The ex-attorney of former United States President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, was named co-conspirator 1 in the Republican businessman's Georgia election case.
The case involves Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election and remain in power against his opponent, Joe Biden. The indictment in the case asserted that six people helped the former president's plot. None of the individuals were named, but the majority were easily identifiable through details contained in the documents.
Rudy Giuliani as Trump Co-Conspirator
The first is Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and the second is John Eastman, who was the lawyer responsible for the idea that former Vice President Mike Pence could block or delay the certification of Trump's loss on Jan. 6.
The sixth co-conspirator was the one that remained a mystery and was only identified by the indictment as a "political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding," as per the New York Times.
While several people could be pegged as co-conspirators six, a close look at the indictment against Trump and a review of various messages among people who worked under the former president could provide a clue as to the individual's identity.
One email sent in December 2020 from Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser to the Trump campaign that year, to Giuliani, matches a description in the indictment of an interaction between co-conspirator six and the former Trump lawyer.
The recipients of Epshteyn's email were Giuliani and the latter's son, Andrew, and it had the subject line, "Attorneys for Electors Memo." It wrote the names of several attorneys the writer recommended for the memo on choosing electors.
During an interview, Giuliani went on a furious tirade and claimed that Special Counsel Jack Smith should be indicted for indicting Trump. He added that the people behind the efforts are the ones who are lying about the situation, according to the Independent.
Indictment Against Donald Trump
Giuliani's remarks come as he faces a potential disbarment urged by an attorney disciplinary committee. Later, he accused the special counsel of being an "unethical lawyer" and claimed that Smith should have looked for a different career after the Supreme Court threw out his case.
The indictment against the Republican businessman includes four counts of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
The other people named co-conspirators could be identified as attorney Sidney Powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, and Kenneth Chesebro. The first helped lead the former president's post-campaign legal efforts and promoted conspiracy theories. The second was once considered to become Trump's attorney general. And the third allegedly pushed the "fake electors scheme."
The indictment's description of co-conspirator one included a quote that said, "We don't have the evidence, but we have lots of theories." Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers cited a similar statement that was made by Giuliani on the record in the Jan. 6 House Select Committee's fourth public hearing, said NBC News.
