(21 May 2024)
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Phoenix – 21 May 2024
1. Med of prosecutors for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office in courtroom UPSOUND (English) Judge speaking to Rudy Giuliani:
"All right, Mr. Giuliani, as I said, you’re here before on counts one through nine, we’ll enter a not guilty plea on your behalf to each allegation."
(Rudy Giuliani: "Yeah")
"We’ll set your next court hearing for an initial pretrial conference."
2. Screen shot of a social media post from Giuliani’s social media account showing a picture of Giuliani’s 80th birthday celebration displayed in a courtroom monitor
3. Monitor inside courtroom UPPSOUND (English) Rudy Giuliani, former attorney:
"The reason for the difficulty to get up to my apartment in New York is, it’s a 10 story apartment building. I have a fair number of threats, including death threats. And, I don’t have security any longer since I’ve been in bankrupt. So I have, so I have very, very strict rules about who gets up and doesn’t."
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4. Screen inside courtroom UPPSOUND (English) Rudy Giuliani, former attorney:
"I’ve been, I’ve been indicted in, in Georgia and appeared on every occasion. I’ve been sued, I’ve been sued about 20 to 25 times by a very, very similar movement to this one, which is the, ‘let’s see what we can do to destroy Donald Trump movement’."
(Judge: "Okay, give me just a moment, okay, sir, sir.")
"I do consider this indictment, I do consider this indictment a complete embarrassment to the American legal system, but I’ve shown no tendency not to comply. I show up for every court appearance, and they must have been about 20 to 30 of them. There is no history of my being, which is the basis for the bail."
(Judge: "Alright sir, I think I understand your position.")
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Phoenix – 21 May 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Klingerman, Prosecutor, Arizona Attorney General’s Office:
"I think, I think his comment speaks for itself to the, to the judge. He was fairly defiant, called this an embarrassment to the justice system."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Klingerman, Prosecutor, Arizona Attorney General’s Office:
"It’s absolutely not politically motivated. This case went before an independent grand jury who chose to issue indictments."
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STORYLINE:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine felony charges stemming from his role in an effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Arizona to Joe Biden.
Giuliani appeared remotely for the arraignment that was held in a Phoenix courtroom. His trial will take place in October.
During his remote appearance, Giuliani said he did not have an attorney at this time but will.
Giuliani said he received a summons but did not have a copy of the indictment. He said he is familiar with the charges, though, by reading about them.
Arizona authorities tried unsuccessfully over several weeks to serve Giuliani notice of the indictment against him. Giuliani was finally served Friday night as he was walking to a car after his 80th birthday celebration in Florida.
On Tuesday, in response to the prosecutors request for a $10,000 cash bond after outlining the difficulty in serving Giuliani in the case, Giuliani said: “I have a fair number of threats including death threats, and I don’t have security anymore …so I have very strict rules about who gets up and who doesn’t.”
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