Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said Wednesday that he “sold his soul” to protect former President Trump after Rudy Guiliani was indicted by an Arizona grand jury on charges of involvement in a “fake elector” scheme. He suggested that it may have been.
In an interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Cobb reflected on the newly unsealed indictment against a group of other Trump allies and Guiliani, who has become Trump’s lawyer, in 2020. Valid electors for the state in December.
Among those indicted is Boris Epshteyn, a longtime adviser to President Trump, who Cobb noted remains “very much” in Trump’s “inner circle.”
“And he was very protective of the former president, so defensive that it’s no exaggeration to say that Mr. Giuliani sold his soul to protect the president under inappropriate circumstances.”
An Arizona grand jury indictment charges seven Trump aides and 11 pro-Trump Arizona Republicans with allegedly trying to block the legitimate transfer of power from President Trump to President Biden after the 2020 election. are doing.
The 18 defendants raise false claims of election fraud in an effort to pressure Arizona elections officials to overturn Biden’s narrow victory in the state by just over 10,000 votes. He is accused of carrying out the plan.
“The people of Arizona and the United States elected Joseph Biden as President on November 3, 2020,” the indictment states.
“Unwilling to accept this fact, the defendant and his unindicted co-conspirators are using the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep unindicted co-conspirator 1 in office, against the will of Arizona voters. “They plotted to prevent this,” he continued, referring to Trump. “This plan would deprive Arizona voters of their right to vote and have their votes counted.”
Trump himself has not been indicted, but is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Guiliani, Epshtein, and the other five defendants are not named in the indictment, but the indictment’s descriptions reveal their identity and that of other defendants, including Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. has become clear. Lawyer John Eastman was involved in Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Christina Bobb is also a lawyer for Trump and currently works for the Republican National Committee. and Mike Roman, the 2020 Trump campaign’s election day operations manager.
The latest indictment makes Arizona the fourth state to indict a group of Trump-supporting electors, joining Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.
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