He can’t maintain a straight face.
Rudy Giuliani was all smiles in a mug shot launched by Arizona authorities on Monday after he was processed in reference to allegations he conspired to overturn the 2020 election.
The former New York mayor and onetime private legal professional to Donald Trump pleaded not responsible to 9 felony fees stemming from his position in the plot.
The mug shot was launched round 2 p.m. native time by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Giuliani was launched after posting a $10,000 bond in money. (It was not instantly clear the place Giuliani, who filed for chapter earlier this 12 months, obtained the cash.)
In a broadcast of his live show recorded from Phoenix afterward Monday, Giuliani stated that he’d made “a little visit to the sheriff.
“It’s hard to believe after all my years in law enforcement and serving the government and all the cases I’ve prosecuted successfully, I’ve actually had to report as a defendant in a criminal case, post my $10,000 bond, get fingerprinted—they’re all clean now—and photographed,” he stated, holding his palms as much as the digital camera.
Of all of the Trump allies indicted in the Arizona case, Giuliani was the one one ordered to point out up in particular person and publish bond inside 30 days of his May 21 arraignment. The situations have been imposed on him after Arizona prosecutors bumped into bother monitoring him all the way down to serve him discover of his indictment. He was finally served at his eightieth celebration in Florida final month.
“The agents by no means disrupted his event. They waited to serve him outside as he left,” a spokesman for Kris Mayes, Arizona’s legal professional common, instructed The New York Times on the time.
Rudy Giuliani poses for a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office reserving {photograph}.
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
The different 10 defendants who’ve been arraigned to date have all additionally pleaded not responsible to fees of conspiracy, fraud, and forgery. More are anticipated to be arraigned in the approaching weeks.
The indictment alleges that “America’s Mayor” was amongst a gaggle that schemed to get a slate of so-called alternate electors to falsely declare Trump had defeated President Joe Biden on the Arizona poll field.
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani—the most effective federal prosecutor in U.S. history—will be fully vindicated,” his spokesperson, Ted Goodman, stated in a press release. “This is yet another example of partisan actors weaponizing the criminal justice system to interfere with the 2024 presidential election through outlandish charges against President Trump and anyone willing to take on the permanent Washington political class.”
Trump has not been charged in the Arizona case, however is recognized as an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment. The former president has, nonetheless, been indicted for election interference in Fulton County, Georgia, the place Giuliani additionally faces fees alongside 18 different individuals. Both Giuliani and Trump have pleaded not responsible in that case.
The embattled legal professional’s authorized woes don’t finish there. He can also be on the hook for almost $150 million owed to 2 former Georgia election staff who efficiently argued he defamed them, and is presently being sued for defamation by two voting expertise companies.