Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states as a member of former president Donald Trump’s legal team, was interviewed by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel’s office.
Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani, confirmed he met with the special counsel and that his appearance before them was “entirely voluntary and conducted in a professional manner,” Ted Goodman said in a statement.
A source familiar with the matter and insisting on anonymity said the interview was not done before a grand jury and would not reveal what was asked.
As a lawyer for the president, Giuliani pushed unfounded legal challenges to the 2020 election result, which had Joe Biden decisively defeat the incumbent Trump in several key states. The legal team filed lawsuits in these battleground states raising unsupported claims of massive election fraud. This was despite the fact that top officials, like Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, said that such allegations were bogus.
This is not the first time Giuliani has been a figure in inquiries related to Trump. He was interviewed last year by a House committee that investigated the prelude to the January 6th attack and by prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, who have been looking into efforts to subvert that state’s election.
