'For what?' Rudy Giuliani befuddled because Trump 'never mentioned' giving him a pardon

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani insisted that he was surprised after learning that President Donald Trump had pardoned him for crimes related to trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"When I woke up this morning and someone told me I was pardoned, I said, 'For what?'" Giuliani explained on his Monday night Lindell TV program. "I thought I insulted somebody last night."

"I talk to the president, and I've talked to him during this period of time," he continued. "He's never mentioned it to me. I had no idea this was going to happen. I didn't ask for it. Definitely didn't ask for it."

Giuliani said that he had discussed other pardons with Trump while acting as his attorney.

"And, you know, he was thinking about pardoning and a lot of people, including his children," he recalled.

Giuliani said that he was more concerned about the Trump supporters who were facing crimes for participating in a scheme to overturn the election using fake electors.

"All these people, all these people, not big, big shots like me, but all these people get indicted," he said. "Lives ruined by those anti-American, communist leaning."

"If you said to me, you got a choice, I'll give you a pardon. I'll give all those people that, you know, acted as electors pardons. I say, give it to them," he remarked. "At this point, at this point, thank you, Mr. President. I am in no way being ungrateful for the pardon."

"I don't need it anymore. What are you going to take an 81-year-old man, and put him in jail? I don't know. I probably have more friends in jail. I make friends easily."

Despite the presidential pardon, Giuliani still faces criminal charges in Arizona in connection with the "fake electors" plot.

The Arizona attorney general's office told ABC News that Trump's recent pardons "will have no impact on the state's case."