(21 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
POOL
Phoenix – 21 May 2024
1. Med of prosecutors in 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."
2. Screen inside courtroom showing virtual call display
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Phoenix – 21 May 2024
SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Klingerman, Prosecutor, Arizona Attorney General’s Office:
"I think, I think his comment speaks for itself to the, to the judge, was fairly defiant, called this an embarrassment to the justice system."
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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.”
The judge required Giuliani to post a secured appearance bond of $10,000 as well as appear in Arizona within the next 30 days for booking procedures.
Former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and at least 11 other people were also arraigned Tuesday for conspiracy, forgery and fraud charges in a Phoenix courtroom. She and nine others have so far pleaded not guilty. Her trial date is set for Oct. 17, about 3 weeks before the U.S. election.
Arizona authorities unveiled the felony charges last month against Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Trump, a Republican, had won Arizona. The defendants include five lawyers connected to the former president and two former Trump aides. Biden, a Democrat, won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes.
The indictment alleges Ward, a former state senator who led the GOP in Arizona from 2019 until early 2023, organized the fake electors and urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to declare them to be the state’s true electors. It says Ward failed to withdraw her vote as a fake elector even though no legal challenges changed the outcome of the presidential race in Arizona.
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