Reports at the end of last month that former President Donald Trump's top ally Rudy Giuliani met with special counsel Jack Smith have fueled speculation that the former New York City mayor and alleged election coup plotter could be on the verge of accepting a deal to cooperate against the former president.
But not so fast, reported The Daily Beast on Tuesday: sources close to Giuliani are adamantly denying that this is the case.
“Any speculation that Mayor Rudy Giuliani ‘flipped’ against President Donald Trump is as false as previous lies that America’s Mayor was somehow a Russian Agent,” said Giuliani political adviser Ted Goodman, in a media statement reported by Erik Uebelacker. “In order to ‘flip’ on President Trump — as so many in the anti-Trump media are fantasizing over — Mayor Giuliani would've had to commit perjury because all the information he has regarding this case points to President Trump's innocence.”
This echoes previous claims from Giuliani's attorney, Robert Costello, who also denied such a deal was in the works.
Giuliani, whose counsel says they don't expect him to receive a target letter in the January 6 investigation, was reportedly involved in White House discussions over outlandish and illegal ideas to overturn the 2020 election results, including the military seizure of voting machines — which Giuliani reportedly rejected as an idea, even as other Trump associates like Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn pushed it aggressively.
Despite this, Giuliani still played a key role in pushing false conspiracy theories about the election, and a disciplinary panel in D.C. has recommended he be disbarred as punishment.
