.
The announcement comes after a bit of back-and-forth over the weekend. Giuliani had said he was working on the president’s defense and said he was ready to argue the president’s case. Giuliani said there were disagreements about how Trump should be defended but said that he wanted to argue the validity of voter fraud allegations. But Trump’s team had other ideas and a spokesman quickly tweeted out a statement saying the president had yet to decide “which lawyer or law firm” would represent him.“
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