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'I just repeated what I was told': Court filings claim Giuliani didn't vet allegations he made about election fraud

Rudy Giuliani admitted in testimony that he ”just repeated what I was told” when he made election fraud claims against two Georgia workers, new court filings reveal.

The filings involving a defamation lawsuit filed against former President Donald Trump’s ex-attorney also reveal that other promoters of election fraud claims failed to do basic checks on the accuracy of what they were saying, CNN reported.

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Michigan secretary of state interviewed by Jack Smith: report

Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was interviewed by United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's office "for several hours" amid the criminal investigation into the scheme to reverse the results of the 2020 election, CNN's Zachary Cohen exclusively reported on Wednesday.

Benson's conversation with Smith's lieutenants "marks yet another recent meeting between prosecutors and officials from key battleground states that were targeted by former President Donald Trump and his allies as part of their bid to upend Joe Biden's legitimate victory in the 2020 presidential election," Cohen learned from people "familiar with the matter."

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Defamed Georgia election workers push for 'severe sanctions' against Rudy Giuliani

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers who were falsely accused of committing election fraud by former President Donald Trump and his allies, are pushing for former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to face "severe sanctions."

In a new court filing flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, attorneys representing Freeman and Moss argue that Giuliani deserves punishment for his failure to produce key evidence in their defamation lawsuit against him.

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Fani Willis hints at August Trump indictment as grand jury convened

Despite already facing a total of 71 criminal counts — 37 in special counsel Jack Smith's federal Mar-a-Lago case, 34 in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.'s case in New York State — former President Donald Trump may be up against even more criminal charges if an investigation by Fulton County DA Fani Willis leads to a state indictment in Georgia.

Willis has been probing Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, which is also the focus of a separate and broader probe being conducted by Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). It remains to be seen whether either case will lead to an indictment, but according to CBS News reporters Graham Kates and Nikole Killion, Georgia residents selected as grand jurors on Tuesday, July 11 "may soon consider charges against Trump."

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Mike Pence now considered a RINO because the GOP has moved so far to the right — and that's bad news for Pence

Mike Pence ticks off all the boxes a staunch conservative would have wanted from a Republican presidential candidate in almost any other period in modern American political history.

But Jonathan V. Last writes for The Bulwark that amid a realigned political landscape, yesterday’s Reagan acolyte is today’s RINO.

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'Brutal': Rudy Giuliani mocked after blistering takedown from the D.C. Bar Association

Slate's Jeremy Stahl wrote Monday that the Washington, D.C. Bar Association hasn't been as kind as New York when it comes to Rudy Giuliani.

Two years ago, New York suspended the former federal prosecutor and so-called "America's Mayor" from ever practicing law. But now, Giuliani is being recommended for disbarment after the three-member panel voted unanimously to stop Giuliani from his ability to practice law. Now that their full report is being released, it reveals the methodology behind the decision in a blistering takedown.

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Giuliani uses debunked election claim to defend law license

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended his law license on Monday by continuing to insist on the false claim that mail-in ballots were used to steal the 2020 election.

In an interview on Monday, podcaster Steve Bannon noted Giuliani was facing the loss of his law license in New York and Washington, D.C. after he promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election while working as an attorney for then-President Donald Trump.

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Potential 'criminal intent' in Sidney Powell's plot to seize voting machines

Special counsel Jack Smith is reportedly looking into former President Donald Trump's interest in seizing voting machines as part of his effort to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Investigators want to know whether the former president chose to buy into baseless claims by Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn that alleged problems with the voting machines as a pretext to send the election back to Republican-controlled state governments, reported CBS News correspondent Robert Costa.

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Hunter Biden's lawyer claims he has proof J6 masterminds also 'fabricated' laptop lies

Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (VA) has joined the legal team for Hunter Biden, similar to what he did for the Jan. 6 committee in exploring the tech pieces of the conspiracies that the GOP has pushed for the past three years.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday, Riggleman explained he has been working on the "technical and analytical report compared to phone forensics" as it pertains to the infamous laptop. "And I've been tracking data over the past two years."

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Legal expert lists off Trump allies 'in the crosshairs' based on omissions from the J6 grand jury witness list

Reacting to a new report from NBC on the multitude of witnesses special counsel Jack Smith summoned to testify before a grand jury looking into the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted some glaring omissions of close Trump associates who were not included.

As she explained to MSNBC host Alex Witt, those people are likely in the Department of Justice's "crosshairs."

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'You're too stupid!' Rudy Giuliani slams his radio listeners over White House cocaine 'cover-up'

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said only "stupid" people believe that the White House is not covering up the origins of a small amount of cocaine found last weekend.

"Biden never tells the truth. It's almost useful when they say something when somebody like that little lying press secretary that he has, the one who's now given us three different places [for] the cocaine," he said on Sunday. "I mean, they're a mouthpiece — they're a mouthpiece for the crooked White House. How can you possibly say the day after that you just found out about the crime that's not — you're not going to solve it...Can you imagine if there's a murder this morning, and the acting police commissioner shows up and says let me think about this? This may never be solved."

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'He is the man': Watergate prosecutor explains who could doom Trump in election probe

There is likely one man at the center of Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and he has already testified before the grand jury, according to Watergate lawyer Nick Ackerman.

Ackerman appeared on CNN Friday night, when he was asked which of the Trump world "players" he thought Smith would be "most interested in." Ackerman previously said Rudy Giuliani's voluntary interview could spell trouble for Trump.

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Trump's attorney-client privilege waiver is big win for Jack Smith: legal expert

Donald Trump’s decision to waive attorney-client privilege in a Washington D.C.-based bar discipline committee’s investigation of Rudy Giuliani has cleared an obstacle for special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of allegations the former president tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a prominent legal expert said Friday.

The disciplinary panel recommended that Giuliani be disbarred over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in his role as Trump's lawyer, Politico reports. The D.C. Court of Appeals will determine the former New York City mayor’s fate.

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