'I'd do it again': Rudy Giuliani says he's proud of the actions that got him indicted
Rudy Giuliani, onetime personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, dismissed the charges against him in Georgia (JEFF Kowalsky/AFP)
January 25, 2024
Rudy Giuliani feels he should be praised, not persecuted.
The cash-strapped former New York City mayor, who as Trump's attorney has been hit with a barrage of legal and financial sagas for allegedly trying to publicly flip the result of the 2020 election from President Joe Biden, is making it clear he has zero regrets.
"I'd do it all over again," he said on his "America's Mayor Live" show on Twitter/X. "Every step."
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Because I look at the mirror at night.... if I can be happy with myself that day that I did what God wanted me to do and served my country — I'm a happy man. I say to myself 'My father would be proud of me.'"
Since Donald Trump was defeated four years ago, Giuliani's been charged in Georgia state criminal court with racketeering for subverting the results of the 2020 election, slapped with a defamation lawsuit brought by two voting machine manufacturers, and must pay $146 million in damages for slandering a mother and daughter as frauds when serving as Georgia election workers.
He filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a week later.
Taking stock in himself, Giuliani rhetorically asked — seemingly shifting the audience to speaking directly to Biden at times: "Do I believe [Trump] was legitimately elected? Like hell I do!"
"And you destroyed my life because of that because I had that belief. That sincere belief."
Giuliani maintains he was being a loyal lawyer.
"...I represented a man who had that sincere belief and as a lawyer, even if I didn't have it, I have to represent him based on giving him the benefit of the doubt."
He questioned why he is being singled out for doing his esquire duty when others are much more morally challenged such as those who defend terrorists.
"You don't put them in jail," he said.
"And try to take my profession away?"
To correct this, he made clear: "I'm not a rat and I don't back down to crooked politicians."
He rattled off his good works over the years including jailing "crooked politicians" along with "Nazis and terrorists, and crooked Wall Street people and Mafia people."
Giuliani then lamented being on the other side of the legal system facing "damn crooked prosecutors" and "your Attorney General whose a disgrace to the Justice Department."
He vowed to keep on the Biden offensive until he's gone. "So I will devote every ounce I have to get you then hell out of the White House because you're stinking up the White House and disgracing my country. Enough."